CxREAT CROWNED INDIAN 
PIGEON. 
This noble, elegant, and beautiful bird, is 
tbe Columba Coronata of Linnieus. Though 
it*s magnitude be equal to that of a common 
Turkey, it undoubtedly belongs to the family 
of Pig-eons, 
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The original, from which this bird was first 
copied by Edwards, was drawn from the life, 
in India ; and is, with many other drawings, 
broucrht likewise from India bv Governor 
Lotcn, deposited in the Britisli Museum. 
Governor Loten, it seems, brought several 
of these Great Crowned Pigeons alive from 
India ; which he presented to the Princess 
Royal of Great Britain, the Princess Dowager 
of Orange, Sec. It is a native of the Isle of 
Banda, where tlie Dutch call it Kroon Voogel. 
The description of tlils bird can hardly be 
better p;ivcn than in Edwards's own words. 
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