﻿PIGEON. 



and the outer edges and tips of the fecondaries, of the fame 

 colour with the back : the tail is even at the end : the legs 

 covered half way down with feathers ; the colour of them, and 

 the claws, greenifh. 

 This inhabits the Molucca iflands, where it feeds on Nutmegs. 



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Place* 



Le Pigeon cuivra Mangeur de Mufcade, Son. Foj..p, 168. pi. 102; 



Lev. Muf. 



30. 

 Var. A. 



'"jPH I S feems to be very like the kfl-defcribed, and perhaps is Description 



a flight variety of fex, &c. : it is of the fame fize. The 

 head blue grey : the bill grey : irides and legs pale carmine : 

 upper parts of the body green, gloried with gold and copper i 

 the neck, breaft, and belly, reddifh grey : under tail coverts yel- 

 lowifn white : quills and tail black. 



One fimilar to this is in the collection of Sir Jofepb Banks % 

 which came from New Zealand. 



Among the drawings of the fame gentleman, I obferve one 

 nearly fimilar, but only thirteen inches in length. Bill an inch 

 long ; the noftrils rifing into a knob : head and neck afh-colour : 

 irides orange : round the bill, and chin, grey : the upper parts of 

 the body green, inclining to red on the rump : beneath reddifh 

 brown : wings blue : quills edged with deep blue : tail dufky v 

 legs red. 



This was met with at Amfterdam IJle^ and is there called Placer 



Orooba ya+ 



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