﻿6m PIGEON, 



the eggs j and he fuppofed it was from this caufe alone that there 

 was no produce. 



They are faid to be kept by fome, in the Eaft Indies, in their 

 court-yards, -as domeftic poultry. 



The Dutch at the Moluccas call them Crown-Vogel*. 



M. Sonnerat, as well as Damper, found thefe in plenty at New 

 Guinea ; and it is probable that they were originally tranfported 

 from that place into Banda, from whence the Dutch chiefly now 

 procure them. 



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LESSER- ^ e R° u l° u l de Malacca, Son. Voy. Ind. vol. ii. p. 174. pi. 100. 



CROWNED P. 



Dxscription. Q I Z E of the Common Pigeon. The bill is conical, a little bent j 

 the colour of it black ; the under mandible yellow at the 

 . bafe : irides yellow : the head and neck are black : on the fore- 

 head are fix very long black briftly hairs which ftand upright, or 

 may be lowered at will : at the back part of the head is a creft of 

 a gilded red colour ; the feathers which compofe it are rather 

 hard and ftifF, and the webs not united with each other : between 

 the two crefts the fpace is white, forming a band acrofs the 

 head : the eyes are encircled with white ftifF feathers : the breaft 

 and belly of a beautiful deep violet : the letter wing coverts are 

 brown ; the others, and lefTer quills, rufous white, crofTed with 

 undulated black lines: the greater quills are rufous, marked 

 acrofs as the others : the back, rump, and tail, are deep green ; 

 the latter Ihort, and carried horizontally : the legs yellow : the 

 toes are feparated to the origin ; but the hind toe wants a 

 -claw. 



* By the natives they are called Bululu 5 by the Papuans, Manitbi. 



Lev. 



