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COLUMBA GELASTIS. 
black spot witli four white transverse streaks. Wings 
above blackish, with broad rusty red edges to the 
feathers, which give these parts a scaly appearance. 
Tail rounded, black, with a broad whitish grey tip, 
the web of the outer feathers grey; the middle nearly 
free from the light tips. Back and upper parts blue; 
head and breast Avhitish grey, with a rusty tinge, 
especially in the breast; under tail coverts bluish 
white. — Stockholm Museum. 
Young. Tail black, with a broad white tip, which 
is absent on the middle feathers; wings, etc., dark 
brown, with rusty yellow tips. Black spots on the sides 
of the neck scarcely visible. — Stockholm Musemn. 
This Dove, which was formerly only known in Japan, 
has of late years been met with in S^veden. In 
December, 1842, a young example was purchased in 
Stockholm in a load of other birds from Herjeadalei, 
where it was caught in the autumn. An older specimen 
was sent down alive by a ship-builder, named J. 
Peterson, of Piteo, to the Stockholm Museum. It 
was caught in a forest tract a mile and a half Swedish 
from the town. It was kept alive in Stockholm 
some time, but died December 20th., 1853, and is 
now preserved in the Museum as one of the rarest 
and most handsome of Swedish birds. According to 
Professor Sundevall, the note exactly resembles that of 
the Turtle Dove, (consequently not laughing, as the 
name would imply,) and the general appearance of the 
two birds is so similar, that were it not for the size 
it might easily be taken for a large variety of O. 
Turtur. Professor Sundevall imagines that besides 
Japan it inhabits North-Eastern Asia, and that the 
yearling bird, which was caught in Herjeadalei, was 
hatched in the above-named province or in Lapland. 
