GREAT CROWNED PIGEON. 
The Gi'eat. Crowned Pigeon in size is 
nearly equal to the Turkey : the greater 
part of its plumage is of a fine purple, or 
bluish ash color ; the middle of the back, 
and coverts of the wings, are of a dark 
reddish color; these together, says Ed- 
wards, form a kind of saddle across the 
upper part of the bird ; some of the first 
row of covert-feathers, above the quills, 
are white, with red tips ; the remainder 
of the row is ash-colored. 'I'he eye is of 
a beautiful red, and placed in the centi i^. 
of a broad space of black, which passe.; 
backward from the upper mandible, and 
