48 PIGEON. 



black ; on the fore part of the eye black ; behind and round it red ; 

 tail a little rounded, black, the three outer feathers tipped with white ; 

 under parts of the body white, but the vent feathers clay-colour, in the 

 middle brown ; under wing coverts brown and white ; legs red. 



Inhabits New-Holland, and there called Goadgang :* in another, 

 at Mr. Lambert's, the length is sixteen inches ; the black on the 

 throat and breast is broken with a mixture of white on the sides of the 

 neck ; and the side feathers all along the wing are black, with white 

 margins; thighs brown; vent feathers clay-colour, black down the 

 shafts, and margined with white ; bill red, tip black; legs red : the 

 four last described seem much allied, if not Varieties of each other. 



61. -STRIATED PIGEON. 



Columba Sinica, Ind. Orn. ii. 608. Lin. i. 284. Gm. Lin. i. 783. Klein, 120. 22. 



Turtur Sinensis striatus, Bris. i. 107. Id. 8vo. i. 26. 



Colombe a ventre rouge, Temm. Pig. suite. Id. 8vo. i. p. 373. 



Tourterelle rayee de la Chine, Buf. ii. p. 556. Id. Sonnin. vii. 292. 



Dove from China, Albin, iii. p. 46. 



Striated Turtle, Gen. Syn. iv. 650. 



SIZE of the Collared Turtle. Bill bluish ash-colour; irides 

 white ; top of the head ash-colour ; cheeks and sides of the neck 

 yellow ; the feathers of the last tipped with red ; which colour is 

 separated from the upper part of the neck by a longitudinal band of 

 blue; hind part of the head, and upper part of the neck, the back, 

 rump, and upper tail coverts, brown, transversely marked with nar- 

 row, black, arcuated bands ; breast, belly, sides, and thighs, rose- 

 colour ; lesser wing coverts pale brown, varied with a black and white 

 mark near the tips ; the other coverts black, tipped with white ; 

 quills black, with white edges ; tail palish brown ; legs red. 

 Inhabits China. 



* Several Pigeons from New-Holland are called by this name ; hence we suspect, that 

 it is one by which the whole tribe is known ; and not any particular species. 



