Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A large Australian pigeon, Lcucosarcia picata, having white flesh, and much esteemed for the table.

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  • The wonga-wonga and bronze-wing and great fruit-pigeons are, like the "bald-pates" of

    Birds in the Calendar 1894

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