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PIGEON. 



40. 



Var. B. 

 PORTUGAL T. 



it is poffible that this may have been brought from that place *j 

 however this may be, it ferves to fhew that neither this nor the 

 former are confined to the European regions. 



La Tourterelle de Portugal, Brif. orn. i. p. 98. N° 9. — Buf. oif. ii, p. jjo. 

 Portugal Dove, Albin. ii. pi. 48. 



Description. npHIS is bigger than our Turtle. The bill is black : irides 

 faffron-colour : the whole of the bird is of a deep brown : 

 on each fide the neck, about the middle, are two or three 

 fhining black feathers tipped with white : the lefter wing coverts 

 are black, edged with white; the others brown, edged with yel- 

 low ;" the quills blackifli, with yellow edges : the two middle tail 

 feathers are deep alb, tipped with white ; the others white on the 

 outer edges and tips, and afh-coloured within : the legs are red : 

 the claws black. 

 Place ° Inhabits Portugal. 



40. 



Var. C. 



LUZONIAN T. 



Description. 



Place. 



La Tourterelle grife de l'Ifle de Lucon, Son. Foy. p. 52. t. 22. 



I Z E of a Turtle. Bill and irides the colour of carmine : 

 head and neck light grey a(h-colour : on each fide of the neck 

 fix or feven of the feathers are tipped with black : the breaft 

 and belly vinaceous grey : quills black ; the fecondaries are the 

 fame, but the ends have a brownifh yellow tinge : the two middle 

 feathers of the tail black j the others white: the legs reddifh. 



Inhabits Manilla. 



* And this I am the rather confirmed in, from obferving it in two feparate 



collections of Chine/e drawings, in which it was well exprefl'ed. The name given 



to it in China is Pattcou. 



La 



