212 RUFOUS-WINGED TURTLE. 



white ; bill and legs dark ; tail broad, and much 

 rounded. 



Total length, 7 inches ; bill, from the front, ^ ; 

 wings, 4 ; tail beyond, 1 ; ditto from the base, 3^ ; 

 tarsus, T 6 o ; hind toe and claw the same. 



TRIANGULAR-SPOTTED PIGEON. 



Columba trigonigera, WAGLER. 



Head and body beneath plumbeus ; wings and throat vina- 

 ceous, with numerous triangular white spots ; feathers of 

 the neck and breast vinaceous and bifid, and tipt with 

 whitish. 



Triangular- spotted Pigeon, Edwards, pi. 75. Le Ramier rous- 

 sard, Le Vaill. Ois. cTAf. iv. pi. 265. Columba Guinea, 

 Auctorum. Columba trigonigera, Wag. Syst. Avium, No. 51. 



NOTHING can be said in commendation of the plu- 

 mage of this singularly marked species, the colour- 

 ing of which is neither attractive to the ordinary 

 observer or inviting to the artist. It is of a 

 middling size, and seems to be abundantly distri- 

 buted over various parts of Africa, as Senegal, 

 Guinea, Angola, and the Cape of Good Hope. At 

 the latter place, according to Le Yaillant, it is called, 

 by the colonist, Bosch or Wild ~Duyf (wood or wild 

 dove.) It is very abundant both in the vicinity of 

 Cape Town and in the interior, where it is one of the 

 greatest pests the fanners have to contend against. 



