T A B . XVI.
COLUMBA CORONATA.
CHARACTER GENERICUS.
Roßrum reótum, verílis apicem defcendens.
Nares oblong®, membrana molli tumida femiteflas.
Lingua integra. LIN. SYST. NAT . p. 279.
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS, &c.
Columba orbitis nigris, crifta ereña, corpore ca;rulefcente, humeris ferrugineis.
L I N . SYST. N A T . p. 282.
Phafianus criftatus Indiens. Bmss. Av. i. p. 279. t. 26. f. i.
G E N E R I C CHARACTER.
Bill ftrait, defcending towards the tip.
Nofirils oblong, half covered by a ibft tumid membrane.
Tongue entire.
S P E C I F I C CHARACTER, fee.
Pigeon with black orbits, upright creft, body bluiih, fhoulders (generally) fubferruginous.
Great crowned Indian Pigeon. EDW. GLEANINGS, t. 338.
T H I S bird is beyond comparifon the largeft and moll magnificent fpecies of its tribe; being
fcarce inferior in fize to a Turkey. From its fo greatly exceeding all the reft of the genus, it
has been fometimes called a Pheafant,- and even the accurate and judicious Briflbn has in this
inftance fo far given way to popular ideas as to defcribe it as a fpecies of Pheafant, though all
the charafters of the genus Columba are moll ftrikingly exemplified in its whole form. The
late Mr. Edwards, in his incomparable work on natural hiftory, faw this bird in its true light,
and has very properly defcribed it as a fpecies of Pigeon; in which genus it is alfo placed by
Linnajus, the Count de Buffon, and Mr. Latham. The general colour of the bird is a beautiful
cinereous blue, which varies in degree of intenfity in diflirent individuals, according to the
health of the bird. On the back and llioulders a rich purplidi-chefnut, or purple-ferruginous
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