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Title: Foreign birds for cage and aviary
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Butler, Arthur Gardiner, 1844-1925
Subjects: Cage birds
Publisher: London, "The Feathered world"
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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wing-cctverts and base of innerwebs of flights cinnamon ; bill black ; feet deep crimson;irides reddish-browTi. Female smaller, with a shorterbill; the forehead and breast wholly dull pale chocolate ;back of crown darker; back and wings washed witholive; abdomen brownish-ash, with no defined broaddark maroon band between it and the breast ; tail palerthan in the male, the lateral feathers redder and witha subterminal brown bar. Hab., Fiji and Tonga. Islands. Mr.E. L. Layard says (Proceedings of the ZoologicalSociety. 1875, p. 438):— Lnlike any other Pigeon ofthese islands, it seeks its food entirely on the ground.Here it runs as quickly as a Quail, springs to its wingson the least alarm, and glides through the underwood toa place of .^lafety with the rapidity of lightning. Mr. Kleinschmidt has ke)>t it in captivity for along period ; but it is so timid that on the approachof anyone to its large cage it instantlv runs into acorner and crouches down, just as a Quail or other gama-
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300 FOREIGN BIRDS FOR CAGE AND AVIARY. bird would do. The natives call it Ngilu !wi-itteji inihe missionary jargon QUu). It breeds in lowbushes, making a flimsy nest, never ooit of the reachof a mans hand, and lavs two eggs, white; axis 1 3,diam. 10. Although Russ does not mention this species in hiswork, it has been represented in the London ZoologicalSocietys collection more than once, and recorded bothin the 8th and 9th editions of the List of Animals. WoNGA-woNG.i Pigeon (Leuco^arcia picata). The upper surface, includinor the wings and tail, of the <idult bird is leaden-grey, quills dark brown, outer brown; the white bands from the shoulders across thesides of the breast broader, and the black spots on theunder surface more numerous, often divided into pairs(on each side of the shaft), characters noted in livingfemale. Hah., Eastern Australia, from RockinghamBay, through the interior, to Victoria. Tolerably abundant in the brushes of New SouthWales, where the woods, according t

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