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B.— Columba Indica, Ind. Orn. ii. 598. Lin. i. 284. Gm. Lin. i. 785. Klein, 120. 20. 

 Palumbus Amboinensis, Bris. i. 150. t. 15. 1. Id. Svo. i. 39. 

 Green-winged Pigeon, Gen. Syn. iv. 625. Id. Sup. 198. Edw. pi. 14. 



Length ten inches. Bill scarlet, nostrils bluish ; eye dark ; fore- 

 head white ; through the eye a white streak ; top of the head bluish ; 

 sides of the head, neck, and breast, reddish ; hind part of the neck 

 deepest ; back and wing coverts green gold, glossed with copper ; 

 ridge of the wing spotted with white ; lower part of the back, rump, 

 and upper tail coverts, ash-colour ; belly, sides, thighs, and beneath 

 the tail, reddish brown ; quills brownish, the inner webs for two-thirds 

 from the base rufous ; tail three inches long, the two middle feathers 

 black, the rest cinereous, with black tips; legs red, claws black. 



Inhabits Amboina. — One figured in Lord Mountnorris's drawings 

 had the forehead dirty white, the trace over the eye not very con- 

 spicuous ; all the tail feathers cinereous, with dusky black ends. 



C. — This differs in having the top of the head reddish, not 

 inclining to blue ; no white on the ridge of the wing ; lower part of 

 the belly, thighs, and vent, dusky rufous white. 



Inhabits India, called Sonaka Pandock, or Golden Turtle Dove. 



D. — This has the crown ash-colour, the rest of the neck vina- 

 ceous, paler on the belly and vent ; wings deep green, clouded here 

 and there with black ; inner ridge of the wing white ; rump vinaceous; 

 tail short, wholly black ; it has the the streak over the eye, but 

 indistinct. 



Found with the last ; called Soon Faukta. — India drawings. 



