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PHEASANT-TAILED PIGEON. 



Columba phasianella. TEMM. 

 PLATE VIII. 



Columba phasianella, Temm. PL Col. 1. 100 Id. in Trans, 

 of Linn. Soc. v. 13, p. 129 Columba Amboinensis,^wc/. 

 Juv. 



THE group or genus to which this species bdongs 

 is distributed throughout the Isles of Sonda, th( Mo- 

 luccas, the Philippines, and Java, and is also me with 

 in Australia ; and, besides the present species con- 

 tains the Col. macroura of authors, the Col. mchali 

 of Wagler, and the Col. Reinwartii of Temninck. 

 Of its precise station in the circle of the (olum- 

 bidse, we speak with some degree of dou>1, not 

 having had an opportunity of instituting so sttct an 

 analysis of the species as the subject require, but 

 we believe it will be found to enter among thcPtili- 

 nopinae or Arboreal Pigeons, as the feet and trsi of 

 its members are similar in form to those of lat di- 

 vision, the latter being veiy short and partly lumed 

 below the joint, the former with the exteor toe 

 longer than the inner, and the hinder toe fitf deve- 



