32 PIGEON. 



In some specimens the forehead is buff-colour, nearly white; chin 

 the same, passing under the eye ; but in others the whole face is 

 brown, with a dark streak through the eye; probably this may arise 

 from difference of sex. 



Inhabits Norfolk Island, also various parts of New-Holland ; very 

 common in the neighbourhood of Sydney Cove, and Botany Bay ; 

 frequents the sand hills, and all desert or burnt grounds, and a 

 sportsman can kill often six brace in a day during their stay, which 

 is from September to February ; but from February to September 

 rarely one is seen ; for although they may be said not actually to 

 migrate, they certainly shift their quarters at different seasons. They 

 make a nest on the ground, very slight, and open ; sometimes on the 

 stump of a tree, laying two eggs, and hatch in November. Feed on 

 fruits, chiefly on a sort of cherry, the stones of which are often found 

 in their stomachs ; for the most part are seen in pairs, and have a 

 loud kind of cooing note, which at a distance may be mistaken for 

 the lowing of a cow. Is called by the natives, Goadgang ; by the 

 English, Brush Pigeon, and Ground Pigeon, from being mostly 

 seen on the ground, or low bushes. Its body is heavy, and it is 

 unable to take long flights. 



29.— GOLD-WINGED PIGEON. 



LENGTH ten inches. Bill almost an inch long, and black ; 

 forehead, as far as the middle of the crown, yellowish white; close 

 to the bill nearly yellow ; between that and the eye a slender black 

 line ; sides round the eyes white, passing to the hindhead, and there 

 curving somewhat downward ; chin white ; fore part of the neck and 

 breast pale purplish red ; from thence to the vent, reddish white; on 

 each side of the neck, from the under jaw, a fillet of pale blue grey, 

 dividing the pale brown of the hind part of the neck, from the 

 breast; the general colour of the plumage, on the upper parts, pale 



