PIGEON. 49 



62 — SATNT DOMINGO PIGEON. 



Columba Dominicensis, Ind. Om. ii. 605. 



Tourterelle de Saint Domingue, PL enl. 4S7. 



Colombe a Moustaches noires, Temm. Pig.fol. pi. 51. Id. 8vo. i. p. 361. 



Saint Domingo Pigeon, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 271. 



LENGTH eleven inches. Bill black ; plumage in general 

 cinereous grey, somewhat undulated on the back ; on the wings a 

 few dusky spots; breast vinaceous ; forehead, throat, and sides of 

 the head, white, passing as a collar under the nape ; on the crown 

 a black spot ; under the eye a band of black, growing broader 

 behind ; on the middle of the neck a black collar ; vent white ; tail 

 grey, the ends of all but the two middle feathers white ; legs red. 



Inhabits the Island of Saint Domingo. The one referred to in 

 the PL enlum. has the whole body, above and below, cinereous grey ; 

 but the vent is white ; the four middle tail feathers grey, the others 

 wholly white, at least so on the outer webs ; the tail appears to be 

 cuneiform. 



63— WHITE-CROWNED PIGEON. 



Columba leucocephala, Ind. Orn. ii. 594. Lin. i. 281. Gm. Lin. i. 772. Rati, 63. 



16. Id. 184. 24. Klein, 120. 8. 

 Columba saxatilis Jamaicensis, Bris.\. 137. Id. 8vo. i. 34. 

 Pigeon de la Jamaique, Bnf. ii. 529. Id. Sonnin. vii. p. 216. 

 — — — a la couvonne blanche, Seligm. Vog. i. p. 50. 

 Colombe a calotte blanche, Temm. Pig.fol. pi. 13. Id. 8vo. i. p. 204. 

 Bald-pated Pigeon, Sloan. Jam. 303. p. 261. 2. Brown, Jam. 468. 

 White-crowned Pigeon, Gen. Syn. iv. 6l6. Cates. Car. i. pi. 65. Arct. Zool. ii. 189. 



LENGTH from ten to thirteen inches. Bill red, with a white 

 tip ; eyes surrounded with a naked, white skin ; irides yellow ; top 

 of the head white ; beneath it changeable purple ; neck green and 



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