Ply, G iKj3O ®t. 
the black furrounds the neck, the under parts are white, but the fides 
of the body near the wings, and the vent, marked with feveral {pots 
of black: the tail is black, tipped with white. 
This feems greatly allied to the laft, perhaps differing only in fex 
or age. Both of them were feen at Port Fack/on, in New Holland, in 
December. 
Waalia Pigeon, Bruce’s Trav. iv. p. 282. 200.—/d. App. tab. p. 186. 
HIS is lefs than the Common Blue Pigeon, but larger than the 
Turtle Dove: the general colour is green, inclining to olive: 
head and neck darker and lefs lively than the reft: the pinion of the 
wing is of a beautiful pompadour colour; the outer edge of the wing 
narrowly marked with white: tail dirty pale blue; below the tail 
fpotted brown and white: thighs white, fpotted with brown: belly 
of a lively yellow: the bill is a blueifh white ; noftrils large: irides 
dark orange: legs yellowifh brown; feet large. 
This inhabits the low parts of Abyfinia; perches on the higheft 
trees, fitting quietly during the heat of the day; flies, high, and in 
valt flocks ; frequents moftly a fpecies of beech treé, on the maft 
of which it feems chiefly to live. In the beginning of the rainy 
feafon, in the Kollz, they emigrate to the fouth and fouth weft, and 
are frequently fo extremely fat,as to burft on their falling to the 
ground. Mr. Brucz, from-whom the above account is taken, ob- 
ferves, that it is the fatteft and beft of all the Pigeon kind; yet the 
Abyffinians will not tafte the flefh, holding it in abhorrence. The 
name Waalia, given to it by Mr. Bruce, is from the bird being fre- . 
quently met with there, and lies due north weft from Gondar : it feems 
greatly allied to the Pompadour Pigeon *. 
* Gen, Sya.iv, p. 624. 
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