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BLUE AND GREEN TURTELINE 



Ptilinopus cyano-virens LESSON. 

 PLATE V. 



Columba cyano-virens, Lesson, Vog. de la Coquille, pi. 42, 

 M. and F Id. Man. d'Ornith. ii. 169. 



THIS species, which vies in beauty of plumage 

 with the preceding, is a native of New Guinea, where 

 it dwells in the evergreen forests of these equatorial 

 regions, and where, from the frequent low cooings 

 which were heard hy the crew of the Coquille, 

 when on a voyage of discovery to these parts, it ap- 

 pears to be very abundant. Its total length barely 

 exceeds eight inches. The bill is slender, the basal 

 part black, the tip or horn of a light grey. The 

 sides are reddish-brown. The tarsi are short and fea- 

 thered nearly to the toes, which are of a rich orange 

 yellow, and their structure similar to those of the 

 P. purpuratus. The upper part of the body, wings, 

 tail, lower breast, and sides, are bright grass green. 

 Upon the occiput is a large spot or bar of indigo 

 blue, which colour also occupies the shaft or central 

 part of the scapulars, and some of the lesser wing- 



