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WHITE-FRONTED GROUND DOVE. 
Peristera laruata. 
PLATE. XXVI. 
Columba larvata Temm. Pig. pi. 31. — Id. 8vo. p. 266 
JVag. Syst. Av. sp. 67 ^Columba a masqfieblanc, Temm 
Pig, p. 266. — Columba Erythrotliorax, Temm. Pig. Fam. 
Troisieme, pi. 7. — Id. 8vo, 405. — Wag, Syst- Av. sp. 68. 
— Columbe-GaUine & face blanche, Temm. Pig. 405. 
Im size and the colour of its upper plumage, this 
species bears a great resemblance to the White- 
bellied Ground Dove. It belongs, however, to a 
different quarter of the world ; as hitherto, it has only 
been found in the southern division of the .-African 
Continent. In the form of its bill and legs, it is 
true to the type of the genus ; the wings are also 
greatly rounded and concave, and the proportion of 
the respective quill-feathers nearly the same, but it 
wants the sudden attenuation or narrowed point of 
the 6rst feather, as observed in Peristera rufaxilla ; 
in this respect, however, it agrees with the last de- 
scribed, and some other species, which have the first 
quill broad, and without any sudden narrowing near 
the point. 
In M. Temminck’s valuable history of the Pigeons, 
two birds have been described under the names of 
