OF BIRDS. 
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The Great Crowned Pigeon has a black circle 
round each eye, an upright creft, the body bluifh, 
the fhoulders ferrugineous or iron colour. 
Six of the covert feathers of the wings are 
black, but iron-coloured at the points. The creft 
on its. head is large, upright, comprcfied, and 
compofed of diftiruR feathers; the bill and legs 
are dufky, and the bird is nearly the fizc of a 
Peacock. 
It inhabits the Molucca iflands and New Guinea, 
and has been brought alive to England. In the 
Eaft Indies they are fometimes kept tame in their 
poultry-yards. 
The male approaches his partner with the fame 
geflures as the common Pigeon, its note is coo¬ 
ing and plaintive, but loud. The crew of Mr. 
Bougainville, (who made a voyage round the 
world,) were much alarmed at their noife, ima¬ 
gining before they difeovered what it proceeded 
from, that it was the cries of human being'. 
They build their nefls on trees. 
The Ring Dove.—The tail is nih-coloured 
above, and blackifn at the tips; the greater quill 
feathers arc dufky, and all except the outermoft 
have the exterior edges whitifh ; on each fide of 
the neck is a white crefcent ; the leg> arc covered 
with 
