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COLUMBA (ENAS. 



(STOCK-DOVE.) 



Columba cenas sive vinago, Briss. Orn. i. p. 86 (1760). 



1 Columba saxatilis, Briss. torn. cit. p. 84 (1760). 



Columba osnas, Linn. Fauna Suec. p. 75 (1761). 



Columba anas, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 279 (partim, cum livia confusa; 1766). 



"i Columba saxatilis, Gmel. Syst. Nat. i. p. 769 (1788, ex Briss.). 



Columba cavorum, C. L. Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. p. 492 (1831). 



Columba arborea, C. L. Brehm, Vogelfang, p. 257 (1855). 



Palumbcena columbella, Bp. Cat. Parzud. p. 9 (1856). 



Palumbcena cenas (L.), Gray, Hand-list, ii. p. 233. no. 9241 (1870). 



Colombe, colombin, French ; Pombo trocaz, Portuguese; Hamam el Berri, Moorish ; Hohl- 

 taube, Holztaube, German ; de kleine Boschduif, Dutch ; Lille Skovdue, Huldue, Danish ; 

 Skovdue, Norwegian ; Skogsdufva, Swedish ; Sinikyyhka, Finnish ; Dikey-Golub, Russian. 



Figurce notabiles. 



Werner, Atlas, Pigeons, pi. 3 ; Kjserb. Orn. Dan. taf. 28 ; Fritsch, Vog. Eur. taf. 29. fig. 4 ; 

 Naumann, Vog. Deutschl. taf. 151 ; Sundevall, Svensk. Fogl. pi. 31. fig. 3 ; Gould, B. of 

 Eur. pi. 244; id. B. of G. Brit. iv. pi. 2; Schlegel, Vog. Nederl. pi. 184; Roux, Orn. 

 Prov. pi. 244. 



c? ad, capite, collo, dorso, scapularibus et tectricibus alarum superioribus cinereo-cseruleis vix schistaceo tinctis : 

 plumis in colli lateribus et collo postico viridi metallico nitentibus : uropygio et supracaudalibus 

 pallide caeruleis : remigibus cinereo-nigrieantibus, extus cinereo niarginatis, secundariis ad basin 

 pallide cinereo-cseruleis, secundariis intimis nonnullis et tectricibus majoribus cinereo-nigro notatis : 

 cauda, ad basin caeruleo-cinereEi, versus apicem pallide cinerea et plumbeo apicata : corpore subtus 

 cinereo-cseruleo, pectore superiore rufescenti-vinaceo : rostro ad basin rubro, et versus apicem flavido ; 

 iride rufa : pedibus rubris. 



5 mari similis, sed sordidior et vix minor. 



Juv. sordidior nee collo viridi metallico notato, et secundariis intimis cum tectricibus alarum vix nigro-cinereo 

 notatis. 



Adult Male (Sheringham, Norfolk, 11th April). Head, neck, back, scapulars, and wing-coverts bluish grey 

 with a dull slaty tinge j feathers on the sides of the neck and hind neck richly glossed with lustrous 

 metallic green; rump and upper tail-coverts light bluish grey; quills blackish grey, externally margined 

 with lighter grey, the secondaries light bluish grey at the base; several of the innermost secondaries 

 and of the wing-coverts above marked with a patch of blackish grey; wing-coverts more blue and 

 lighter than the back ; tail at the base bluish grey, then light grey, the terminal portion being dark 



