IS5 



* * No caruncle at the base of the beak. 



BLUE-HEADED GOURA. 

 (Goiira cyanocephala.) 



Go. vinaceo-Jusca^ capite gul&que c&ruleis, fascid suboculnrit 



alba. 

 Vinaceous- brown Goura, with the head and throat blue, and a 



white stripe beneath the eye. 

 Columba cyanocephala. Linn. Syst. Nat. 1. 282. 2O. Gntel. 



Syst. Nat. l. 778. 20. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 608. 54. Teinm. 



Pig. Ind. 491. 



Turtur Jamaicensis. Briss. Orn. 1. 135. 32. pi. I3.f. 1. 

 Tourterelle de la Jamafque. Buff. Ois. 2. 55B.Buf. PL Enl. 



174. 

 Colombi-Galline a cravate noire. Le Vaill. Ois. <f Afrique. v. 



6. pi. 28l.Temm. Pig. (8ro.) p. 39O. 

 Turtle-Dove from Jamaica. Albin. 2. pi. 49. 

 Blue-headed Turtle. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 651. 45. Lath. Syn. 



Sup. 200. 45. 



FOUND throughout the warmer parts of America : 

 length eleven inches : beak red at its base, and 

 grey at its tip : the crown of the head and the 

 throat blue ; the colour passing down the middle 

 of the fore-part of the neck ; beneath this the fea- 

 thers are black, with some of them having a trans- 

 verse stripe of white towards their tips : from the 

 lower jaw to the liind-part of the head, passing 

 beneath the eye, is a white stripe : the hind-part 

 of the neck, back, rump, wing and tail-coverts, 

 vinaceous brown : the fore-part of the neck and 



