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arc black, the latter edged with yellowish : the 

 belly is grey-brown : the abdomen and towards 

 the thighs yellowish : the under tail-coverts red : 

 the tail-feathers, fourteen in number, grey-brown 

 at their base, then black, and tipped with bright 

 grey ; the two middle ones being entirely of the 

 latter colour : the legs are fine red : the iris is 

 composed of two circles, the outer red, the inner 

 blue : the female is destitute of the lilac and 

 yellow-orange on the breast, this part as well as 

 the whole of the lower parts of the body being of 

 a bright greenish-yellow : the head and the hinder 

 part of the neck are of a grey-blue : in other 

 respects similar to the male. 



Inhabits the islands of Lucon and Antigua, and 

 is said to be found at certain seasons in Java. 



SOUTHERN VINAGO. 

 (Vinago australis.) 



Vi. viridia, crissojemoribusque maciilatis, humeris violaceis, remi- 

 gibus nigris, secundariis ad apicemjlavo-marginatis, cauddgriseA 

 ad apicem pallidiore. 



Green Vinago, with the vent and thighs spotted ; the shoulders 

 violet; the quills black, the secondaries towards their tips 

 edged with yellow ; the tail grey, with the tip pale. 



Columba Australis. Linn. Maret. \J7\. p. 526. Gmel. Syst. 

 Nat. 1. 779. Lath. Ind. Om. 2 604. 41. -TYmm. Hist. Nat. 

 det Pig. Ind. p. 440. 



