. Animals in menageries. ransverse dusky blotches, and a few of the same onthe wing covers: ends of the quills chocolate: tailblack : legs moderate in size, and red. Inhabits NewSouth Wales. The Pigeon Australis, Sw. (Fig. 32.) Cinereous grey : wing covers and lesser quills tipt withdark roundish spots. Cereopsis Nov« HollandiaB, Latham, Lid. Ornith. Supp. Cereopsis, Bennett, in Zool. Gard. ii. 815. Ansergriseus, Vieillot. Cereopsis cendre, Temm. PI. Col. Holland Cereopsis, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. 325. The pigeon goose(so called from the si-milarity of its colo
. Animals in menageries. ransverse dusky blotches, and a few of the same onthe wing covers: ends of the quills chocolate: tailblack : legs moderate in size, and red. Inhabits NewSouth Wales. The Pigeon Australis, Sw. (Fig. 32.) Cinereous grey : wing covers and lesser quills tipt withdark roundish spots. Cereopsis Nov« HollandiaB, Latham, Lid. Ornith. Supp. Cereopsis, Bennett, in Zool. Gard. ii. 815. Ansergriseus, Vieillot. Cereopsis cendre, Temm. PI. Col. Holland Cereopsis, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. 325. The pigeon goose(so called from the si-milarity of its colour-ing, no less than itsdirect analogy to thosebirds) remained formany years so littleknown to ornitholo-gists, that only threepreserved specimenswere ascertained toexist in the Europeanmuseums. One ofthese, mutilated, was,no doubt, the cause ofconsiderable error toDr. Latham, when he first separated this bird as thetype of his genus Cereopsis; a name, however, which,from not being founded in fact, but tending to give a. PIGEON GOOSE. 219 false idea of its structure, is so objectionable, that wetrust some of our higher ornithologists will propose abetter. W^ithin these few years, however, the Coreopsis hasbecome not only a living inhabitant of our menageries,but a perfectly naturalised species. The late Mr. Bennett,who has very ably and ingeniously drawn up a completehistory of the bird, mentions that the Zoological Society,in the year 1831, possessed no less than eight hvingspecimens; some of which belonged to George at Windsor, ^ where they bred as freely asthe emus and several other Australian animals; havingall descended from one pair originally brought to thiscountry. They are perfectly tame, and in their mannersresemble geese, but show more disposition to becomefamiliar. Its manners in a state of nature may be gatheredfrom the various accounts of voyagers ; for Mr. Bennetthas clearly shown that this bird has been indirectlymentioned in their narratives for
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