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of course been followed by the German and English ornitho- 
logists of the new school, who appear to consider themselves 
bound to acknowledge every genus proposed, from whatever 
quarter, or however minute and variable the characters on 
which it is based. 
WHITE-CROWNED PIGEON. (Columba leucocephala.) 
PLATE XVII.—Fia. 1. 
Columba leucocephala, Linn. Syst. i. p. 281, sp. 14.—Gimel. Syst. i. p. 772, sp. 
14.—Lath. Ind. p. 594, sp. 5.—Temm. Ind. Col. in Hist. Pig. et Gall. i. p. 
459.—Vieill. Gal. Ois. ii. p. 331, pl. 194.—Columba minor leucocoryphas, 
Raii, Syn. p. 63, sp. 16, and p. 184, sp. 24.—Klein, Av. p. 120, sp. 18.— 
Columba saxatilis, Jamaicensis, Briss. Orn. i. p. 187, sp. 33; Id. 8vo, i. p. 
34.—Columba capite albo, the White-crowned Pigeon, Catesby, Car. i. p. 
25, pl. 25.—Seligman, Saml. Selt. Vog. 2, col. plate.—Le Pigeon de Roche 
de la Jamaique, Buff. Ois. ii. p. 529.—Sonn. Buff. vii. p. 216.—Colombe a 
calotte blanche, Vem. Hist. Pig. et Gall. i. p. 204; Id. folio, pl. 18 of the 
second family.—IMy Collection.—Edinburgh College Muscum. 
COLUMBA LEUCOCEPHALA.—LINNAUS. 
Columba leucocephala, Bonap. Synop. p. 119. 
Tus bird has been already alluded to in our first volume, 
when pointing out the difference between it and the new 
Columba fasciata of Say. We were then far from supposing 
that we should so soon have to become its historian; but 
having ascertained that it inhabits Florida, as well as the 
West Indies, we are enabled to give it a place in these pages, 
A glance at the plate will now render the difference strikingly 
obvious to the American student, who will thus perceive, better 
than can be explained by words, how entirely distinct the above- 
named species is from the present. 
The white-crowned pigeon, well known as an inhabitant of 
Mexico and the West Indies, is likewise found in great numbers 
on some of the Florida keys, such as Key Vacas, and others, 
early in spring, where it feeds almost exclusively on a kind of 
wild fruit, usually called beach-plum, and some few berries 
of a species of palmetto, that appears to be peculiar to those 
keys. It is also extensively spread in Jamaica and St Domingo, 
