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DESCRIPTION. 
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DescripTioNn. 
Pie Geen. Ne 
IZE of a Turtle; length ten inches: general colour of the plumage 
deep reddifh brown; a little paler on the breaft; from thence all 
beneath is pale reddifh white: the eye is brown, placed in a bare 
blueifh white fkin: the bill black, a trifle bent at the end; the nof- 
trils apparent, but not protuberant: the quills are deep brown: on 
the leffer coverts, three or four marks of blackifh purple: tail fhort, 
cuneiform, the feathers rather pointed at the ends; the two middle 
feathers black brown, with a bar of black about three quarters of an 
inch from the end; the others brown, but white for about one inch. 
next the tip, the two colours joining in a lunular form;, the outer 
feathers white on the outer web the whole of its length: legs red. 
Inhabits New Holland: 1 faw a fpecimen of this at Mr. Swain/on’s.. 
It feems to be much allied to the Martinico Pigeon, ox its variety.. 
HE bill and legs in this bird are brown: the general colour of 
the plumage greenifh white: the head and neck inclining to afh 
colaur: the greater quills are plain; but the reft marked’ irregularly 
with black on each fide the fhafts: the two middle tail feathers are- 
dufky, the others very pale or whitifh: the outer edge of the wings: 
and the quills are dufky. 
Inhabits New Holland. 
Columba Suratenfis, Ind. Orn. ii. p. Gog. 55. 
La Tourterelle de Surate, Sonn. Voy. Ind. it. p. 17.9: 
IZE of the Collared Turtle: bill black: irides and legs re: the 
general colour of the plumage is grey: the upper part of the 
neck black; the nape white: back part of the neck fafciated with 
9 rufous.: 
