﻿PIGEON. 



T E N G T H fourteen inches. Bill black : fides of the head 

 beneath the eyes dufky : the forehead, throatj and fore 

 part of the neck, of a pale rufous, or rather vinaceous colour : 

 the crown, and hind part of the neck, dufky brown, with a 

 greenifh tinge on the firft : fides of the neck red brown, changing 

 into a glofly purple or lake-colour as it advances downwards, 

 uniting on both fides to form a bar of the fame colour on the 

 bread : the wing coverts are of the fame beautiful purple red as 

 the bar on the breaft : the quills are dufky : above the purple 

 bar on the breaft is a tranfverfe band of white : the belly dufky : 

 the legs are red, an inch and a half in length : claws black. 

 Inhabits the ifland of Eimeo. 



629, 



19. 

 PURPLE- 

 BREASTED P. 



Descriptions 



Ft ace. 



Columba vernans, Lin. Mantiff. 1771. p. £26* 20. 



Le Pigeon verd des Philippines, Brif. orn. i. p. 14*. N>° 18. pi. in. f. 2. — PARROT P. 



% e •/• ■• o D ; ; o The Male. 



Buf. 01J, 11. p. 528. — PL enU 138. 



Parrot Dove, Raii Syn. p. 196. N° 15. pi. 2. N° 15. 



£e Pigeon verd male des Ifles de Lujon & d'Antigue, Son. Fey. p. no; 



t. 64. 



COMEWHAT bigger than the Turtle : length nine inches Description. 



and a half. The bill is three quarters of an inch, and 

 blackifh, with a yellowifh tip : the head and throat are dull olive 

 green : irides compofed of two circles ; the outer red, the inner 

 blue : neck pale chefhut, inclining to vinaceous : back, rump* 

 fides, and upper tail coverts, olive green : wing coverts the 

 fame ; but the greater ones are tipped with brimftone, making a 

 fpot on the wing : the breaft is orange : belly and thighs pale 



olive 



