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B. Head not crested. 

 * With a caruncle at the base oftlie beak. 



NICOBAR GOURA. 

 (Goiira Nicobarica.) 



Go. corpore eeneo, pennis colli angustis elongatis, remigibus ex 



caerulescente viridibus, caudd alba, bast rostri caruncula com- 



pressd. (Femina, caret caruncula in fronted) 

 Goura with a brassy body, the feathers on the neck narrow and 



elongated, the quills of a green-blue, the tail white, the base 



of the beak with a compressed caruncle. (Female without 



the frontal caruncle.) 

 Columba Nicobarica. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 605. 44. Gmel. 



Syst. Nat. 1. 783. Ij.Temm. Pig. Ind. p. 445Briss. Orn. 



1. 153.44. 



Pigeon de Nicobar. Buff. Ois. 2. 541. Buff. PI. Enl. 491. 

 Colombi-Galline a cainail. Temm. Pig. (8vo.) p. 385. Le 



Vaill. Ois. d'Afriq. 6. pi. Ijg. 

 Nicobar Pigeon. Edwards, pi. 33Q. Albin. 3. pi. 47 and 48. 



Lath. Gen. Syn. 4.642. 38. 



BEAK dusky : irides hazel : the head, neck, 

 breast, belly, thighs, and under tail-coverts of 

 a dark bluish purple : the feathers on the neck 

 are very long and pointed, reflecting rich hues of 

 blue, red, gold, and copper : at the base of the 

 beak is a depressed caruncle : the back, and 

 upper parts of the wings, rich green, changing to 

 copper anil gold ; some of the outer quills, and 

 the coverts above them, bright blue : the tail and 

 upper coverts white : legs reddish : the female 



