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TRIANGULAR-SPOTTED PIGEON. 



(Columba Guinea.) 



Co. corpore purpurasccnte-Jusco violacco-nitente, alis maculis albi* 

 triguelris, rectricibus apice nigris, pennis pectoralibus bifurds. 



Pigeon, with the body of a purple brown, shining with violet j 

 the wings with triangular white spots ; the tail-feathers 

 black at their tips, and the feathers on the breast bifid. 



Columba Guinea. Linn. Syst. Nat. 1 . 232. 16. Gmel. Syst. 

 Nat. 1. 774 Briss. Orn. 1. 132. 3Q.Temm. Pig. Ind. 462. 

 Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 603. 35. 



Pigeon de Guinee. Buff". Ois. 2. 538. 



La Tourterelle du Cap de Bonne Esp6rauce. Sonner. Voy. Ind. 



2. 179- 



Colombe roussard. Le Vaill. Ois. $ Afrique. v. 6. pi. 265. 



Temm. Pig. (8uo.) 214. 

 Triangular-spotted Pigeon. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 63Q. 32. 



TWELVE inches and a half in length : the beak 

 is dusky, and the membrane that covers the nos- 

 trils grey : the eyes are surrounded with a naked 

 red space : the irides bright yellow : the head, 

 neck, and under parts of the body pale ash-colour : 

 belly and vent white : the feathers of the neck are 

 pointed, of an ash-colour, with vinaceous margins ; 

 their tips are bifid : the upper part of the back, the 

 scapulars, and the whole of the wing-coverts pur- 

 plish brown, glossed with violet ; the lesser quills 

 the same ; each feather is tipped with a triangular 

 white spot, the point upwards : the greater and 

 middle quills black, with grey edges : the tail-fea- 

 thers grey at their origin, and black towards their 



