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46.— GREEN PIGEON. 



Columba viriilis, Ind. Orn. ii. 653. Lin. i. 283. Gm. Lin. i. 780. 

 Turtur viridis Amboinensis, Bris. i. 152. t. 15. 2. Id. 8vo. i. 39. 

 Turvert, Biif. ii. 555. (first species) Id. Sonnin. vii. 289. 

 Tourterelle a Gorge pourpree d'Amboine, PL enl. 142. 

 Colombe a Gorge pourpree, Temm. Pig. suite. Id. 8vo. i. p. 374. 

 Green Turtle, Gen. Syn. iv. 653. 



LENGTH seven inches and three quarters. Bill eight lines long, 

 red ; fore part of the head and throat ash-coloured ; hind part and 

 neck, back, rump, wings, and tail coverts, and beneath from the 

 breast green gold, glossed with copper ; fore part of the neck most 

 beautiful violet-purple; greater wing coverts edged, and tipped with 

 brimstone ; under wing coverts ash-colour ; quills blackish, with the 

 edges and ends of the same colour as the body; tail blue green, 

 glossed with copper ; the two middle feathers plain, and blackish on 

 the inner webs ; the others tipped with brimstone, but beneath all 

 appear blackish, and the tips dirty white; legs red, half covered 

 with feathers, claws red brown. 



Inhabits the Island of Amboina. 



47 —BLACK-CAPPED PIGEON. 



Columba melanocephala, 7nd.Orw.ii. 610. Gm. Lin. i. 781. Zool. Indie. 16. t. 7. 



Sonn. Biif. vii. 290. Nat. Misc. pi. 777. 

 Turvert, Buf. ii. 555. — Second Species. 

 Tourterelle de Batavia, PL enl. 214. 



Colombe Turgris, Temm. Pig.fol. pi. 30. Id. 8vo. i. p. 263. 

 Black-capped Pigeon, Gen. Syn. iv. 654. Ind. Zool. 41. pi. S. 



LENGTH nine inches and a half. Bill black, tip yellow ; irides 

 reddish brown ; head bluish ash-colour, the back part of it black ; 

 round the eye slightly bare ; chin and throat fine deep yellow ; neck 

 and body deep green ; vent orange yellow ; some of the outside 



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