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©fa fine blue colour, but the quills are gloffed with green and 

 violet, in different lights : the tail of a very fine blue, gloffed 

 with violet; the two middle feathers exceed the others but 

 very little : legs and claws black.. 

 Place. This is found at Madagafcar*. 



30. Le grand Coucou de Madagafcar, Brif. orn. iv. p. 16.0, M° 28. pi. ic. fete 



AFRICAN -Pl.enl.&.thenak. 



Le Vourou-driou, Buf. oif. vi. p. 395. 



C. 



Description QIZE of a large Pigeon : length fifteen inches. Bill two inches 



Male. l° n g> blackifh, and more ftrait than ufual in this genus : the 



head, throat, and neck, are cinereous : crown of the head blackifh, 

 gloffed with green and copper: from the bill to the eye, on each 

 fide, is a flender black line : the back, rump, fcapulars, and upper 

 wing and tail coverts, green, gloffed with copper : breaft, belly, 

 fides, thighs, under wing and tail coverts, bright grey : greater 

 quills blackifh ; the leffer quills dull green, with a fine green 

 and copper glofs : the tail is compofed of twelve feathers, of 

 equal lengths, above copper and green-gold, beneath black : the' 

 legs reddiih : claws black. 



tq,, Le grand Coucou de Madagafcar, Brif.orn. }v. p> 16.2.. pi. .15./. 2.— Pit 



Var. A. e „l, 5 S3.—Buf. oif. vi. p, 396. 



B^scrip-tkxn. nr»HE female is bigger than the male : and is in length feven- 

 Female,. teen inches and a half. The bill is two inches and one-third 



in length, and of a brown colour : head, throat, and hind part of' 



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