286 Capt. G. E. Shelley on the 



pearl-grey, shading into slaty black for about the end quarter 

 of the tail; lower throat and crop deep vinous, slightly 

 glossed on the sides with metallic lilac, gradually fading into 

 white on the abdomen and under tail- coverts ; the sides of 

 the body shade into pale pearl-grey ; under surface of the 

 wings grey, shading into brown towards the outer webs and 

 ends of the quills ; under surface of the tail black, crossed 

 by a broad white bar; iris pale yellow; bill pinkish red, 

 fading into yellow towards the tip ; legs red, powdered with 

 white between the scales. Total length 17 inches, culmen 

 0-9, wing 10, tail 72, tarsus 1'2. 



Hab. Madeira, Azores, and Mediterranean coast, with the 

 exception of Egypt. 



11. Palumbus trocaz. 



Columba trocaz, Heineken in Brewster's Journ. 1829, 

 p. 228, Madeira; Jard. & Selby, 111. Orn. 1825-1839, pi. 98 

 (bad); Vernon Harcourt, P. Z. S. 1851, p. 142; id. Ann. & 

 Mag. Nat. Hist. xii. 1853, p. 58; A. Newton,Ibis,1863,p.l86; 

 Godman, Ibis, 1872, p. 214; Dresser, B. Eur. vii. 1875, p. 33, 

 pi. 461 (good). 



Columba laurivora, Webb & Berthelot, Orn. Can. 1836- 

 1844, p. 26, pi. 3 (top fig.). 



Trocaza trocaz, Bp. Compt. Rend, xxxix. 1854, p. 1104. 



Trocaza bouvryi, Bp. Compt. Rend, xliii. 1856, pp. 837, 

 948, ^^ Morocco''!; id. Icon. Pig. 1857, pi. 70. 



" Head and neck slaty dove-blue, feathers on the hind neck 

 and sides of the neck tipped with light silvery or French grey ; 

 back and lesser wing-coverts dark plumbeous slate on the 

 fore part of the back and hind neck, glossed with purple and 

 green ; rump rather bluer than the rest of the upper parts ; 

 quills blackish, some of the primaries with a narrow greyish- 

 blue margin, the inner secondaries tinged with slate ; primary- 

 coverts dove-blue ; tail dark plumbeous slate, crossed by a 

 broad subterminal dove-blue band ; breast vinous red ; rest 

 of the underparts slaty blue ; bill and space round the eye 

 coral-red, the former tipped with blackish ; iris straw-colour ; 

 legs coral-red ; claws black. Total length about 16 inches. 



