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PIGEON, 



POMPADOUR P. 



Description. 

 Male. 



Female. 



Place. 



Pompadour Pigeon, Broivn. Illuft. pi. 19. (male f) 

 Yellow-faced Pigeon, ~- pi. 20. (female f) 



ESS than a Turtle. Bill blueifh : cheeks and chin pale 

 yellow : back, breaft, and belly, pale green : wing coverts 

 of a fine pompadour colour: quills black, edged with yellow: 

 tail of a light green, and long : legs red. 



The fecond of the above is the female. The colours are paler ; 

 and the wing coverts of the fame colour as the body. 



Thefe inhabit Ceylon; and are always feen on trees, never on 

 the ground ; for the moil part on thofe known by the name of 

 Waringin Grothebria, on the berries of which it delights to feed, 

 Thefe prove good food, and are fhot by the Europeans for that 

 purpofe. The natives catch them with birdlime. 



GARNET- 

 WINGED P. 



Description. 



Place. 



Varuties. 



Lev. Muf. 



E N G T H nine inches and a half. Bill three quarters of an 

 inch, and of a dufky yellow ; in fome fpecimens black : the 

 forehead white ; from thence paries a ftreak of the fame over each 

 eye, almoft to the hind head, which, as well, as the nape, is black : 

 the lower part of the neck behind, the moulders, and wing co- 

 verts, are of a beautiful deep garnet-colour : the back between 

 the wings, the quills, tail, lower part of the breaft, belly, and 

 vent, are all black : the tail is two inches and a half long, and 

 even at the end ; the bafe half of a greyifh afh-colour, the end 

 half black ; the under part plain dufky : the legs brown. 

 Inhabits the ifland of Eimeo. 



"With the above, at Sir Jofeph Banks's, is another, which no 



5 doubt 



