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"The Great Crowned Pigeon has a black circle. 
round each eye, an upright creft, the body bluifh, | 
; the thoulders ferrugineous or iron colour. 
* Six of the covert feathers of the -wings are 
‘ck, but iron-coloured at the points, The creft 
. On its head is large, upright, comprefied, and- 
_compofed of diftina feathers ; the bill and legs 
are dufky, and the bird is nearly the fize a 7 
; Peacock, coe 
- — Itinhabitsthe Molucca iflands and oe Calla? . 
a and has been brought alive to England. In the | 
__ Eaft Indies they are fometimes ae tame in their 
+ poultry-yards, a 
The male approaches his faneher with the fame 
a geftures 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 difcovered what it proceeded © 
ae from, that it was the cries of human beings. 
: They build their nee on trees, 
The Ring Dove.—The tail is afh-coloured 
above, and blackifh at the tips; the greater quill — 
feathers are dufky, and all except the outermoft 
have the exterior edges whitifh; on each fide of 
me nee i is a white crefcent ; she legs are covered. 
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