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of the head and hind head incline to rufous '. the upper part of 

 the neck, the back, and wing coverts, are brownilh afh-colour, 

 marked with tranfverfe arcuated black bands : the rump the 

 fame, but not banded : the fides of the neck and the body verge 

 to blue, crofTed with blue black tranfverfe flender lines : fore part 

 of the neck, breaft, belly, and thighs, tinged with rofe-colour : 

 •the under tail coverts white : legs pale red : claws brown. 



Inhabits the Eafi Indies and China. Called by the Obinefe-, Plac*. 



-Fowat. 



Columba cyanocephala, Lin. Syjl. i. p. 282. N° 20. at. 



La Tourterelle de la Jamaique, Brif. orn. i. p. 135. N° 3^. pi. 13. f. I. — BLUE-HEADED 



Bttf. oif. ii. p. 558. — PL enl. 174. 

 Turtle Dove from Jamaica, Albin, ii. pi. 49. 



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C I Z E of the Common Pigeon: length eleven inches. The bill Description. 



is near an inch in length, red at the bafe, and afh- coloured at 

 the point: the crown of the head and the throat are blue; this 

 colour defcends a little way down the middle of the fore part of 

 the neck; beneath which the feathers are black, and on fome of 

 them is a tranfverfe ftripe of white : from the lower jaw to the 

 hind part of the head is a ftripe of white, paffing under the eye : • 

 the hind part of the neck, back, rump, wing and tail covertSj 

 vinaceous brown : the fore part of the neck (except juft down the 

 middle, as above-mentioned) and the breaft, are of a fine vina- 

 ceous colour : the belly, fides, thighs, and under tail coverts, 

 the fame, but inclining to rufous : the quills are brown, with the 

 outer edges rufous : the tail dufky afh-colour above, and blackifh 

 beneath : the legs and claws are red. 



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