70 WHITE PIGEON. 



tail is of a whitish blue, and more clear than the 

 head : the upper parts of the shoulders are orna- 

 mented with five or six violet-black spots, which 

 change to green in various positions : the greater 

 wing-coverts are marked with seven or eight simi- 

 lar spots, of which three are of the colour of the 

 rest of the wing, and the other five of a tobacco 

 colour ; each spot is bordered with a transverse 

 black line : the quills are of a dusky brown, as is 

 the beak : the feet are red. Inhabits Bengal. 

 Named by Temminck after Geoffroy St. Hillaire. 



WHITE PIGEON. 

 (Columba alba.) 



Co. corpore albo, caudA brew. 

 Pigeon with a white body and short tail. 

 Columba alba. Temm. Pig. Ind. p. 484. 

 Colombe blanche. Temm. Pig. (8vo.) p. 333. 



THIS greatly resembles the white variety of C. 

 risoria, but it is much less than that bird, and its 

 tail is considerably shorter; the wings are also 

 longer in proportion : the whole of the plumage is 

 of a pure milk-white colour: the feet are red: 

 irides the same ; and the beak is of a dusky red : 

 originally a native of China, but now domesticated 

 in many parts of Europe. 



