﻿6sS PIGEON. 



coverts, light clay-colour: a white mark on each fide under the 

 eye, and another at the fide of the throat, and juft at the joint of 

 each wing. 



Theie build in trees which have low boughs ; and line their 

 nefts with hair and cotton. At firft fight have greatly the ap- 

 pearance of a Partridge 



TETRAOID P Columba tetraoides, Scop. am. i. p. 125. N» 180. 



Description. ALL the defcription we have of this bird is, that it equals the 

 Red-legged Partridge in fize : the head and neck black, en- 

 compafied with a white margin, as in that bird. 



He does not Inform us from whence it came, but that it was 

 then living in a menagery. From the name he has given to it, 

 we may conclude it to have fomewhat the appearance of the Red- 

 legged Partridge *. 



Columba leucocephala, Lin. Syft. i. p. 281. N° 14. 

 WHITE- ^e P'g e on de Roche de la Jamaique, Brif. orn. i. p. 137. N° 33. 



CROWNED P. Columba minor capite albo, Raii Syn. p. 63. N° 18. 184. N° 24. 



Bald-pated Pigeon, Sloan. Jam. p. 303. t. 261. f. 2. — Broiunjam. p. 468. 

 White-crowned Pigeon, Catejb. Car. i. pi. 25. — Ar3. Zool. 



Lev. Muf. 



Description-, T ENGTH ten inches and a half. The bill red, with a 



white tip : the eyes are furrounded with a white (kin ; the 



irides yellow : the top of the head is white ; beneath it change- 



* Perhaps fomewhat allied to the laft, 



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