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CROWNED GOURA PIGEON. 
I.ophyrut coronatus V ieili.ot. 
PLATE XXX. 
Columba coronata. Lath. Inti. Ornilh. ii. 566. ap. fVliff. 
Syst. Av. sp. 8. — Phasianus cristatua Indicus, Bris.<i. Om. 
i. p. 279. sp. 6. t. 26. f. i — Great Croiraed Pigeon, Edw. 
t. 338. — Lath. Syn. N. p. 620. — Columbi Hocco, Le Vaill. 
Ois. d'Afr. vi. t. 280 rCoIombc-Galline Goura, Temm. 
Pig. Earn, Trois. PI. Enl. I. Id. ed. 8vo, p. 377. 
I N this magnificent and beautiful bird, we observe 
a combination of form different from that of the 
Ground Pigeons, so lately described, for, instead of 
the marked affinity to the typical rasorial families, 
the Pavonid® and Tetraonidte, so decidedly exhibit- 
ed by these species, both in their mode of life, and 
in their deviation from the usual Columbine figure, 
we have, in the present instance, an approximation 
of structure much nearer that of some of the CracidcB, 
another tribe of birds which constitutes an aberrant 
family of the Rasorial Order, and it is on this ac 
count, we think, that this bird cannot well be placed 
in the same division with the Ground Doves, but must 
constitute the type of a separate group. Standing 
as the two families of the Columbidce and Cracidts 
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