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THE CARUNCULATED GROUND PIGEON. 
Geophilus carunculattis. 
PLATE XXVIII. 
Goliimba carunculata, Temm. Pig. 8vo. p. 415. — W'dgler, 
Syst. Av. sp. 41. — Le Colombe-Galline, Le Vaill. Ois. 
d'Afric. 5. t. 278 — Colombe-Galline a Barbillon, Temm. 
Pig. Pam. Trois. pi. 11. 
Of all the species hitherto discovered, there is no 
species, Temminck observes, that shews a more de- 
cided analogy, or rather aflBnity, to the true Gallina- 
ceous Tribes, both in appearance and manners, than 
the subject of the present Plate, and this likeness is 
rendered still more sinking by the accessory appen- 
dages, which ornament the face and throat, and 
which bear so direct an analogy to the wattles of 
the common domestic fowl. It is a native of South 
Africa, and was first discovered by Le Vaillant in 
the Namaqua country, and the following detail of its 
habits and economy is derived from the interesting 
description given by that enterprising and scientific 
traveller, in his splendid work on the African birds. 
Its affinity to the pigeons, he remarks, is shewn by 
the form of its bill, which is modelled exactly after 
