40 PIGEON. 



44 —EGYPTIAN PIGEON. 



Columba iEgyptiaca, Ind. Orn. ii. 607. Faun. arab. p. 5. 15. 

 Colombe Egyptienne, Temm. Pig fol. p. 119. Id. 8vo. i. p. 370. 

 Egyptian Turtle, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 267. 



BILL black ; legs flesh-colour, with a tinge of violet ; orbits 

 naked, and bluish ; feathers of the throat cuneiform, divided at the 

 ends into two slender lobes, which diverge, have their ends 

 truncated, and are rusty flesh-colour ; back cinereous ; breast violet 

 flesh-colour; belly and thighs whitish; wings chiefly brown ; the 

 two outmost tail feathers are a trifle shorter than the others, and 

 cinereous at the base, black in the middle, the very tips whitish ; the 

 fifth on each side brown, in the middle dusky, and the two middle 

 ones wholly brown ; legs flesh-colour. 



Inhabits Egypt, mostly seen about houses, but whether the most 

 common is not said.* The Arabian name is Jemam. 



45— MALABAR PIGEON. 



Columba Malabarica, Ind. Orn. ii. 609. Gm. Lin. i. 779. 

 Tourterelle de la Cote de Malabar, Sonn. Voy. Ind. ii. 180. 

 Colombe Brame, Temm. Pig. fol. seconde suite, Id. 8vo. i. p. 376. 

 Malabar Turtle, Gen. Syn. Sup. iv. 652. 



SIZE of the Collared Species. Bill and irides red ; head, back, 

 and wings, pale cinereous grey ; neck and breast light vinaceous 

 grey ; the middle wing coverts marked with oval spots ; the two 

 middle tail feathers grey, the others black for two-thirds, the rest 

 of the length white ; belly white ; legs red. 



Inhabits the Coast of Malabar. 



* Savary says, that in Egypt Pigeons are more numerous than in any other country, 

 being in such vast nights as to darken the air ; which appears credible, as every hamlet and 

 every town, as we are told, forms one vast Pigeon-house.— Letters on Egypt, No, 31. 



