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PHEASANT-TAILED PIGEON. 



Columba phasianella. TEMM. 

 PLATE VIII. 



Columba phasianella, Temm. PI. Col. t. 100. Id. in Trans, 

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

 Juv. 



THE group or genus to which this species bdongs 

 is distributed throughout the Isles of Sonda, the 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. nichali 

 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 au 

 analysis of the species as the subject require, but 

 we believe it will be found to enter among thfPtili- 

 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 very short and partly lumed 

 below the joint, the former with the extern* toe 

 longer than the inner, and the binder toe fu^ deve- 



