92 CLASS AVES. 



long slender feathers, feathers of back wing-coverts, 

 ash, reddish-tipped; large wing-coverts, brilliant- 

 green ; secondaries, purplish, white edged ; side 

 of tail, violet-black, white tipped. 



C. Venusta. PL Col. 100. 

 341. or Col. Strepitans. Spix, 75 — 81. 



Ashy ; beneath and forehead, white tipped ; head, 

 lead-colour ; chest, fulvous ; quills, black ; wing- 

 coverts, white tipped ; humerus, with a purple band ; 

 tail, longish ; three outer quills, white ; rest, ashy. 

 Brazils. 



St. Domingo Pigeon. Lath. C. Dominicensis. Lath, 

 lb. 487. Tern. 51. 



Body, grey ; head, beneath, white ; crown spot, 

 band under eye, and collar, black ; chest, vinaceous ; 

 vent, white ; tail, grey ; outermost feather, white. St. 

 Domingo. Length, eleven inches. 



Cape Pigeon. Lath. Col. Capensis. Lath. lb. 140. 

 Vaill. 273, 4. Tern. 53, 4. 



Body, grey-brown ; beneath, white ; inner edge of 

 primaries, rufous ; tail-feather, very long ; beneath, 

 black ; both ends, white. Male, forehead and throat, 

 black ; wing, with shining steel-colour spots. 



C. Maugei. Tem. 52. 



Forehead and throat blackish ; neck, chest, and hypo- 

 chondria, black and white waved ; tail, middle, 

 brown ; rest, black ; white tipped. South Sea 

 Islands. Length, ten inches. 



C. Macquaria. Quoy. and Gam. 

 Voy. de Freyc. t. 31. 



Tail, long ; head, chest, and rump, ash-blue ; orbits. 



