( i'7 ) 

 THE BRONZE- WINGED PIGEON. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Bill weak, flender, ftrait at the bafe, with a ibft protuberance in \\Iiicli 



the noftrils are lodged. 

 Tongue entire. 

 Legs fliort : toes divided to the origin. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER, &c. 



Brownifli Pigeon, with red beak and legs ; tlie coverts each marked with 



a Ipot of golden copper-colour. 

 Golden-winged pigeon. 



Whitis Voyage to New South 1 Vales, p. 146. 



THIS fpecies may certainly be numbered amongfl the mod beautiful 

 birds hitherto difcovered in the continent of New Holland. Its fize is 

 nearly that of a wood-pigeon, but it is longer and of a more elegant form. 

 The colour above is a fine pale brown, the larger wing-coverts being each 

 marked by a broad patch of lucid copper-colour, and by their pofition on 

 the wing forming fo many rows of large cupreous fpots, of the richeft me- 

 tallic fplendor, and accompanied by a degree of varying luftre, which adds 

 in a fingular manner to the elegance and beauty of the bird. Each of 



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