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CHESTNUT-SHOULDERED PIGEON. 
Colutnba spadicea . — Lath. 
PLATE IX. 
Columba spadicea, Lath. Ind. Ornith. Supp. p. 9, Sp. 7. — 
Columba geant, Temm. Pig. et Gall. ed. 8vo, p. 94. 
It is not without a question of doubt we place 
this large and beautiful species in the present divi- 
sion, for although it presents characters in some of 
its members approaching those of the Pigeons, it 
cannot be denied, that, in its general appearance, and 
the metallic lustre of its plumage, it also shews evi- 
dent marks of a near affinity to several species of 
the genus Carpophaga, and it might perhaps with 
equal propriety be placed at the extremity of that 
group. It is a native of the Friendly and other 
islands of the Pacific, and has been accurately de- 
scribed by Latham and Temminck, so far as re- 
gards its plumage ; of its peculiar habits and mode of 
life, we have little information, a deficiency the more 
to be regretted, as, from a minute and correct detail 
of these, we should have been better able to judgo 
of its proper position in relation to other species. 
Temminck makes mention of one peculiarity not no- 
