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and breaft light, vinaceous grey : the middle wing coverts 

 marked with oval fpots : the two middle tail feathers grey; the 

 others black for two thirds of their length, and from thence to 

 the end white : the belly is white : the legs red. 

 Inhabits the co?Sk.x>i Malabar. 



653 



PiAGE. 



Columba viridis, Lin. Syft. i. p. 283. N° 23. 



La Tourterelle verte d'Amboine, Brif. cm. i. p. 152. N°43. pi. 15. f. 2. 



Le Turvert, Buf. oif. ii. p. 55;. i rc Efpece. 



La Tourterelle a gorge pourprea d'Amboine, PL enl. 143. 



49: 

 GREEN T. 



T ENG.TH feven inches and. three quarters. The bill is Description-, 



red, and eight lines long : the fore part of the head and the 

 throat are aih-coloured : the hind part of the head and neck, the 

 back, rump, upper tail and wing coverts, breaft, belly, fides, and 

 thighs, green gold, glolTed with copper : the. fore part of the neck, 

 a beautifuLviolet purple : the greater wing coverts above have the- 

 outer edges at the tip brimftone ; the under wing coverts afh-colour: 

 the quills are blackifh, with the outer edges and tips of the fame 

 colour as the body : the tail is blue green, glofied with copper j . 

 the two middle feathers are plain, and verge to blackifh on the 

 inner webs ; the others are all° tipped with brimftone ; beneath 

 they all appear blackifh, with the tips of a dirty white; and the 

 under tail coverts are of a greenilh white : the legs are red, and 

 half-covered with feathers : the claws grey brown. 



Inhabits the ifland of Atnloina* Placb^. 



Columbi 



