46 PIGEON. 



57— YELLOW-WINGED PIGEON. 



LENGTH fifteen inches. Bill small, pale; head and neck 

 cinereous, inclined to green near the breast, and on the belly to 

 blue; back and wings olive-green ; across the coverts an oblique 

 yellow bar, formed by a series of yellow spots ; below this green; 

 quills glossy deep green, nearly black, margined with green ; under 

 wing coverts, vent, and under tail coverts yellow; tail green, even 

 at the end; the wings reach to about the middle of it; legs scaly, 

 dusky, claws hooked. 



Inhabits New-Holland. — In the collection of Mr. Harrison ; 

 another, at General Davies's, had the breast and middle of the belly 

 purple. 



58— WHITE-FACED PIGEON. 



Columba melanoleuca, Ind. Orn. Sup. p. lix. 



Colombe Goadgang, Temm. Pig.fol. p. 118. Id. Svo. i. p. 369. 



White-faced Pigeon, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 268. 4. 



THIS is above sixteen inches long. Bill and legs reddish ; face 

 and sides of the head, as far as the eyes, white ; before the eye a 

 triangle of black, and behind a crimson spot ; crown and hind part 

 of the head pale ash ; the rest of the neck dusky ; body above, and 

 wings dull green, some of the inner quills ferruginous; beneath, from 

 the breast, white ; sides of the breast, next the wings, black ; sides 

 of the body marked with a double series of white spots ; the wings 

 reach one-third on the tail, which is even, dusky above, and pale 

 ash beneath, the ends approaching to white. 



Inhabits New-Holland, called there Goadgang. Met with in 

 December. 



