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CARPOPIIACA. 
Tlie fruit of the Banyan (Ficus religiosiis ) , the 
Sacred Tree of the Hindoos, is also a favourite re- 
past of all the pigeons of this group, as well as of the 
stronger-billed Vinago. 
The subject of our next plate represents one of 
the most beautiful of its kind : It is the 
