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of the Jardiii des Plautes in Paris, and also the specimen re- 

 ferred to by Bonaparte in the British Museum, In both these 

 examples this character is distinctly shown. The species is 

 smaller than C. trocaz of Madeira, and is without the white on 

 the neck so conspicuous in that bird. The vinous colouring, 

 too, of the under plumage is not restricted to the breast, as in . 

 C. trocaz, but spreads downwards over the abdomen. The head, 

 too, is tinged with iridescent green, and is less decidedly plum- 

 beous than either of the other species. 



I never met with any Pigeon in the Canaries exactly answer- 

 ing to Webb and Berthelot's plate and to the examples above re- 

 ferred to ; but I heard by report of the existence of such a bird. 

 At Tacaronte it goes by the name of " raboblanco.^^ Pigeons 

 are more numerous in Gomera, where this name is apparently 

 applied to the same bird. The specimen in the British Museum 

 came out of the Massena collection. 



57. COLUMBA BOLLII, Sp. nOV. 



Columba bouvryi, Bp. (?) BoUe, J. fur Orn. 1857, p. 329 (?). 



Plumbea, alis nigricantioribus : colli lateribus et dorso superiore 

 viridescenti et pux'purascenti iridescentibus : pectore et 

 abdomiue superiore vinaceo indutis : cauda nigricante, 

 fascia lata subapicali plumbea transvittata : rostro et pedi- 

 bus corallinis : long, tota 15 poll, angl., alse 8*3, caudae 6, 

 rostri a rictu 1*2, tarsi I'l, dig. med. cum ungue 1'6. 



Fem. mari similis. 



Hah. in insula Teneriffse. 

 Obs. C. laurivorcE affinis, sed capite plumbeo, abdomine imo 

 plumbeo nee vinaceo, cauda transfasciata baud albido ter- 

 miuata, tarsis brevioribus et dig. med. minus elongato dis- 

 tinguenda. A C. trocaz statura minore et coloribus colli 

 iridescentibus dignoscenda est. 



For some time I was under the impression that this bird was 

 not to be distinguished from the white-tailed one; but on a 

 farther examination of the type specimen of C. laurivora in the 

 Paris Museum, and on a close comparison of my skins with that 

 in the British Museum, I have no doubt of there being two spe- 

 cies of Wood-Pigeon in the Canaries. I procured, in all, nine 

 skins, which include both sexes and young birds. The first 

 I shot in a ravine above Orotava, where I had been told they 



