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WHITE-FACED 
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DescrRiPTION. 
PLAcs. 
PigD 
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DEsCRIPTION. 
BPG TE MOF NI 
breaft violet flefh colour: belly and thighs whitifh: wings chiefly 
brown: the two outermoft tail feathers are cinereous at the bafe, 
in the middle black, the reft white; the two next on each fide 
cinereous at the bafe, black in the middle, and whitifh at the very 
, tip; the fifth on each fide brown, with a dufky middle; andthe two 
middle ones wholly brown: legs flefh colour. 
Inhabits Egypt; moftly feen about houfes: whether this is the moft 
common {pecies which frequents thofe parts is not faid; but Savary * 
informs us, that in Egypt, Pigeons are more numerous than in any 
other country whatever, being in fuch vaft flights as to darken the 
air; and this feems credible, as every hamlet, every town, as we are 
‘told, forms one vaft pigeon. houfe. 
‘HIS is much larger than our Turile: the bill and legs reddith: _ 
face and fides of the head, as far as the eyes, white: before each 
eye a triangle of black, and behind a crimfon fpot: crown and hind 
head pale afh; and the reft of the neck dufky: upper part of the 
body and wings dull green; fome of the inner quills ferruginous : 
beneath from the breaft white; fides of the breaft next the wings 
black: fides of the body marked with a double feries of black {pots. 
Inhabits New Holland: native name Goad-gang. 
: GIZE of the laft: bill and legs the fame: ‘the whole of the face, 
reaching beyond the eyes, white: the general colour of the 
plumage ereenifh black on the upper parts, which colour wholly fur- . 
rounds the neck; and below this, coming forward on each fide irre- 
gularly on the breaft, but not meeting thereon; from that part where 
® Letters on Egypt. Let. 31. 
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