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37- 

 SPOTTED- 

 GREEN P. 



Description. 



P I G E O N. 



or Wild Indian Cock : round the eye is a naked deep red fkin % 

 the back, wings, and belly, are of a deep blue : rump and tail 

 of a deep q-imfon : legs black. 



Found in the IJle of France, where tradition informs us that 

 the fle'fh is poifonous. 



E N G T H twelve inches. Bill black, tipped with pale 

 yellow: general colour of the plumage dark green, and 

 gloffy : the head and neck are darker than the reft, and of one 

 plain colour: the feathers of the neck long and narrow, like the 

 hackles of a Cock j every feather of the wings and fcapulars 

 tipped with a fpot of very pale cinereous white, with a point 

 running upwards, fomewhat triangular: quills and tail black ; 

 the feathers of the fir ft tipped with cinereous white, thofe of 

 the laft with ferruginous white, and even at the end : belly, 

 thighs, and vent, dufky black : the legs are brown, and the 

 fhins covered half way with downy feathers : claws black. 



In the collection of Major Davies. I likewife met with a fpe- 

 cimen in that of Sir Jojepb Banks. Native place uncertain. 



NrrnRAR P Colamba Nicobarica, Lin, Syfi. i. p. 283. N° 27. 



Le Pigeon de Nincobar, Brif. orn. i. p. 153. N° 44. — Buf. oif. ii. p. 541.— 



Pi. oil. 491. 

 Pigeon from the Nincobar, Alhin. iii. pi. 47, 48. (male and female.) — Edna, 

 Glean, pi. 33,9. 



Leo. Muf. 



BiscRiBTiOflf. Q IZE of the common Pigeon. The bill is dufky: irides 

 hazel : the head, neck^ breaftj belly, thighs., and under tail 



coverts. 



