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black ; back and wings glossy black ; belly and thighs fine yellow ; 

 under tail coverts grey, with yellowish margins; rump greenish ; tail 

 of fourteen feathers, greenish black above, with the end greenish 

 grey; beneath cinereous, with the end white ; shins feathered to the 

 toes, which are yellow. 



Inhabits the south parts of Asia, but uncertain where ; the one 

 from which the figure was copied, said to have been sent from 

 Batavia. 



34— ROUSSET PIGEON. 



Columba ruffina, Colombe Rousette, Temm.Pig.fol. p. 24. Id. 8vo. i. p. '245. 

 Pigeon ramier de Cayenne, Bonn. Tab. Encycl. Orn. p. 234. sp. 8. 



LENGTH nearly twelve inches. Bill dusky; the lower part of 

 the neck, back, and lesser wing coverts, deep rufous, tinged with 

 violet; head much the same, with a greenish tinge on the hindhead; 

 back, rump, and under wing coverts, bluish grey; throat white; 

 belly and under tail coverts grey ; quills and tail cinereous grey ; 

 legs red, claws brown. 



The females are without the glossy green on the hindhead ; the 

 tail short in both, rounded, and the wings reach to half the length 

 of it. 



Inhabits Guiana ; also found in Cuba, St. Domingo, and Jamaica. 



35.-GEOFFROYS PIGEON. 



Columba Geoffroyi, Colombe Geoffroy, Temm. Pig.fol. pi. 57. Id. Svo. i. p. 297. 



THIS elegant Pigeon is eight inches long. Bill dusky ; general 

 colour of the plumage pearly grey, inclining to brown on the back ; 

 tail very pale ; belly and vent white ; on the shoulders five or six 

 spots of violet black, changing in different lights to blue and green ; 



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