6 22 p i g e o n ,
the eggs i and he fuppofed it was from this caufe alone that there
was no produce.
They are faid to be kept by fome, in the Eaft Indies, in their
court-yards, as domeftic poultry.
The Butch at the Moluccas call them Crown-Vogel*.
M. Sonnerat, as well as Dampier, found thefe in plenty at New
Guinea j and it is probable that they were originally tranfported
from that place into Banda., from whence the Dutch chiefly now
procure them.
10.
LESSER-
CROWNED P.
Description»
Le Rouloul de Malacca, Sen. Vy. Ind. vol. ii. p. 174. pi. 100.
C I Z E of the Common Pigeon. The bill is conical, a little bent
the colour of it black; the under mandible yellow at the
bafe : irides yellow : the head and neck are black : on the forehead
are fix very long black briftly hairs which ftand upright, or
may be lowered at will: at the back part of the head is a creft of
a gilded red colour ■, the feathers which compofe it are rather
hard and ftiff, and the webs not united with each other : between
the two crefts the fpace is white, forming a band acrofs the
head: the eyes are encircled with white ftiff feathers: the breaft
and belly of a beautiful deep violet: the lefier wing coverts are
brown; the others, and lefier quills, rufous white, crofied with
undulated black lines: the greater quills are .rufous, marked
acrofs as the others : the. back, rump, and tail, are deep green;
the latter fhort, and carried horizontally : the legs yellow: the
toes are feparated to the origin ; but the hind toe wants a
claw.
* By the natives they are called Bululu; by the Papuans, Mamli.
Lev.