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DOUBLE-CRESTED PIGEON. 
Celumba dilopha, — Temminck. 
PLATE X. 
Columba dilopha, Temm. in Trans. Linn. Soc. v. 13, p. 124; 
Id. pi. Col. pi. 162 Wag. Sgst. Av. Sp. 11. 
In this curious species, besides the occipital crest, 
au ornament which is found in many other birds, there 
is an additional one in front, composed of long re- 
curved and lax feathers, which not only occupy the 
forehead, but also the superior part of the soft or 
ba-sal portion of the bill. This double crest gives 
the head of this pigeon a character unlike any of its 
congeners, and more resembling that of some of the 
crested Phasianidffi or Cracidm, with which an analo- 
gical relation is thus sustained. In other respects its 
characters agree with those of C. spadicea, the pro- 
poi tion of the wings and the form of the feet being 
nearly the same. Temminck, who first described it, 
observes, “ Cette nouvelle espfece a le plus de rap- 
ports dans toutes ses formes, avec la Columba spadi- 
cea, et toutes lea deux sont tres peu dififerentes de 
notre Ramior d’Europe.” In the concluding obser- 
vation, we cannot concur to the extent implied by 
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