Meanings
nouncrown pigeon (plural crown pigeons)
plural crown pigeons
- obsoleteA crowned pigeon.
On the 17th, the steamer not having arrived, the coal-ship left, having lain here a month, according to her contract; and on the same day my hunters went out to shoot for the first time, and brought home a magnificent crown pigeon and a few common birds.
1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 309
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