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WHITE-FRONTED GROUND DOVE. 
Columba larvata, and Columba erytbrotiiorax, the 
first of which is placed in the second section or Co- 
lonibes. Although he has made some very pertinent 
remarks on its close affinity to tlie Ground Doves, 
the other in the third section or Columbe-gallines, 
upon referring to the descriptions of these two birds, 
we cannot find any recognisable distinction between 
them, that of the one answering equally well to the 
other ; and we are strongly inclined to think he has 
described the C. erytbrotiiorax as a distinct species, 
merely in consequence of bis belief that the skin 
from which he took his description belonged to an 
American and not an African bird, as he was in- 
formed by the person who possessed it, that it had 
been addressed to liim from Surinam, a mistake in 
all probability for Senegal. Our own researches 
have not enabled us to find any American species 
that can possibly be confounded with the African 
bird, specimens of which we possess direct from the 
Cape of Good Hope. We have therefore, to avoid 
further confusion, brought the synonyms of Tem- 
minck’s two species together. 
By Le Vaillant, who first discovered the species 
in South Africa, it is stated to inhabit extensive 
woods, w'here it lives upon the ground, merely be- 
taking itself to low bushes for concealment or repose, 
or to build its nest. 'I bis is composed of small 
twigs, and the eggs, which are two in number, are 
stated to be of a yellowish-white colour. It flies 
low. and with a considerable noise of the wings, and 
