DOUBLE-CRESTED PIGEON. 
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soft feathers, with open or decomposed barhules, 
each featlier increasing in breadth towards the tip ; 
its colour is a rich reddish-brown. On each side 
from the posterior angle of the eye it is bounded by 
a streak of glossy black. The cheeks and ear-coverts 
are pale reddish-brown, the chin and throat pearl- 
grey. The feathers of the side and fore-part of the 
neck and breast are of a pale grey where exposed, 
but black at the base, their form is trifid, each fea- 
ther liaving a division or rather separation of the 
vanes at a short distance from the tip, as represented 
in the cut. Upon 
the back part of 
the neck, though 
acuminated, 
are not distinctly 
divided as upon 
the breast. The 
whole of the back, scapulars, and wing-coverts are of 
a deep bluish-grey, each feather shewing a distinct 
darker margin. The quills and secondaries are 
bluish-black. The whole of the under plumage is 
grey. The tail is square at the end, an<l nearly seven 
inches long, the basal part" and narrow band, pale 
grey, tinged with reddish, the tip and intermediate 
bar black. The naked part of the tarsi and the toes 
are crimson-red, the liind toe strong, with a broad 
flat sole, and longer than the tarsus. The nails are 
long and moderately curved. 
