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Place* 



34- „. 

 NEW-ZEA- 

 LAND P. 



Description. 



Place. 



PIGEON. 



the belly whitifh : the tail, like the back, crofTed with a band of 

 black. 



Inhabits Jamaica, where it is frequently called Mountain Pi- 

 geon. Sometimes found in the favanna woods in January. 



T ENGTH eighteen inches. Bill an inch long, and red: 

 irides, and round the eyes, red : the upper parts of the body 

 are of a ruby red, gloried with green on the fore part of the 

 neck : quills dufky : rump blue : tail black : under parts from 

 the breaft white, inclining to blue towards the vent : legs red. 

 Inhabits Bujky Bay, New Zealand -, called Hagarreroo. 



MADAGASCAR 



Columba Madagafcarienfis, Lin. Syfi. i. p. 283. N° 21. 



Le Pigeon ramier bleu de Madagascar, Brif. orn. i. p. 140. N° 36. pi. 14. 



f. 1 PI. en/. 11. 



Le Founingo, Buf. oif. ii. p. 539. 



Description- *"p HIS is about the fize of the common Pigeon, and is ten 

 inches and a half in length. The bill red: the eyes 

 placed in a bare redfkin : the plumage is wholly of a blue black, 

 and very gloffy ; the feathers on the neck narrower than the 

 others, and have a mixture of afh-colour : the tail violet purple : 

 legs red : claws black. 

 P&Ac-E. This fpecies inhabits Madagajcar, where it is called Founingo- 



mena-rabou. 



Celumba 



