2. VINAGO. 19 



Diet. Set. Nat. xl. p. 365 (1826); Less. Tr. a"Orn. p. 475 (1831) 



id. Compl. de Buff., Ois. viii. p. 274 (1837) ; id. op. cit. 2nd ed. 



p. 274 (1838) ; Verr. Cat. Coll. Rivoli, p. 29 (1846; ; Cass. Pr. 



Philad. Acad. 1864, p. 248. 

 Pigeon Ramier verd de Madagascar, D'Aubent. PI. Enl. 111. 

 Founingo, part., Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. ii. p. 540 (1771). 

 .Madagascar Pigeon, vnr. A, Lath. Gen. Sun. ii. 2, p. 641 (1783); Bechst. 



Uebers. ii. p. 611 (1794). 

 Columba madagascariensis, var. /3, Gm. S. N. i. 2, p. 779 (1788). 

 Colombara Epaulettes violettes, feinelle, Levaill. Ois. (VAfr. vi. pi. 277 



(1808). 

 Columba abvssinica, part., Temm. Hist. Nat. Pig. pp. 65, 443 ( $ ) 



(1813); Vieill. N. D. xxvi. p. 393 (J) (1818); id. Erie. Meth. i. 



p. 378 (?) (1823) ; Less. Tr. d'Orn. p. 476 (part.) (1831). 

 Vinago australis, Cuv. Regn. An. i. p. 457 (1817) ; Steph. Gen. Zool. 



xi. 1, p. 115 (1819); Bp. Consp. Av. ii. p. 7 (1854) ; id. Compt. 



Rend, xxxix. p. 873 (1854), xl. p. 216, n. 7 (1855) ; id. Coup d'ceil. 



Ordr. Pi(/. pp. 5, 54, n. 7 (1855) ; Hartl. J. f. O. 1860, p. 161 ; id. 



Beitr. Faun. Madag. p. 65 (1861) ; Rctinb. Tauben, i. p. 109, 



t. 240 6. ff. 3371-72 (1862) ; Sclat. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 167 ; Rock # 



E. Newt. Ibis, 1863, p. 167 ; E. Newt. ibid. p. 454 ; Pollen, N. T. 



D. i. p. 318 (1863) ; Grand. Rev. et Mag. Zool. 1867, p. 418 ; 



Soma, Mux. Nae. Lisb. Colunibae, p. 6 (1873) ; Hartl. Fog. Madag. 



p. 259 (1877) ; Poll. Rech. Faun. Madag. i. pp. 144, 198, 201 



(1877) ; Milne-Edu\ Sf Grand. Hist. Madag. xii. p. 470, pi. cxc. 



f. 1, pis. exci., excii. (1855). 

 Columba waalia, part., Vieill. Gal. des Ois. i. p. 332 ( $ ) (1825). 

 Treron australis, Steph. Gen. Zool. xiv. 1, p. 274 (1826) ; G. R. Gr. 



Gen. B. ii. p. 467, n. 8 (part.) (1844) ; Rchnb. Sun. Av. Columbarije, 



p. 2, f. 1347 (1847) ; Hartl. Zeitschr. f. Zool. Zoot. u. Palaozool. i. 



p. 158 (1848); G. R. Gr. Gen. B. App. p. 23 (1849); Schleg. 



P. Z. S. 1866, p. 424; Poll. $ Schleg. Rech. Faun. Madaq. p. 117 



(1868) ; G. R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 224, n. 9110 (1870) ; Finsch # 



Hartl. Vdg. Ostafr. p. 535 (note) (1870) ; Schleg. Mm. P.-B. 



Columba?, p. 48 (1873) ; Bartl. P. Z. S. 1875, p. 67 ; Gieb. Thes. 



Om. iii. p. 650 (1877) : Shell. Ibis, 1883, p. 267 ; Sibree, Ibis, 1891, 



p. 564. 

 Columba humeralis, part., Wagl. Sgst. Av. Columba, sp. 2 ( $ ) 



(1827). 

 Colombar vert, Sganz. Not. Madag. p. 39 (1840). 



Adult nude. Head, neck, and breast yellowish green ; rest of the 

 upper parts olive, with a greyish cast on the back ; sides grey ; 

 tlatiks dark olive, edged with primrose-yellow ; tibial feathers 

 primrose-yellow, tipped with blackish olive ; under tail-coverts cin- 

 namon, broadly edged with whitish, the basal ones olive, edged 

 with yellowish white ; smaller wing-coverts, near the bend of the 

 wing, vinaccous purple ; on the wing an oblique pale yellow band 

 formed by the tip of the greater wing-coverts ; primary-coverts and 

 quills blackish, the latter with narrow yellowish outer edges ; 

 tertials olive like the back ; under wing-coverts grey with a 

 greenish cast ; axillars and quills underneath grey ; tail grey, 

 central feathers uniform, the lateral ones black about the middle, 

 with t ho outer edge grey, and with a broad grey apical band: "iris 

 light blue ; beak horn-colour, basal halt lake-pink ; legs, feet, and 



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