20 PIGEON. 



7.— BAY PIGEON. 



Columba badia, Lin. Trans, xiii. 317. 



LENGTH sixteen inches. Bill and legs red, the latter feathered 

 nearly to the toes; irides white; circle of the eyelids bright red, but 

 no naked space round the eye ; back and wing coverts chestnut red ; 

 under parts bluish, with a vinous tint, extending round the neck, 

 and becoming bluish grey on the head and cheeks ; wings deep 

 brown, approaching to black ; tail long, nearly equal, almost black, 

 with a cinereous tinge at the tip. 



Inhabits Sumatra, there called Lampattu, or Pergambu Kalabu : 

 It has a considerable affinity to the preceding. 



8 — WHITE NUTMEG PIGEON. 



Columba alba, Ind. Orn. ii. 602. Gm. Lin. i. 780. 



— — littoralis, Colombe marine, Temm. Pig.fol. pi. 7. Id. 8vo. i. p. 99. 



Pigeon blanc, Mangeur de Muscade, Son. Voy. 169. pi. 103. 

 White Nutmeg Pigeon, Gen. Syn. iv. 638. 



THIS is of the middle size ; length thirteen inches. Bill light 

 grey ; irides yellowish ; plumage wholly white, except the quills, 

 and one-third of the tail next the end, which are black ; the legs 

 are light grey. 



Inhabits New Guinea, also Java, and as well as the last, said 

 to feed on nutmegs, and serves to propagate this useful spice in the 

 same manner. It is most likely that the outer skin alone, or rather 

 the mace, serves them for nourishment; as to the nut itself, it is 

 voided whole, and so little altered, that after having passed the organs 



