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0 ~WHITE-CROWNED PIGEON.,--
COLUMB1 LEUCOCEPH3LA.I
Plate XVII. Fig. 1.
homba l     chqala, Lwx. Sy8t. I, p 0281, Sp. 14. GME IL. Syst. I, p. 772,
Sp. 14,
!<ATJL h.d. p. 594, Sp. 5. TEMM. Iht Col. in ffist. Pig. et Gall. I, p.
459. Lr .
Gl Oii. II, p. 331, PI. 194.
Coiumba minor lewqocortphas, RMI, Syn. P. 63, SP. 16, and p. 184, Sp. 24.
Ktlii,
lv. P. 120, P. 120 Sp. 18.C
Columba 8axatiliejamaiceneis, BPiss. Om" I, p. 137, Sp. 33. ID. 8vo.
I, p. 34.
Cbkmba capile albo, The White-crowned Pige9n CATESBY, Ca. I, p. 25, PI. 25.
SELIGMAN, Saml. Selt. Vog. II, col. plate.
Le Pigeon de roche de la Jamaique, BVFF. Ois. II, p. 529. SONN. Buff. VII,
p. 216.
Colombe d cakotte bknhe, TEMM. Hist. Pig. et Gall. I, p. 204. ID. folio Pl.
13 of the
second family.
My Collection.
THis bird has been already alluded to in our first. volume,
,when pointing out the difference between it and the new Columba
fasciata of Say. We were then far from supposing that we should
so soon have to become its historian, but having ascertained that
it inhabits Florida, as well as the West-Indies, we are venbled to
give it a place in these pages.    A glance at the plate will now
render, the difference strikingly obvious to the American student-
who Will thus perceive, better than can be explained by words.
- how enti¢rely distinct.the above named species is from the present.
Th   WVhite-crowned Pigeon, well known as an inhabitant of
Xico. and the West-Indies, is likewise found in great numbers on
hsomeif   e Florida keys, such as Key Vacas and others, early in
spring, where it feeds. almost exclusively on a kind of wild fruit,