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neck ; this colour reaches down towards the breast, 

 which is yellowish ; on the lower part of which is 

 a large black velvety belt passing upwards, close 

 to the base of the wing, forming a kind of mantle 

 of a greenish-black on the upper part of the back ; 

 and reaching some deep green shades upon the 

 greater feathers of the wing ; the six outer ones 

 being somewhat rounded at their tips : the rump 

 is greenish : the tail is composed of fourteen fea- 

 thers ; its upper parts are of a black-green ; the 

 whole of the feathers are terminated with grey, 

 and a stripe of greenish : below the tail is ash- 

 coloured, and the tips of the feathers are white : 

 the belly, the thighs, and the abdomen are of a 

 beautiful yellow : the tail-coverts are grey, fringed 

 with yellow on the borders of the feathers : the 

 tarsi are covered with feathers : the feet are yel- 

 low : the beak yellowish-brown. 

 Native of Southern Asia. 



MARTINICO PIGEON. 

 (Columba aurita.) 



Co. fusco-rufescens torque violacco-aured, alit nigro-muculatis, 

 gutture albo, partibus inferioribvs cinerasccntibus, rcctricilus in- 

 termtdiis fufds cecteris nigro tcrminatis, npice summo albo. 

 Mas. Pennis ceeruleis rr aureo nittnte sub orifids auris. 



Brown-red Pigeon, with a violet golden collar, the wings spot- 

 ted with black, the throat white, the inferior parts of the 



