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♦*► ORDER GALLINiE. 95 



belly, deep-green ; quills, black, tipped with yellow ; 

 legs, red. Sumatra. 



C. Capellei. Col. 143. 



Face, light-ash ; top of head, throat, nape, back, and 

 belly, deep-green, waved with blue ; quills, black, 

 tipped with yellow ; tail, black, tipped with ash ; 

 breast patch, obscure yellowish-red. Sumatra. 



Some of these also have a pointed tail. 



C. Oxyura. Tern. Col. 240. 



Green ; obscure bar across the breast, reddish ; quills, 

 black ; tail-feather, black, tipped with ash ; beneath, 

 yellow. Java.* 



* Purple-shouldered Pigeon, Lath. Columba Pkesnicoptera, Lath. C. 

 Militaris, var. Tem. 



Olive J beneath, ash; head and neck, yellowish; smaller wing-coverts, 

 purple: larger wing-coverts and secondaries, white and black banded, 

 India. 



This species is liable to several variations. The first, with a black band on 

 the lateral tail-feathers, and yellow beak, is the Hook-billed Pigeon, Columba 

 Cuvrirostra, Lath. The second, with the cheek and throat, yellow, the Pom- 

 pador Pigeon, or C. Pompadora, Lath. From Ceylon. The third, with the 

 cheek and throat, yellow, and the back and wing-coverts green, the 

 Yellow-faced Pigeon, Brown, lUust. t. 20. C. Tannemis, Lath. The fourth, 

 with the head, neck, and chest, yellow; belly, ash: tail, greenish. See 

 Temm. Fig. t. 6. 



Also the Col. Purpurea, Lath. 



