2. VINAGO. 



2. VINAGO. 



Type. 



Vinago, Cuv. Regn. An. i. p. 457 (1817) ( = Colombars, 



Levaill.) ; (cf. Sundev, K. Sv. Vet.-Akad. 1857, p. 55). V. waalia. 



Phalacrotreron, Bp. Consp. Av. ii. p. 6 (1854) ; id. 



Compt. Rend, xxxix. p. 872 (1854) V. delalandei. 



Range. Africa, from Senegambia on the west, arid from Abyssinia 

 on the east, to the Cape, and also Madagascar. 



Key to the Species. 



Chest bright yellow waalia, p. 15. 



Chest not bright yellow, but olive-yellow or 



olive-grey. 

 a'. No grey collar at the base of the hind neck ; 

 forehead feathered. 

 a". Bill very thick and short ; general olive- 

 grey colour very dark crassirostris, p. 17. 



b". Bill moderate; general olive-grey colour 

 lighter; thighs bright yellow mottled with 



black australis, p. 18. 



//. A grey collar at the base of the hind neck. 



c". Tail grey, with a lighter grey apical band ; 



forehead more or less naked, in some 



specimens (very old males ?) the nudity 



extends so as to form a kind of frontal 



shield calm *, p. 20. 



<•/". Tail above olive-yellow like the back, with 

 a whitish-green apical band. 

 a'". Head, neck, and chest olive-yellow. 

 aK Smaller: wing <>15 to 6'66 inches: 



apical tail-band narrower wakejieldi, p. 23. 



b x . Larger; wing 7 - 27 inches : apical tail- 

 band broader sehalowi, p. 24. 



V". Head, neck, and chest ashy olive in the 

 adult birds, tinged with yellowish in 

 younger birds delalandei, p. 24. 



1. Vinago waalia. 



Waalia, Bruce, Trav. Abyss, v. p. 186. 



Columba waalia, Qm. Brace's Reisen Uebers. v. Cnkn, v. ii. Zusatze, 

 p. 31 (1791); id. Uebers. von Volkm.y. 5, pp. 188, 190, t. 38 

 (1791); Mei/ers Xeueste Zool. Enid, in Neu-Holl. u. Afrika, 

 p. 128 (1793); Beehst. Lath. Ueb. iv. p. 387 (1811). 



Waalia Pigeon, Lath. Gen. Syn. Suppl. ii. p. 2(59 (1802); Bechst 

 Uebers. ii. p. (542(1794). 



* Columba phasiarblla, Lefevre (nee 7', him.), Voy. Abuse, vii p 142 

 (1845-50) ; Heuyl. J.f. 0. 1862, p. 306. 



An undescribed second species of "Colombar" from Abyssinia, possibly 

 Vinago calva 



