THE CUSHAT DOVE. 
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These nutmeg pigeons are beautifully coloured, as are 
many of the exotic species. 
As illustrations of the family, we figure the Ptilinopus 
stropJiium and Columha omenta (Plate XIY. fig. 2 and 3). 
The first-mentioned is a pretty dove with a pink forehead 
and broad cream-coloured pectoral band ; it was found by 
Mr. Macgillivray on the Duchateau group. The latter spe- 
cies has a singular red mark on the breast, which looks as if 
it had been shot by an arrow there ; it is a native of some 
of the Indian islands. 
The plaintive cooing of our Cushat Dove is familiar to 
those who ramble through woods or walk in their neigh- 
bourhood. 
" The deep mellow crush of the wood-pigeon's note 
Made music that sweeten'd the calm/' — Campbell. 
The foreign pigeons resemble our species in the nature of 
their note. Mr. Gosse, in his ^ Naturalist^s Sojourn in 
Jamaica"^/ says : — In the recesses of the mountain forests, 
the silence is broken by the loud hollow calls of the Ring- 
tail and Blue Pigeon [Columha Carihbea and C. rujina), and 
by the mournful cadences of the lustrous Mountain Witch 
{Geotrygon sylvaticum). The woods that densely clothe the 
* P. 173. 
