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brown, with a light reddiih tinge : the tail blue, terminated by a 

 fmall band of white. 

 Place and This is found in the favannas of Jamaica, in the month of 



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January ; perhaps in its paffage to fome other parts. Feeds on 

 berries : accounted good food, being lefs bitter than the White- 

 crowned Pigeon. It makes a mournful noife on the trees through 

 the whole ifiand, and fometimes very loud and difagreeable. 



+- GREAT- Columba ccronata, Lin. Syj}. i. p. 282. 17. 



CROWNED P. mugiens, Scop, ann.'x. N° 179. 



Le Faifan couronne des Indes, Brif. orn. i. p. 279. 6. pi, 26. f. i.—Buf. oif, 



ii. p. 354. 542. — Pl.enl. 118. 

 Le Goura de la Nouvelle Guinee, Son. Voy. p. 169. t. 104. 

 Great-crowned Indian Pigeon, Edixi. pi. 338. — Damp. Voy, vol. iii, p'. 2. 

 p. 93. pi. 3. 



Br. Muf. Lev. Muf. 



Description. Q I Z E of a Turkey. The bill is black, and two inches long ; 

 from the bafe of this pafTes a ftreak of black through the 

 eyes, and a little way behind : the irides are red : the head, neck, 

 breaft, belly, fides, thighs, and under tail coverts, cinereous blue: 

 the head is crefted ; the feathers which compofe it are four inches 

 and three quarters in length, and of the fame colour, but the 

 webs are of a loofe texture : the back, rump, fcapulars, and upper 

 tail coverts, are of a deep afh-colour, with a mixture of purplifh. 

 chefnut on the upper part of the back and fcapulars : the lefTer 

 coverts of the wings are alfo deep afh-colour, tipped wichpurplifh 

 chefnut ; the greater ones, neareft the body, afh-coloured within, 

 white on the outfide, and tipped as the others, this laft colour 

 occupying more fpace on the outfide than on the inner; the 



greater 



