﻿PIGEON. 



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doubt differed in fex or age only : it is about an inch longer : 

 the forehead, throat, fore part of the neck, and bread, white : 

 hind part of the neck dufky : over the eye a ferruginous ftreak, 

 pafllng a little downwards on each fide of the neck : back duflcy 

 black : belly dufky : fhoulders and wing coverts as in the other : 

 quills and tail blackifh. 



This was met with at Otaheite. 



In the fame collection I alfo find one which came from the 

 ifland of Tanna, and feems between both the above ; for it has 

 the white ftreak over the eye of the firft, and the fore part to the 

 breaft white as the laft : the forehead, fides of the head, and 

 fore part of the neck, are alfo white : legs deep dull crimfon : 

 belly and back reddilh black : tail rounded. 



Place. 



Columba indica, Lin. Syji. i. p. 284. N° 29. 

 Le Pigeon ramier d'Amboine, Brif. urn. i. p. 

 Green-winged Dove, Edtv. pi. 14. 



Lev. Muf. 



150. N°42. pi. 15. f. 1. 



14. 



GREEN- 

 WINGED P. 



CIZE of a Turtle: length ten inches. Bill fcarlet, and 

 ten lines in length : noftrils blueilh : eye of a dark co- 

 lour : forehead white -, through the eye a ftreak of the fame : top 

 of the head blueifti : the fides of the head, the neck, and breaft, 

 reddifti j the hind part of the neck deepeft : the upper part of 

 the back, and wing coverts, green gold, glofied with copper : 

 ridge of the wing fpotted with white : lower part of the back, 

 rump, and upper tail coverts, afh-colour : belly, fides, thighs, 

 and under tail coverts, reddilh brown : quills brownifh ; the 

 inner webs, for two-thirds of their length from the bafe, rufous : 

 Vol. II. 4 L tail 



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