•^90 COLUMBID^. 



Inhabits the interior of New Holland. Length 

 twelve inches : all the head, the fore part of the 

 neck, the breast, and the belly are ashy-grey : on 

 the occiput is a singular elongated crest, somewhat 

 resembling that of the Lapwing ; this is of a dusky- 

 ash : the nape is of a vinaceous-ash : the feathers of 

 the back and of the lesser wing-coverts are ashy- 

 brown ; with a transverse black bar near their tip, 

 and the tip itself reddish-ash : th6 greater wing- 

 coverts are tipped with a large plate of brilliant me- 

 tallic-green, delicately edged with pure white : the 

 secondary feathers and quills are deep ashy-grey, 

 with a large spot of brilliant metallic-purple on the 

 outer webs of the latter, which are also bordered 

 with white : the tail-feathers are deep-black with 

 green and violet reflections, and white tips : the 

 beak is small and black : the legs are red. 



Sp, 28. Columba phasianella. Linn. Trans. {Temm.) v. xiii. 

 p. 129. — Temm. PI. Col. 100. — Columba Amboinensis. Lath. 

 Ind. Orn. v. u. p. 74; young. 



Co. rufo-fusca,later\hus colli purpureo viridiqiie nitentibus,iiuchd 

 Jasciisrtifis etfuscis transversitri ornnta; giild rufa; corpore infra 

 purpureo-Jusco, lineis nigris Iransversis; caiidd longissimd; 

 rectrice exteriore rufo, medio Jascia nigra. 



Red Pigeon, with the sides of the neck glossed with purple and 

 green, nape transversely adorned M'ith red and brown bands j 

 the throat rufous; the body beneath purple-brown, with trans- 

 verse black lines; tail very long; the outer feathers red, with a 

 black bar in the middle. 



Inhabits New Holland. Length fourteen inches 

 and a half: the upper parts of the plumage are dull 

 reddish-brown, being of a marron hue on the top 

 of the head, and tinged with green and purple re- 



