TRERONID^ VINAGO 157 



Key of the Species. 



A. Below greenish with an olive tinge V. delalandii, p. 157. 



B. Below greenish with a yellowish tinge F. schalowi, p. 159. 



FIG. 48. Left foot of Vinago delalandii. x \% 



629. Yinago delalandii. Delalande's Green Pigeon. 



Phalacrotreron delalandii, Bp. Consp. Av. ii, p. 6 (1854) ; id. Icon Pig. 

 pi. 1 (1857) ; Ay res, Ibis, 1880, p. 109. 



Treron delalandii, Gurncy, Ibis, 1862, p. 83 ; Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 255 

 (1867); Gurney, Ibis, 1868, p. 164; Shelley, Ibis, 1875, p. 83; 

 Holub $ Pclzeln, Orn. Siid-Afr. p. 171 (1882); Shelley, Ibis, 1882, 

 p. 258 [Umfuli Biver], 1883, p. 270; Sharpe, ed. Layard'sB. S. Afr. 

 p. 558 (1884) : Ayres, Ibis, 1885, p. 345 ; Kendall, Ibis, 1896, p. 174 ; 

 Woodward Bros. Ibis, 1898, p. 217. 



Vinago delalandei, Salvadori, Cat. B. M. xxi, p. 24 (1893) ; Shelley, 

 B. Afr. i, p. 134 (1896) ; Sowerby, Ibis, 1898, p. 575 ; Woodward Bros., 

 Natal B. p. 128 (1899) ; Marshall, Ibis, 1900, p. 261 ; Eeichenow, 

 Vog. Afr. i, p. 397 (1901) ; Shortridge, Ibis, 1904, p. 200. 



" Ijubantoto " of Natal Zulus. 



Description. Adult. Head, neck and sides of the face olive 

 green ; below the hind neck a broad collar of mauve-grey ; mantle, 

 wings and tail bright grass-green, the wing-coverts and angle of 

 the wing washed with vinaceous-pink ; wing-quills and most of the 

 larger coverts black, narrowly edged with pale yellow; lateral tail 

 feathers with the apical third distinctly paler green ; below ashy 

 olive-green mottled with bright yellow on the abdomen, the flank 



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