GREAT CROWNED INDIAN PIGEON, 
BufFon says, though this bird is as large as 
a turkey, it undoubtedlv belongs to the genus 
of the Pigeon. It's bill, it's head, it's neck^ 
the general shape of it's body, it's legs, it's 
feet, it's nails, it's cooing, it's instin6l?, it's 
habits, &c. all are analogous. From being 
deceived by it's size, and never thinking of 
comparing it with a Pigeon, Brisson," savs 
BufFon, and afterwards our designer, termed 
it a Pheasant. The last work of Edwards was 
not then published ; that excellent ornithologist 
has since given his opinion on the subjecft." 
This opinion having been already seen by 
the reader, we need not quote it again from 
BufFon ; who adds, that the Prince of Soubise 
had recently received, at Paris, five of these 
birds alive. " They are all," adds Bufron, 
" so much like each other, in size and colour, 
that it is impossible to distinguish their sex. 
Besides, thev do not lav^ and Mauduir, an in- 
tclhgcnt naturalist, informs me, that lie saw 
several in Holland, which also did not lay. I 
remember to have read, in some voyages, that 
it is usual, in India, to raise these birds, as wc 
•lo our pouirrv." 
