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olive green, inclining to yellow, growing paler towards the vent, 

 where it is yellow : the under tail coverts are rufous, and as 

 long- as the tail itfelf : the quills are blackifh above, and afh- 

 coloured beneath, edged with brirnftone : the tail feathers are 

 afh-coloured above and blackifh beneath : the legs are red : the 

 claws black. 



This I fhould take to be the bird above referred to in Sonnerat ; 

 but the pale grey afh-colour * on the crown, mentioned by this 

 author, was not in Brijfon's bird. Sonnerat fays the bill of his 

 bird was very fhort, and of a grey colour ; and likens the yellow 

 colour on the breaft to orpiment, which Brijfon calls orange : in 

 other particulars both feem to anfwer. 



20. Le Pigeon verdfemelk de L'Ifle de Lu9on, Sen. Voy. p. m. t. 69. 



Female. 



Description. I ^ t ^' s ^ ie head, neck, and upper parts of the body, are of a 



greyifh green : the breaft and belly yellowifh green : quills 



black, edged with yellow, but the lefler ones have a reddifh 



glofs : the tail black : the bill is longer in this than in the other, 



and is, as well as the legs, afh-coloured : and the irides of a light 



apple green. 



This is the female of the laft. Both of them inhabit the 



iflands of Manilla and Panay. 



* Perhaps Brijfon might mean this very bird, when he fays that he faw one 

 fent from beyond the Ganges, which differed only in having the head of a fine 

 greyifh white.— Orn a vol. i. p. 145. 



Place. 



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