98 MAUGEIAN PIGEON. 



ash-colour : the tail-feathers are of very unequal 

 lengths ; the two middle ones are longest, and the 

 others gradually shorter, till the most outward 

 ones do not exceed above half the length of the 

 central ones, which are of a grey-brown, marked 

 with black about their middle, and bright grey 

 towards their tip : the three lateral ones are grey 

 from their origin to their middle ; the rest are black: 

 the eyes are situated in a naked space : the irides 

 are brown : the beak is horn-coloured ; and the 

 legs reddish. 



The female is smaller than the male, and does 

 not possess the black violaceous spot beneath the 

 ears : the feathers on the sides and the base of the 

 neck do not reflect the golden hues : the fore-part 

 of the neck and 'the breast are of a grey-brown, 

 which colour also predominates over nearly the 

 whole of the under parts of the bird. 



Found in Carolina, Brasil, Porto Rico, and St. 

 Domingo ; in the former place they occur at all 

 seasons. 



MAUGEIAN PIGEON. 

 (Columba Maugei. ) 



Co.Jronte guldgue nigricantibus , collo pectore hypochondriisquc 

 albo nigroque undulatis, rectricibus duabus intermediis Jiuds 

 reliquis nigris, versus apicem albis. 



