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CARUNCULATED GROUND PIGEON. 
urges them to separate and pair, in order to insure 
the propagation of the species. 
In size it about equals the Common Turtle, but 
is thicker and rounder in the body. The base of 
the bill and forehead is covered with a naked red 
skin, and the chin is ornamented with a large wattle, 
which turns upwards on each side towards the ears. 
The head, the cheeks, the neck, and the breast, are 
of a purplish-grey, the mantle, the scapulars, and 
the wing-coverts are pale grey, the feathers finely 
margined with white. The belly and abdomen, the 
upper and under tail-coverts, as well as the flanks 
and under wing-coverts, are pure white. The tail, 
which is short, is rounded, the feathers of a deep 
reddish-brown colour, except the exterior feather on 
each side, which has the outer web white. The 
bill is reddish at the base, the tip black. The legs 
are of a purplish-red and covered with hexagonal 
scales. The iris is composed of a double circle of 
yellow and red. The female resembles the male in 
the distribution of her plumage, but the colours are 
less pure in tint, and she is destitute of the wattle 
upon the throat. 
The subject of our next plate is a form equally 
interesting and curious. It is 
