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AROMATIC VINAGO. 
Vinago aromatica Cuvier. 
PLATE I. 
Columha aromatica, Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 599. sp. 23 Co- 
lombo aromatique, Temminck, Pig. et Gall. 1. p. 51. 
The Aromatic Vinago is found in all the warmer 
parts of Continental India, as well as in Java and 
other adjacent islands, but being strictly an arboreal 
bird, it is only to be met with in the retirement of 
the forest, or amid the thick and expansive foliage 
of the banyan, the sacred tree of the East, and which 
from its peculiar mode of growth almost constitutes 
a forest of itself. Ensconced in this leafy covering, 
in which it is still more effectually concealed by the 
assimilating colour of its plumage,* it passes the 
• The following note aeeompanied the skins of V. mili- 
taris and aromatica sent from India, and as illustrative of 
their peculiar habits, we make no apology for thus introduc- 
ing it : “ Green Pigeon. — ^This beautiful bird has brilliant 
red eyes. Its feet are something like the parrot's, and it 
climbs in the same way as that bird. It is very difficult to 
find, for although a flock is marked into a tree, yet its co- 
lour is so similar to the leaf of the banyan (on the small 
red fig of which it feeds), that if a bird does not move, you 
may look for many minutes before you can see one, al- 
though there may be fifty in the tree.” 
