114- PURPLE VltfAGOV 



(Jreen Vinago, with two lunules on the breast, the upper one 



violet, the lower yellow ; the wing-coverts tipped with yellow ; 



the tail of a hoary white, tipped with hoary. Female greenish 



grey, beneath greenish yellow. 

 Columba vernans. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 789. 69. Lath. Ind. 



Orn. 2. 599. 22,,Temm. Pig. Ind. 443. 

 Columba purpurea. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2* 599. 20. Gmel. Syst. 



Nat. i. 784. 6l. 

 Columba viridis Philippensis. Briss. Orn. 1. 143. 38. pi. 11. 



/2. 

 Pigeon vert des Philippines. Ruff. Ois. 2. 528. Buffi PI. Enl. 



138. (male.) 

 Le Pigeon vert de 1'isle de Lu<jon. Sonner. Voy.Ind. 110. p. 



64 and 65. (male and female.) 

 Colombar Jojoo. Temm. Pig. (Svo.J p. 70. 

 Purple Pigeon. Broum Illust. Zool. p. 18. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 



628. 18. 

 Parrot Pigeon, Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. c. 629. 2O. 



THIS greatly resemble? the Pigeon in its beak, 

 which is slenderer and more swoln at the tip than 

 in the generality of the birds in this genus : the 

 total length of the bird is ten inches : the beak 

 is short, and the horny substance at its base is 

 whitish ; the soft part is reddish : the head of the 

 male, the throat, and the whole of the under part 

 of the neck are of a grey -blue : on the breast are 

 two broad belts ; the upper is of a beautiful lilac, 

 and the lower of a yellow-orange : some indi- 

 viduals have a lilac stripe on the sides of the neck 

 and the nape : the back, the scapulars, and the 

 whole of the wing-coverts are of a deep olive- 

 green, the whole of the latter being terminated 

 with a large yellow spot, forming a band of that 

 colour across the wing : the quills and secondaries 



