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PIGEON. 



Piacec Inhabits the ifland of Java : feeds, when at large, on the ber- 



ries of the Rum-fooni ; but will alfo live on boiled Rice and 

 Padda. 



»7- 

 RED- 

 CROWNED P. 



Description. 



Placs. 



18. 

 PURPLE P. 



Description. 



Place. 



Le Pigeon violet a tete rouge d'Antigue, Son. Foy, p. 112. t. 67. 



CIZE of the Jacobin Pigeon. The bill is grey; from the 

 bafe of the upper mandible is a flefhy membrane of a bright 

 red colour, which wholly encircles the eyes : the irides have two 

 circles, a large one of red, and a leffer one of grey colour : the 

 top of the head is covered with (lender feathers of a fine red 

 colour, forming a kind of hood :. the neck, upper parts of the 

 back, and breaft, blueifh grey, paleft on the breaft : the reft of 

 the body, and tail, of a velvety black, changing into both violet 

 and blue in different reflections of light : the legs grey. 



This was found at Antigue, in the lile of Panay, by Mr. SjMr 

 nerat. 



Purple Pigeon, Broivn. III. p. 42. pK 18V 



CIZE of the Englijh Wood Pigeon. Front pale green :.; head 

 and neck fine lilght purple : breaft orange : back, fcapulars, 

 and belly, light green : vent fcarlet : quills dufky. 



Inhabits the ifland of Java, where it is called Joaan, from 

 Joo y which fignifies green in. the Javmi and. Malayan lan- 

 guages *. 



* Mr. Loten mentions, that he has known more than eighteen or twenty 

 fpecies of Wood Pigeons on the iflands of Java, Celebes, and Ceylon ; fome as 

 big as a/mall Hen, of a beautiful white, with black wings and tail ; fome blueifli 

 green ; fome entirely of a dark beautiful red, between fcarlet and carmine ;. and 

 fome alfo like our European Turtles* 



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