MAUGEIAN PIGEON. 99 



Pigeon with the forehead and throat dusky ; the neck, breast, 

 and sides, undulated with black and white ; the two middle 

 tail-feathers brown, the rest black, with white towards their 

 tips. 



Columba Maugei. Temm. Pig. Ind. p. 490. 



Colombe Maug6. Temm. Pig. (Suo.) p. 363. 



THE total length of this bird is ten inches : the 

 body is not much larger than that of the Starling : 

 the tail is very long, and is composed of twelve 

 feathers, and is greatly cuneiform ; the outer fea- 

 thers are not much above half the length of the 

 middle ones : the forehead, and the throat, are of 

 a greyish lead-colour : the fore -part of the neck, 

 the breast, the sides, and the belly, are striped 

 with regular alternate bands of white and black : 

 the back is of a grey-brown, with many irregular 

 deeper spots : the two middle tail-feathers are of 

 a grey-brown throughout their whole length ; the 

 lateral ones are black, terminated with white : the 

 beak and legs are black. 



Native of the islands of Southern Asia, dis- 

 covered there by Mons. Mange", and named after 

 that zealous but unfortunate naturalist, by Tem- 

 minck : its manners are unknown. 



