RED-CROWNED PIGEON. 11 



tips : the lower part of the back and the rump 

 pale ash. The female differs from the male in 

 having the colours less lively, the triangular white 

 spots on the wings much smaller and more dingy : 

 and the naked space round the eyes is not so 

 large as in the male. 



Very common in all the southern parts of Africa : 

 it builds upon the top of trees, or on rocks ; the 

 female lays two white eggs: its principal food 

 is grain. 



RED-CROWNED PIGEON. 

 (Columba rubricapilla.) 



Co. atro-violacea, pileo orbitisque nudis rubris, collo dorso su- 



periore pectoreque grisescentibus, pedibus plumosis. 

 Dark violet Pigeon, with the pileus and naked orbits red ; the 



neck, upper part of the back, and breast greyish j the feet 



feathered. 

 Columba rubricapilla. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 784. Lath. Ind. 



Orn. 2. 599. Ip. Temm. Pig. Ind. 464. 

 La Pigeon violet tete rouge d'Antigue. Sonner. Voy. Ind. 



112. t. 67. 



Colombe rouge Cap. Temm. Pig. (8w.) 233. 

 Red-crowned Pigeon. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 628. 1/. 



TEN inches in length : with the tail very short : 

 the wings, when folded, reaching to its tip : the 

 feathers of the belly, the back, the wings, and the 

 tail, are of a fine black-blue, with violet shades ; 



