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CRO^VNED GOURA PIGEON. 
*lo, the first eommencing, the other completing, tlie 
circle of the Rasorial Order, such a form as that 
of the Lophyrus was required to connect the two 
extremes ; and in this species we have a beautiful il- 
lustration of the manner in which Nature has con- 
trived to sustain, in this order of the feathered race, 
that circular succession of affinities, which appears 
to prevail throughout the whole of animated matter. 
In the form of its bill, its voice, and mode of pro- 
pagation, it shews its near relation to the Typical 
Pigeons more decidedly than the Ground Pigeons 
already described ; but its gait, its elevated crest, its 
short wings, and lengthened tail, are so much in ac- 
cordance with those of the Cracidce, that Temminck 
observes, to make it a Hocco or species of Cras it 
exterior, it would only be necessary to substitute the 
bill of the one bird for the other. The Crowned 
Goura is a native of many of the islands of the great 
Indian Archipelago, being by no means rare in Java 
and Bauda. In New Guinea it is abundant, as well 
as in most of the Molucca Islands. It inhabits the 
forests, and feeds upon berries, seeds, grain, &c. Its 
nest is built upon a tree, and, like the majority of 
the Columbidae, it lays but two eggs each hatching 
The voice of the male is a hoarse murmuring or 
cooing, accompanied by a noise, seemingly produced 
by the compression or forcible ejection of the air 
contained within the thorax, something similar to 
that so frequently heard from the turkey, when, 
strutting with expanded tail, he pays his court to 
