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ORD. IV. GEN. I. PIGEON. 



S P E. II. RING PIGEON. 



PI. 130. 



Columba Palumbus. Lin. Syft. I. p. 282. 

 Le Pigeon ramier. Brif. Orn. I. p. 89. 



This fpecies is much larger than the former, being near eighteen inches in 

 length, thirty in breadth, and weighing about twenty ounces. The bill is yel- 

 lowifh : eyes pale yellow : head, back, and wing coverts bluifh afh colour j 

 the back verging to brown : fore part of the neck paler afh colour ; the hind 

 part and fides of the neck a golden green gloried with blue and copper, chang- 

 ing its hues as it is varioufly objected to the light, and on each fide of the neck 

 is a crefcent of white : the lower part of the neck and breaft are of a purplifh 

 red dafhed with afh colour : the belly inclining to white : the tail afh colour, 

 changing to blackifh at the end : the greater quill feathers are blackifh, fome 

 of the outer ones having their exteriour edges white, and the reft being afh co- 

 loured : from the baftard wing is a white ftroke tending downwards. 



This bird is known in fome countries by the names of queeft and cufhat. 

 It breeds in the woods, on the tops of pollard decayed trees, or in the hollows of 

 them, making a loofe flat neft with dry flicks. It has two broods in a year* 

 laying two eggs at a time, for which fee PI. XXIX. Fig. 3. 





