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SPOTTED GREEN PIGEON. 

 (Columba Picazuro.) 



Co. saturate viridis, corpore rufra albido-maculato abdomint nigri- 



cante, cauda nigrd apice ferrugined. 

 Dark-green Pigeon, with the body above spotted with whitish, 



the abdomen dusky, and the tail black, with a ferruginous 



tip. 

 Columba maculata. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 60S. 43. Gmel. Syst. 



Nat. l. 780.Temm. Pig. 465. (Ind.) 

 Spotted Green Pigeon. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 642. 3 7. 



THE Spotted Green Pigeon of Latham is in 

 length twelve inches : its beak is black, tipped with 

 pale yellow : the prevailing colour of the plumage 

 is dark glossy green ; the head and neck are 

 darkest, and of a plain colour : the feathers of the 

 latter are long and narrow, like a cock's hackles : 

 each feather of the wings and scapulars is tipped 

 with a spot of pale cinereous white, with a point 

 running upwards in a triangular position : the 

 quills and tail are black ; the feathers of the first 

 tipped with greyish white, and those of the last 

 with ferruginous white ; the tail is even at the 

 end : the belly, thighs, and vent, are dusky black : 

 the legs are brown : the tarsi covered half way 

 with downy feathers : claws black. 



