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Columba sp, ?, Tristram, Ibis, 1859, p. 35, Palestine. 



Columba chlorophcea, Hartl. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 329, Prince's 

 Island. 



Columba fusca, Severtzoff, Turk. Jevotn. 1873, p. 68. 



Columba neglecta, Hume, Lahore to Yark. 1873, p. 272. 



Head and upper neck slaty grey ; remainder of the neck, 

 all round, metallic green, passing below into rich metallic 

 coppery purple ; upper back, wing-coverts, lower portion of 

 the rump, upper tail-coverts, and tail leaden grey, with the 

 middle back and upper portion of the rump ashy white ; the 

 greater and median wing- coverts, with the exception of the 

 outer ones, have broad black subterminal bars, generally con- 

 fined to the outer webs of the feathers, and which form two 

 distinct cross bars on the wings ; quills dark brown, partially 

 washed with grey ; the tail has a broad terminal black bar ; 

 breast and under tail-coverts leaden grey ; axillaries and 

 under wing-coverts white, the latter shaded with grey towards 

 the edges of the wings ; under surface of the quills white, 

 shading into brown on the outer webs and towards their ends ; 

 iris orange-red ; bill vinous slate-colour, inclining to white 

 on the cere; legs red. Total length 11 inches, culraen 0*8, 

 wing 8" 5, tail 4*6, tarsus 1"2. 



Hab. As a domestic bird the whole coast of the African 

 continent and all the islands within my limits, and is liable 

 to form a wild colony anywhere. 



The characters which most readily distinguish C. livia 

 from its near ally C. oenas are : — the green metallic collar 

 entirely surrounding the neck and passing below into rich 

 coppery purple ; the two distinct black bars which partially 

 cross the wing; the axillaries, greater portion of the under 

 wing-coverts, and under surface of the quills being white; 

 the nearly white colouring of the middle and lower back ; 

 but this latter is not so constant a character, being absent in 

 the variety C. schimperi. 



2. Columba (enas. 



Columba cenas sive vinago, Briss. Orn, i. 1860, p. 86. 



Columba mnas, Linn, Faun. Suec. 1761, p. 75 ; id. S. N. i. 



