, EGYPTIAN PIGEON. 

 (Columba ./Egyptiaca.) 



Co. testaceo-incarnata, gull plantis apicc bilobis truncatis Jer- 



rugineis nigro-maculatis. 

 Testaceous flesh-coloured Pigeon, with the feathers on the 



throat spotted with black, at their tips bilobed and truncated, 



of a ferruginous hue. 

 Columba ^gyptiaca. Lath. 2nd. Orn. 2. 607. 4g. Temm. 



Pig. Ind. 461. 



Colombe Egyptienne. Temm. Pig. (Qvo.) 3?O. 

 Egyptian Pigeon. Lath. Gen. Syn. Sup. II. p. 267. 3. 



BEAK black : head flesh- colour, with a tinge 

 of violet : orbits naked and bluish : the feathers 

 on the throat wedge-shaped, divided at their tips, 

 and truncated at the ends ; they are black at their 

 origin, and rusty flesh-colour at their tips : the 

 back is grey : th.e breast violet : belly and thighs 

 white : wings principally brown ; the two outer 

 tail-feathers at their base cinereous ; the middle 

 black, and terminated by white ; the two next on 

 each side grey at their base, black in the middle, 

 and white at the tip only ; the fifth brown on each 

 side, with the middle dusky ; the two middle ones 

 entirely brown : legs flesh-colour. Inhabits Egypt, 

 frequenting houses. 



