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PIGEON. 



72— JAVAN TURTLE. 



Columba Javanica, Ind. Orn. ii. 610. Gm. Lin. i. 781. Lin. Trans, xiii. 183. 317. 

 Le Turvert, Buf. ii. 556. (third species.) Temm. Pig.fol. pi. 26. itf. 8vo. i. 252. 

 Tourterelle de Java, PL enl. 177. 

 Javan Turtle, Gen. Si/n. iv. 654. 



LENGTH nine or ten inches. Bill pale red, covered with a 

 white cere; head, neck, and breast, vinaceous red; forehead and 

 sides palest; back and wings deep green; greater quills brown; 

 belly dusky, very pale towards the tail, which is dusky beneath ; 

 legs red. 



Inhabits Java, and called Delimu, and Glimukan ; is frequently 

 kept tame. That mentioned by Sir T. S. Raffles, had the head and 

 neck cinereous blue; forehead and temples whitish. Is called also 

 Poonai Touna, because it is seen generally on or near the ground, 

 and rarely on trees. They are caught by means of the following 

 device : — a small hut is erected, sufficient to conceal the fowler ; a 

 space is cleared in front of it, and a tame Pigeon placed on it ; a 

 trumpet is then blown within the hut, and the wild Pigeons are 

 attracted by the sound ; when they alight, they are taken by a run- 

 ning noose at the end of a wand, which the fowler manages without 

 being seen by the birds. At Sumatra is known by the name of 

 Limoo-an. 



A. — Columba caeruleocephala, Ind. Orn. ii. 610. Gm. Lin. i. 781. 

 Blue-crowned Turtle, Gen. Sy». iv. 655. 



In this the bill is red ; crown of the head blue ; upper parts of 

 the neck and body green ; neck and under parts reddish ; quills and 

 tail blue black. 



Inhabits India and China, at the latter called Yaupan. 



