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54— BLUE-TOPPED PIGEON. 



LENGTH sixteen inches. Bill red ; crown wholly blue ; fore- 

 head and chin buff-colour ; through the eye to the nape cinnamon, 

 as in the other, but none of that colour under the chin ; under parts 

 of the body pale bluish white, with a tinge of blossom-colour on the 

 breast ; on the wings eight spots, or crescents of red, margined with 

 yellow ; the second quills have the ends red, fringed with yellow, 

 but not glossy ; legs red. 



Inhabits New South Wales with the last. — General Davies. 



55.— PACIFIC PIGEON. 



LENGTH eighteen inches. Head, neck, and breast, purple ; 

 nape glossed with green ; chin and throat white ; the rest of the 

 body cinnamon-colour. 



Inhabits Howe's Island. — General Davies. 



56— ANTARCTIC PIGEON. 



Columba Antarctica, Zool. N. Holl. p. 15. t. 5. 



SIZE of a Wood Pigeon ; length eighteen inches. Bill red, 

 narrow, hooked, the under mandible broad, and the upper one shuts 

 into it; nostrils black ; plumage tine dove-colour; top of the head 

 crested, most so at the back part, where it hangs loose, and is ferru- 

 ginous ; beneath this a streak of black ; the neck feathers are narrow, 

 not unlike hackles, and fine grey; quills and tail black, the last even 

 at the end, marked with a bar of white, an inch broad, and a little 

 more than that space from the end ; under part of the body blue 

 grey, near the vent white ; legs red. 



Inhabits New-Holland.— In the collection of Mr. H. Brosdon. 



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