2. COUTMHA. 



299 



hind neck glossed with green, upper mantle with green and purple ; 

 breast vinous red ; primary-coverts and quills slate-black, the 

 primaries with narrow light grey edges ; tail dark slate-plumbeous, 

 crossed beyond the middle by a broad grey band : " iris straw- 

 colour ; legs coral-red ; bill and naked space round the eye coral- 

 red, the former tipped with blackish " (fide Dresser). Total length 

 about Hi inches, wing 9*2, tail 6-8, bill 0*8, tarsus 1"38. 



Female. Similar to the male. 



Young. Much duller, with no silvery-grey tips to the feathers of 

 the neck, and with a slight dull tinge of vinous on the breast. 



Hah. Madeira. 



a g. d $ ft d- et Madeira, June (F. D. G.). Salvin-Goduian Coll. 



bum. sk. 

 hi. d 2 ad. et Seisal, Madeira, April. W. R. Ogilvie Grant, 



imm. sk. Esq. [0.]. 



m. d ad. sk. St. Anna, Madeira, April. W. R. Ogilvie Grant, 



Esq. [C.]. 



;J4. Columba palumbus. 



l'alumbus torquatus, Aldr. Orn. ii. p. 484 (1599-1603). 



Palumbus, Brits. Om. i. p. 89 (1760). 



Columba palumbus, Linn. S. N. i. p. 282, n. 19 (1766) ; Gm. S. N. 

 i. 2, p. 776, n. 19 (1788) ; Lath. Ind. Om. ii. p. 601, n. 32 (1790) ; 

 Bonn. E?ic. Meth. i. p. 232 (1790); Knip §• Temm. Pig. i. fam. 

 seconde, pi. 2 (1808-1813); Temm. Hist. Mat. Pig. et Gat/in. i. 

 pp. 79, 444 (1813); id. Man. d' Orn. p. 276 (1815); Mils. Orn. 

 Nuec. p. 291 (1817) ; Vieill. X. I). xxvi. p. 360 (1818) ; Steph. Gen. 

 Zool. xi. p. 12 (1819); Temm. Man. d'Orn. ii. p. 444 (1820); 

 Steph. Gen. Zool. xiv. p. 280 (1826); Desm. N. D. xl. p. 312 

 (1826); Wagl. Syst. A v. Columba, sp. 45 (1827) ; Werner, Atlas, 

 Pigeons, pi. 1 (1827): Kattp, Natiirl. Syst. p. 107 (1829): Savi, 

 Om. Tosc. ii. p. 154 (1829); Less. Jr. d'Orn. p. 468 (1831); 

 Noma. Vog. Deutschl. vi. p. 168, t. 149 (1833): Selbg, Nat. Libr., 

 Pigeons, p. 13, vignette titlepage (1835) ; StrtekL P. Z. S. 1836, 

 p.' 100 (Smyrna); Gould, B. of Eur. pi. 243 (1837); Kegs. 8c 

 Bias. Wirbelth. Eur. pp. lxii, 195 (1840) ; G. R. Gr. Gen. B. ii. 

 p. 170, ii. 2 (1844); Uartl. Syst. J'crz. p. 98 (1844) ; Blgt/i, J. A. 

 -V. B. xiv. p. 865 (part.) (1845) ; id. Ann. $ Mag. N. H. xix. 

 p. Kit! (part.) (1847); Rchnb. Sgn. Av. Columbaria^ ff. 1241-42 

 (1847) ; Fern. Hare. P.Z.S. 1851, p. 142 (Madeira) ; Sckleg. Vog. 

 Nederl. pi. 183 (1854); G. R. Gr. List B. Brit. Mm. Columbffl, 

 j). 26 ( L856) ; Sundev. Svenska Foglarna, p. 166, pi. 31. f. 2 (1856) ; 

 Sale. Ibis, 1859, p. 318 (E. Atlas) ; Tristr. B>is, 1860, p. 152 

 (Algeria); Potoys, Ibis. I860, p. 236; Parker, P. Z. S. 1863, 

 p. 516; Tristr. P.Z.S. 1864, p. 44-^ (Palestine); Wright, Ibis, 

 I Hit, p. l.;, : More, P. /.. s. 1865, p. 140; ? I),- FtUppi, Viagg. in 

 Pers. p. 350 (Ghilan) (1865); Godman, Ibis, 1866, pp. 99, 102 

 i Azores) ; Eegl. \ Gerbe, Orn. Europ. ii. p. 6 (1867); Huxley, 

 l: Z. S. L867, p. 434, fig. of the skull; Drake, Ibis, 1867, p. 428 

 (Morocco); Tristr. Ibis, lsiis, p. 209 (Palestine); Smith, Ibis, 

 1868, p. 449; Elw. \ Buckl Ibis, L870, p. 200; Tacz. J.f. O. 1870, 

 p. 51 (Constantino) ; Sound. Ibis, 1871, p. 222 ; Ourney, Ibis, L871, 

 p. 294 (Algeria) ; Fritsch, V«g. Eur. tat 29. I'. •"> ( L871 1 ; Godman, 

 IbU, 1872, p. 216 (Madeira) ; Sahad. Faun. (Vital., Uccelli, p. 177 



