PIGEON. 



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wing coverts, nearest the body, the same, the others ash-colour, as 

 well as the lower part of the back and rump; belly and under parts 

 white ; quills ash-colour, beneath and within brown ; tail much 

 rounded, the six middle feathers cinereous brown, the three exterior 

 on each side, dark ash-colour to the middle, and then white to the 

 ends; under parts half black, half ash-colour, but the three outer 

 feathers are white ; legs red. 



Inhabits Senegal, as well as other parts of the African Coast. 

 M. Thunberg shot this species near Picquet Mountain, at the Cape 

 of Good Hope ; but it is found in greater plenty farther up the 

 country, and was never met with so near the Cape till within seven 

 years before that time.* 



71 —PAINTED PIGEON. 



Columba picturata, Colombe peinte, Temm, Pig. 8vo. i. p. 315. 



LENGTH eleven inches. Bill and legs bluish ash-colour ; head, 

 hind part of the neck, and throat greyish ash-colour ; fore part of the 

 neck, breast, and belly, light vinaceous ; on the sides of the neck 

 some feathers bifid at the ends ; at the base they are black, but the 

 ends are pale vinaceous, and appear not unlike a coat of mail ; back, 

 and lesser wing coverts, vinaceous ; scapulars, and second quills 

 brown ; tail longish, and rounded at the end ; the two middle feathers 

 brown, the others dusky grey, for one-fourth towards the end blackish. 



This is met with in the Isle of France, where it is found for a 

 small space at certain times, appearing to rest there in the course of 

 its migration to some other place : it is probably a new Species. 



* Thunberg , s Travels, ii. 140. 

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