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TH E bill in this genus is weak, (lender, {trait at the bafe, 

 with a foft protuberance, in which the noftrils are 

 lodged. 



Tongue entire. 



Legs fhort, and red for the moftpart: toes divided to the origin. 

 General manners well known ; fcarcely diffimilar to thofe re- 

 marked under the head ofBifet. 



!• Columba anas, Lin. Syft. i. p. 279. 1, (3. — Faun. Suec. N° 207. — Fri/ch. t. 



+■ STOCK P. i i9 .~.Ga>rgi Rei/e, p. 173. 



Le Pigeon fauvage, Brif. orn. i. p. 86. N° 5. 



Oenas, five Vinago, Stock Dove, Rail Sjn. p. 62. A. 10. — Witt. orn. p. 

 185. pi. 35. — Alhiu. ii. pi. 46.— Br. Zoo!, v. 2. Jfp. — ArS. Zool. 

 Lev. Muf. 



Description. T. ENGTH fourteen inches. The bill pale red: head afh- 

 coloured : hind part of the neck, and fides, green gold, 

 glofled with copper in different lights : the upper part of the 

 back and wings dull afb-colour : the lower part of the back, 

 rump, and upper tail coverts, lighter afh-colour : fore part of the 

 neck afh-colour ; the lower part of it, and the breaft, vinaceous : 

 belly, thighs, and under tail coverts, pale afh-colour : the four 

 or five outer quills are black, with the exterior edges white ; the 

 reft afh-colour, with the ends black : on each wing are two tranf- 

 verfe bars of black : the tail is afh-colour, with one-third of the 

 end black ; two of the outer tail feathers white from the bafe 

 to the middle on the outer edge : the legs are red : the claws 

 black. 



Columba 



