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substance ; from this, taking in the eye, and occupying the chin and 

 throat, is a fleshy appendage, as in the Turkey, which also is in folds, 

 and changeable in colour; quills and outer edge of the wing mostly 

 black; tail grey at the base, for more or less than half the length, 

 the rest black ; legs red. 



Supposed to inhabit some of the Islands of the Pacific Ocean. 

 M. Temminck mentions a variety wholly white, and no part of the 

 tail black, and others having the plumage spotted with grey and 

 black, probably young birds. 



10— TRIANGULAR SPOTTED PIGEON. 



Columba Guinea, Lid. Orn. ii. 602. Lin. i. 282. Gm. Lin. i. 774. Bris. i. 132. 



Id. 8vo. i. 33. Klein, 120. 25. 

 Le Ramier roussard, Levail. Afr. vi. 70. pi. 265. — Male. 

 Pigeon de Guinee, Buf. ii. 538. 



Tourterelle du Cap. de B. Esperance, Son. Voy. Jnd. ii. 179. 

 Colombe roussard, Temm.Pig.fol. pi. 16. — Male. Id. 8vo. i. p. 214. 

 Triangular spotted Pigeon, Gen. Syn. iv. 639. Edw. pi. 75. 



SIZE of the Wood Pigeon ; length twelve inches and a half. 

 Bill blackish ; eye surrounded by a red skin ; irides bright yellow ; 

 head, neck, and under parts pale ash-colour, with vinaceous margins ; 

 upper parts of the back, purplish brown, glossed with violet; wing 

 coverts, and lesser quills the same, but each feather tipped with a 

 triangular white spot, the point upwards ; the greater quills black, 

 edged with grey; lower part of the back and rump white; tail dull 

 ash-colour, tipped with black; legs pale red, claws brown. In the 

 female the colours are more dull. 



Inhabits Guinea, in the southern parts ; the rocky parts of Africa ; 

 and common about the Cape of Good Hope ; there called Boseh- 

 Duyf and Wilde Duyf, every where common, both at the Cape itself 

 and the interior ; chiefly where wheat or barley grows, which they 

 often attack in large flocks ; roost at night in woods, or among the 



