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equal lengths ; the two middle are blackifh ; the others are afh- 

 colour, with white tips * ; between which two colours is a band 

 of black : the legs are red -.the claws black. 



This fpecies inhabits America. That from which Edwards Place,. 



took his defcription came from the Weft Indies. 



Columba Amboinenfis, Lin. Syji. i. p. 286. N° 38. 64.; 



La Tourterelle d'Amboine, Brif. orn. i. p. 127. N° 26. pi. 9. f. 3.— AMBOINA-T. 

 Buf.oif. ii. p. 557. 



"TPH IS equals the Common 'Turtle in fize : the length fourteen Descriptions 



inches, of which the tail alone is eight inches. The bill is 

 ten lines long, and red r the head, neck, bread, belly, fides, 

 thighs, and under tail coverts, rufous : the feathers on the top of 

 the head, the neck, and breaft, have each of them a blackifh 

 tranfverfe band near the tip : the upper part of the back, and 

 ■wing coverts, are deep brown, tipped with rufous : the lower 

 part of the back, the rump, and upper tail coverts, rufous : _ 

 quills deep brown : the tail very unequal^ the outer feathers 

 being very Ihort, and wholly of a rufous brown colour: legs red: 

 claws brown. 



The female is much of the fame colour, but not fo bright as- Female.. 

 the male. 

 .This fpecies inhabits the ifiand' of Am&oina; Place. 



* Linnaus* 



Voi. H, 4 Ct Columba 



