﻿PIGEON. 



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Lev. Muf. 



C IZE of a Common Pigeon; length ten inches. Bill yellowifh, 

 with a black tip : back part of the head crefted, as in the 

 laft-defcribed : the forehead white, paffing backward on each fide 

 beneath the creft : eyelids red : round the eye not well clothed 

 with feathers, of a reddifh. colour,, which pafies backwards in a 

 point : the head and neck dark reddifh brown : breaft, belly, and 

 v.ent, violet black : wings fine reddifh brown : back, rump, and 

 tail, dull brownifh green : tail coverts long, falling over the tail : 

 legs reddifh yellow : claws black. 



A fpecimen of the above is in the Leverian Mufeum, which was 

 met with by accident at a fale, without the lead hiftory annexed. 

 It is moft probably only a different fex of the laft. For the pre- 

 fent, we fhall place it as a variety. ., 



10. 

 Var. A. 



Pl. lviii. 



Description. 



Le Pigeon verd a tete grife d'Antigue, Son. Voy. p. 114, t. 66. 



Q I Z E of the Common Pigeon. The bill of a dull red : the 

 irides yellow : upper part of the head dirty white : hind part 

 of the head and fides of the neck reddifh brown, gloffed with 

 copper : the lefTer quills are of a bright green, with a metalline 

 glofs, changeable in different lights : the greater quills and tail 

 black : between the bend of the, wing and the body there is a 

 femicircular fpot, compofed of feathers half green half grey : the 

 reft of the body green : the legs of a dull red. 

 Inhabits the IJle ofPanay. 



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GREY-HEADED 

 P. 



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