76 DOUBLE-COLLARED PIGEON. 



THIS species, which is stated by Fermin to be 

 a native of Surinam, is ten inches in length : the 

 beak is of a blue cast : the head and back are ash- 

 colour ; throat mixed green and black : the outer 

 wing-feathers brown, and those of the middle ash- 

 colour : the breast and belly whitish : legs red. It 

 is said to build twice a year, in woods, at a distance 

 from any habitation, on the highest trees : its flesh 

 is accounted very fine. 



DOUBLE-COLLARED PIGEON. 

 (Columba bitorquata.) 



Co. capite cano collo pectore ventreque vinaceis, dorso alisque 

 fusco-canis, remigibus canis, abdomine albo, collum torquis 

 duobus ; superiori albo ; inferiore nigro, cauda longn. 



Pigeon with the head hoary; the neck, the breast, and the 

 belly vinaceous j the back and wings of a hoary brown ; the 

 quills hoary ; the abdomen white ; the neck with two collars, 

 the upper one white, the lower black; the tail long. 



Columba bitorquatus. Temm. Pig. Ind, 477 



Colombe a double collier. Temm. Pig. (Svo.) p. 301. 



HEAD grey-brown : the neck, the belly, and the 

 breast of a vinaceous colour: the nape is orna- 

 mented with two collars ; the upper one is of a 

 pure white, and the lower black : the back, the 

 scapulars, and the middle wing-coverts are of an 

 earthy grey : the lesser coverts are of a blue lead- 



