﻿PIGEON, 



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La petite Tourterelle de Queda, Son. Fay. Ind. vol.ii. p. 177. 



HIS is a little bigger than the Houfe Sparrow, and longer. 

 The bill is black, tinged with yellow at the tip and bafe : 

 irides yellow : the forehead and throat are light cinereous grey : 

 the hind part of the head the fame, crofTed with black lines : the 

 back, rump, and leffer wing coverts, are pale cinereous grey, tipped 

 with a black band : fides of the neck white, crofTed with nume- 

 rous lines of black : bread and belly pale vinous grey ; fides of 

 the laft undulated with black lines : quills brown : the middle tail 

 feathers the fame ; the others are brown for two thirds of their 

 length, and from thence to the end white : thighs and under tail 

 coverts are alfo. white : legs the colour of yellow orpiment. 



This inhabits Malacca ; and is a beautiful fpecies, and the fleflx 

 faid to be extremely delicate. It has been tranfported into the 

 IJle of France, where it has multiplied exceedingly. 



60. 

 MALACCA T, 



Description, 



PlacZo 



61. 



• PASSENGER 

 P. 



** With LONG TAILS. 



Celumba migratoria, Lin. SyJ}. i. p. 285. N° 36. — Frifch. t. 142. 

 Le Pigeon fauvage d'Amerique, Brif. orn. i. p. 1 00. N° 12. 

 Pigeon dePaflage, Buf. oif. ii. p. 527. 

 Pigeon of Paffage, Catejh. Car. i. pi. 23. 

 Migratory or Paffenger Pigeon, Phil. Tranf. vol. IxiL p. 398. 

 American Migratory Pigeon, Kalm. Tra-v, vol. ii. p. 82. plate oppofite. — • 

 ArB. Zool. 



Br. M11/. Lev. Muf. 



np H I S is about the fize of the Common Pigeon: weight nine Describtion,. 



ounces : length fourteen inches. Bill eleven lines long, 

 and bkck : round the eyes crimfon ;. irides orange : the head, 



throaty 



