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Columba Guinea, Lin. Syfi. u p. 282. N° 16. 



Le Pigeon de Guinee, Brif. orn. i. p. 132. N° 30. — Buf. oif. ii. p. 538, 

 La Tourterelle du Cap de Bonne Efperance, Son. Voy. Ind. ii. p. 179. 

 Triangular-fpotted Pigeon, Ediu. ii. pi. 75. 



Br. Muf. Lev. Muf. 



32- 

 TRIANGULAR- 

 SPOTTED P. 



npHIS equals the Wood Pigeon in fi-ze. The bill is black Hh : Description. 



the eyes furrounded by a red fkin ; the irides bright yellow : 

 the head, neck, and under parts of the body, pale afh-colour : 

 belly and vent white : the feathers on the neck are pointed '■, of an 

 afh-colour, with vinaceous margins : the upper part of the back 

 purplifh brown, glofled with violet : wing coverts, and leffer 

 quills, the fame, but each feather tipped with a triangular white 

 fpot, the point upwards i the greater quills black, with grey 

 edges : lower part of the back and rump white : the tail dull afh- 

 colour, tipped with black : legs pale red : claws brown. 



Inhabits Guinea, in the fouthern parts; the rocky parts of Place. 



Africa i common about the Cape of Good Hope. 



Le Pigeon a. queue annelee de la Jamaique, Brif. orn. i. p. 138. N° 34. — 



Buf. oif. ii. p. 539. 

 Columba cauda. fafcia notata, Raii Syn. p. 63. N° 17. — p. 183. N° 22. 

 Ring-tailed Pigeon, Sloan. Jam, p. 302. — Brown. Jam. p. 468. 



C I Z E of the Ring Pigeon : length fifteen inches.. The mem- 

 brane which covers the noftrils gibbous : irides crimfon : 

 the head, fore part of the neck, and breaft, purplifh : the hind 

 part of the neck greenifh purple, with a filky glofs : back, 

 rump, and upper tail coverts, pale blue : the wings are brownifh : 



the 



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RING-TAILED 



P. 



Description* 



