WATTLED PIGEON. 



the feet and claws are dusky blue. Inhabits 

 Southern Africa and Madagascar. 



WATTLED PIGEON. 

 (Columba auricularis.) 



Co. alba naribus globosis, orbitis cottoque nitdis cctruleis, tribns 



carunculis gularibus sanguineis y remigibus primoribus caudaque 



ad apicem nigris. 

 White Pigeon, with the nostrils globose ; the orbits and neck 



naked blue, with three blood-red caruncles on the throat; 



the primary quills and tip of the tail black. 

 Columba auricularis. Temm. Pig. Ind. 465. 

 Colombe Oricou. Temm. Pig. (8vo.) 236. 



IN length about eleven inches and a half: the 

 cheeks, as far as the aperture of the ears, are naked 

 and blue ; the skin hangs down in front of the 

 neck, forming three caruncles, which are of a 

 blood-red colour : the nostrils are surrounded with 

 a kind of globose wattle : the plumage is of an 

 uniform white : the tail alone is greyish at its base, 

 and black towards its tip : the outer webs of the 

 lateral feathers are white for about three quarters of 

 their length : the greater and lesser quills are white 

 at their origin, and black towards their tips, the 

 outer feather of each wing being entirely of the 

 latter colour : the spurious wing is of a grey-black : 

 the feet are red and the beak black. This appears 



