WATTLED GOURA. 



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differs in the colours being less brilliant, and in 

 the pointed feathers of the neck being shorter ; 

 she is also destitute of the caruncle at the base of 

 the beak. Inhabits the Moluccas, and other of 

 the Indian islands. 



This bird has a great affinity to those of the 

 genus Columba, but may be readily distinguished 

 from them by the form of the beak and other parts, 

 as detailed in the generic character : its manners 

 too are totally different ; it lives on the ground, 

 and subsists upon fruits. 



WATTLED GOURA. 



(Goiira carunculata.) 



Go. cana y fmnte et caruncula gutturali rubris, ventre abdominc 

 uropygioque albis, cauddfuscd pennis exterioribus albo margin- 

 atis^ (Femina frontem non habet nudum nec carunculum gut- 

 turalem.) 



Hoary Goura, with the forehead and wattle on the throat redj 

 the belly, abdomen, and rump white, the tail brown, its 

 exterior feathers edged with white. (Female without the 

 naked space on the forehead, or wattles on the throat.) 



Columba carunculata. Te^nm, Pig. Ind. p. 496. 



Colombi-Galline a barbillon. Temm. Pig. (8vo.) p. 415. 



Le Colombi-Galline. Le Vaill. Ois. d'Jfriq. 6. p. 278. 



According to Le Vaillant, this species, in com- 

 mon with the others of the genus, builds its nest 



