NUTMEG PIGEON. 21 



the time, uttering its cry : it is a great enemy to 

 the White Eagle of Le Vaillant. 



NUTMEG PIGEON. 



{Columba senea.) 



Co. corpore teneo, rostro virescente, pectore abdojnineque subtus 

 griseo-c&ruleis, remigibus cauddque ex ccerulescente viridibus. 

 Femina. Capite pectore abdomineque subtus griseo-rufis, re- 

 migibus cauddque viridi-nigris. 



Pigeon, with a brassy body, the beak greenish, the breast and 

 abdomen beneath of a greyish-blue ; the quills and tail of a 

 bluish -green. Female, with the head, breast, and abdomen 

 beneath of a rufous-grey ; the quills and tail green-black. 



Columba aenea. Linn. Syst. Nat. 1. 283. 22. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 

 1. 780. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 602. 33.Temm. Pig. Ind. ;>.446. 



Palumbus Moluccensis. Brist. Orn. \. 148. 41. t. 13. f. 2. 



Pigeon ramier des Moluques. Buff. Ois. 2. 538. -Buff. PI. Enl. 

 164. 



Pigeon cuivre" mangeur de muscade. Sonncr. Voy. Ind. 168. 

 1O2. var. 



Colombe muscadivore. Temm. Pig. edit. Qvo. p. 86. 



Nutmeg Pigeon. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 636. 30. *. 637. 30. . 



THE adult male of this species has the whole of 

 the head, the neck, and the under parts of the 

 plumage of a beautiful grey-blue : the shoulders, 

 the back, the great and little wing-coverts of a 

 deep green, with metallic reflections ; the primary 

 quills and secondaries are of a blue-green : the 



