THE CUSHAT DOVE. 
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white- wing is most heard in the morning, though each season 
brings the notes of both birds, from all parts of the woods 
around. They are respectively characteristic of the quietude 
of the late and early hours. 
" ' Nec tamen interea raucse . . . palumbes, 
Nec gemere aeria cessabit turtur ab ulmo.' 
Virgil. Buc. Eel. i. 58. 
^^None/^ continues the pleasing naturalist of Jamaica, 
" but those who have listened to these gentle voices can tell 
what an effect they produce upon the mind. Their tender 
melancholy communicates itself to the hearer 5 and though 
reason tells him that they are the expressions of buoyant 
joy and health, he can scarcely fail to feel a pang of sym- 
pathy for what seems to be the complaint of gentleness and 
distress."'^ 
In the island of Ilpola, one of the Samoan group, for- 
merly lived in great abundance a very curious pigeon named 
ManU'7nea, Sir William Jardine, Bart., described the spe- 
cies under the name of Gnathodon, about the same time 
that Mr. Peale named and recorded its history from ampler 
materials as Bidunculus strigirostris (Plate XIV. fig. 1). 
It is of a rounded robust form, and is particularly distin- 
guished by its compressed hooked beak, the upper mandible 
