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BRONZE- WINGED GROUND DOVE. 
face of the earth itself, making a very inartificial 
nest, and la)dng two white eggs. It is usually seen 
in pairs, and the place of its retreat is readily dis- 
covered by its loud and sonorous cooings, which, at 
a distance, are said to resemble the lowlngs of a cow. 
Its chief food consists of a berry resembling a cherry, 
the stones of which are generally found in its sto- 
mach, during its abode around Sidney, which ap- 
]>ears to be there restricted to the breeding season, 
as it is only met with in that district from the month 
of September till February. 
In size it equals our Wood Pigeon, measuring 
about 15 inches in extreme length. The bill, from 
the comers of the mouth, is nearly one inch, of a 
black colour, reddish towards the base. The fore- 
head, the sinciput, the streak beneath the eyes, and 
the throat, are white. The crown hair-brown, with 
a reddish tinge, surrounded with a broad fillet of 
dusky cochineal red. Cheeks and sides of neck blu- 
ish-gray. Lower part of fore neck and breast pur- 
plish-gray. Abdomen and vent gray, slightly tinged 
with pale lavender-purple. Back, scapulars, rump, 
and upper tail-coverts, hair-brown, with a greenish 
tint in some lights, each feather margined paler. 
Lesser and greater wing-coverts bluish-gray, the ex- 
terior webs each with a large ovate metallic spot, 
exhibiting various tints, according to the light in 
which it is viewed. Quills hair-brown on the upper 
surface ; the inner surface of the inner webs deeply 
margined with pale reddish-orange, which is also 
