AFRICAN PIGEON. 



orange : and the feet are bright red. Tfie female 

 is rather less than the male, and the colours are 

 not so vivid. 



Inhabits the south-west coast of Africa, from 

 the Camis mountains to the Grand Namaquois, 

 on the borders of Hausi, and is amazingly abundant 

 on the Grand River, the Orange, and other rivers : 

 its nest is constructed in trees : the female lays 

 two white eggs. 



AFRICAN PIGEON. 



(Columba Afra.) 



Co. grisco-fusca, subtus albida, maculis tectricum alarum violaceo- 

 azureis, rectricibus extimis basi exteriore macnlaque apicis 

 albis. 



Grey-brown Pigeon, beneath whitish, with the wing-coverts 

 with violaceous blue spots, the lateral tail-feathers at the base 

 on the outside, and a spot at their tips, white. 



Columba Afra. Linn. Syst.Nat. 1. 214,Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 

 706. p. 31. Lath. Ind. Om. 2. 6ll. 64. Temm. Pig. Ind. 

 476. 



Turtur senegalensis. Briss. Orn. 1. 122. 1. 10. f. 1. 



Tourterelle du Senegal. Buff. Ois. 2. 553. Buff. PI. Enl. 100. 



Tourterelle Emeraudine. Le Vaill. Ois. d'Afriq. 6. pi. 271. 



Colombe Emeraudine. Temm. Pig. (Svo.) p. 291. 



African Turtle. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 656. 55. 



LESS than the Turtle Dove : length eight inches : 

 the beak reddish: the top of the head ash-coloured: 

 v. xi. P. i. 6 



