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SAINT DOMINGO PIGEON. 

 (Columba Dominicensis.) 



Co corpore griseo, capite subtus albo, macula verticis Jascid sub 



oculis et torque colli nigris, pectore vinaceo* crisso albo, caudd 



griseA: rectricibus extimis albis. 

 Pigeon with a grey body, the head beneath white j a spot on the 



crown, fascia beneath the eyes, and collar on the neck, black; 



the breast of a vinaceous colour, the vent white, the taiV grey, 



the outer feathers tipped with white. 

 Columba Dominicensis. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 615. 79. Temm. 



Pig. Ind. 48Q. 



Tourterelle de St. Domingue. Buff. PI. Enl. 487 

 Colombe a moustaches noires. Temm. Pig. (Q-oo.) p. 361. 

 Saint Domingo Pigeon: Lttth. Gen. Syn. Sup. II. 271. 



THIS elegant species, which is well figured in 

 the Planches Enluminees of Buffon, is a native of 

 St. Domingo, and most probably of other parts of 

 the West Indies : its total length is eleven inches : 

 its tail is longer in proportion to any of the rest of 

 the genus : the forehead, and the region of the 

 eyes, are white ; the throat is the same : this colour 

 passes down each side of the neck, and joins on 

 the nape, forming a kind of collar : on the top of 

 the head is a broad transverse band of black, 

 which divides into two parts ; from the base of the 

 beak arises a streak of black, which passes beneath 

 the eyes, as far as the ear : the neck has a narrow 

 collar of the same colour, which is placed about 

 its middle : the breast is of a vinaceous colour j 



