PIGEON. 83 



tail coverts rufous cinnamon, tipped with white j thigh feathers 

 yellow, and covering great part of the shins ; legs orange. 



Inhabits Africa, the above specimen brought from Angola. 



106— GREAT-CROWNED PIGEON. 



Columba coronata, Ind. Orn. ii. 596. Lin. i. 282. Gm. Lin. i. 774. Pallas, Ad. 78. 



Mill. III. t. 16. A. 

 Columba mugiens, Scop. i. 179. 



Phasianus cristatus Indicus, Bris. i. 279. t. 26. f. 1. Id. Svo. i. 78. 

 Faisan couronne des Indes, Buf. iii. 354. 542. PI. enl. 118. Sonnin. Buf. vii. 253. 

 Colombi Hocco, Levail. Afr. vi. p. 107. pi. 280. 



Colombi-galline, Goura, Temm. Pig.fol. pl.l. Id. Svo.i. 377. Son. Voy. 169. pi. 104. 

 Kronvogel, Naturf. xvii. S. 32. Id. xix. 88. 

 Great-crowned Pigeon, Gen. Syn. iv. 620. Edw. pi. 338. Damp. Voy. iii. pt.2. 93. 



pi. 3. Staunt. Chin. i. 249. Penn. Outl. iv. 217. Nat. Misc. pi. 457. 



SIZE of a Turkey ; length more than two feet. Bill black, two 

 inches long; from the base a streak of black through the eyes, 

 continuing a little behind ; irides red ; head, breast, and all beneath 

 cinereous blue ; head feathers near five inches long, the webs of a 

 very loose texture, forming a beautiful crest; and as some are much 

 shorter, when erected, it appears Hat on the sides, and rounded in 

 shape; upper parts of the body deep ash-colour, with a mixture of 

 purplish chesnut on the upper part of the back and scapulars ; at 

 the bend of the wing a horny excrescence ; the lesser wing coverts 

 deep ash-colour, tipped with purplish chestnut; the greater ones, 

 nearest the body, ash-coloured within, white on the outsides, and 

 tipped as the others, the white occupying more space on the outside 

 than within ; the greater wing coverts, farthest from the body, ash- 

 coloured within, and purplish chestnut on the outsides and tips ; the 

 quills deep blackish ash-colour; tail the same, but pale ash-colour 

 at the tip ; legs blackish, or ash-colour, in some spotted with red. 



The female has the crest smaller, otherwise does not differ from 



the male. 



M 2 



