PIGEON. 31 



27 —CHESTNUT-SHOULDERED PIGEON. 



Columba spadicea, Ind. Orn. Sup. pi. Ix. 



Colombe Geant, Tern. Pig.fol. pi. 1. Id. 8vo. i. p. 74. 



Chestnut-shouldered Pigeon, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. Add. p. 375. 



LENGTH twenty inches. Bill red, with a yellow tip ; irides 

 crimson ; head and neck before, to the breast, glossy deep green ; 

 towards the breast paler; belly white; shoulders deep chocolate 

 red, or chestnut; part of the neck glossed with copper; quills edged 

 with glossy light grey ; tail a trifle hollowed at the end, more than 

 seven inches long, brown, glossed with bluish purple, the end oker 

 yellow ; beneath pale grey; towards the end a broad bar of brown ; 

 the quills reach to about the middle ; legs red. 



Inhabits Norfolk Island, one of the Friendly Group, but seems to 

 be a scarce species. 



28 —BRONZE-WINGED PIGEON. 



Columba chalcoptera, Ind. Orn. ii. 604. 



Colombe lumachelle, Temm. Pig.fol. pi. 8. — Male. Id. 8vo. i. p. 103. 

 Bronze-winged Pigeon, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 26G. Phil. Bot. Bay, pi. p. 162. White's 

 Journ. pi. p. 146. Lev. Mus. 227. pi. 55. 



LENGTH fifteen inches and a half. Bill red ; plumage above 

 cinereous brown ; beneath cinereous, tinged with red on the breast ; 

 on the middle of the wing, a double broad bar of beautiful, and 

 splendid, copper bronze, varying to red and green, from the outer 

 coverts having a large oval bronze spot on the outer webs of each, 

 near the end ; some of the adjoining ones have also similar spots, 

 but in a less degree, and making no part of the large patch ; some 

 of the onter second quills are also marked in a similar manner; the 

 tail has eighteen feathers, much rounded, the two middle feathers 

 brown, the others dove-colour, crossed with a bar of black near the 

 end ; legs red. 



