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B.— This appears a small Variety, and only thirteen inches long. 

 Bill one inch, the nostrils rising into a knob ; head and neck ash- 

 colour; irides orange; round the bill and chin grey ; upper parts of 

 the body green, inclining to red on the rump; beneath reddish brown ; 

 wings blue; quills edged with deep blue; tail dusky; legs red. 



Met with at Amsterdam Isle, or Tongo taboo, and called 

 Orooba Ya. 



6— NUTMEG PIGEON. 



-Columba senea, Ind. Orn. ii. 602. Lin. i. 283. Gm. Lin. i. 780. Lin. Trans, xiii. 



184. 316. 

 Palumbus Moluccensis, Bris. i. 148. t. 13. f. 2. Id. 8vo. i. 38. 

 Pigeon Ramier des Moluques, Buf. ii. 538. PI. enl. 164. 

 Colombe rnuseadivore, Temm. Pig.fol. pi. 3 & 4. Id. 8vo. i. 86. 

 Nutmeg Pigeon, Gen. Syn. iv. 636. 



SIZE of the last; length seventeen inches. Bill hooked, and 

 gibbous, dusky, inclining to green ; irides blue ; head, neck, and 

 under parts, dirty white, tinged with vinaceous ; back, rump, tail, 

 and its coverts green, glossed with gold and copper; under tail 

 coverts purplish chestnut ; quills ash-colour, the tips of the prime, 

 and outer edges, and tips of the secondaries, like the back ; tail even 

 at the end ; legs red, covered halfway with feathers. 



Inhabits the Molucca Islands, and feeds on nutmegs.* The 

 female is smaller, the plumage more dull in colour, and the head, 

 neck, and beneath, have a vinaceous tinge. 



* In Java, where it is also found, it feeds on the fruit of the Banian Tree, Fieus reli- 

 giosa. — Lin. Called there Pohor Vrique. In Sumatra it is called Pergam. A Variety in 

 Java named Geduwo. 



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