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ABYSSINIAN VINAGO. 



Length about eleven and a half inches. Outer 

 half of the bill bluish-white ; basal half, in the dead 

 bird, bluish-black. The whole of the head, neck, 

 and throat, as far as the breast, uniform light grey, 

 tinged with a greenish hue ; the remaining upper 

 parts of the plumage, as the back, scapulars, tertials, 

 and tail-covers, light olive-green, which colour tinges 

 such of the greater wing-covers as are nearest the 

 body. The lesser wing -covers are vinaceous-red*, 

 deepest at the angle of the shoulder, and which 

 blends into the greenish-grey of the lesser wing- 

 covers ; greater covers and quills, blackish ; both 

 the series of covers and the terminal half of the 

 lesser quills are broadly and distinctly edged with 

 sulphur-yellow, which edging is narrower and al- 

 most white on the primaries. Tail even; above 

 light cinereous ; beneath with the basal half black 

 and the outer half cinereous-white. The under 

 plumage from the breast downwards is yellow, the 

 flanks greenish grey ; the thighs, vent, and side 

 tail-covers being whitish; under tail-covers rufous 

 in the middle ; feet apparently red, the tarsal fea- 

 thers reaching to the base of the toes. 



Total length about 12 inches; bill, from the 

 gape, 1, from the front, -^ ; wings, 7j tail, from 

 the base, 4^ ; tarsus, I 7 ?T . 



* That is, something like the colour of the lees of old 

 wine, a tint almost exclusively found in the pigeon family. 



