28 PIGEON. 



20— WHITE-MASKED PIGEON. 



Columba larvata, Colombe k Masque blanc, Temm. Pig. fol. pi. 31. Id. 8vo. i. p. 26G. 

 Tourterelle a Masque blanc, Levail. Afr. vi. p. 80. pi. 269. 



LENGTH about eight inches. Bill bluish ; irides orange ; the 

 whole front, to beyond the eyes, white ; the rest of the plumage in 

 general rufous brown, with a purple gloss ; wings and tail dusky, 

 edged with bluish grey ; legs vinaceous. In the female the colours 

 are less vivid. 



Inhabits Africa ; found in the inward parts of the Cape of Good 

 Hope, only in the country of the Hottniquas, and in the great woods 

 there : is difficult to shoot, being always on the ground among the 

 grass, and the thickets ; when disturbed, flies among the thickest 

 of the low branches of trees and shrubs, in the bifurcations of which 

 it makes the nest, and lays two fulvous white eggs. 



21— JENISEE PIGEON. 



SMALLER than the Common Turtle. Plumage in general 

 cinereous brown; rump white; tail crossed with a band of black. 



This is said, by Dr. Pallas, in some M. S. descriptions, to be a 

 very scarce species ; found only in the southern latitudes, about the 

 River Jenisee, in Siberia ; but in no other part, of it, except, 

 probably, the Great Chain towards the south. 



22.— SOUTHERN PIGEON. 



Columba meridionalis, Ind. Orn: Sup. p. lx. 

 Southern Pigeon, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii: 270. 



LENGTH ten inches. Bill black, a trifle bent at the end ; the 

 nostrils apparent, but not swelling ; corners of the mouth dark red ; 



