64 PIGEON. 



the beautiful Turtle Dove mentioned by Bougainville* is the same, 

 cannot be well determined. This voyager mentions also, Pigeons of 

 a green and gold plumage, t with a greyish white neck and belly, 

 and a little crest on their heads ; but the description is too concise to 

 determine any thing about it. 



In the collection of General Davies was one with the head and 

 neck pale bluish grey; on the top of the head a deep purple spot; 

 edges of the quills yellow ; the rest as in the first described ; the bill 

 yellow ; legs dusky. This was brought from Tongo taboo. 



We found, too, among some other drawings, a bird answering to 

 the description, but without the greyish bar near the end of the tail, 

 that part being of one colour, glossy rufous green, and a trifle hol- 

 lowed out at the end, which is for half an inch white : we observed 

 one bird with the crown dull crimson, and the feathers edged with 

 yellow; in another dusky purple, halfway pale crimson. 



In that figured as a male by M. Teinminck, there is an orange 

 broad band across the belly, just before the thighs, and the tail 

 feathers are green at the ends. 



75— RED-CROWNED PIGEON. 



Columba rubricapilla, Ind. Om. ii. 599. Gm. Lin. i. 784. 

 Le Pigeon violet a tete rouge d'Antigue, Son. Voy. p. 112. t. 67. 

 Colombe Rouge cap, Temm. Pig.fol. pi. 20. Id. 8vo. i. p. 233. 

 Red-crowned Pigeon, Gen. Syn. iv. 628. 



LENGTH ten inches. Bill grey, from the base of the upper 

 mandible a fleshy bright red membrane, which encircles the eyes ; 

 the irides have two circles, a large one of red, and a lesser grey; 

 top of the head covered with slender feathers of a fine red colour, 

 forming a kind of hood ; the neck, upper part of the back, and breast 

 bluish grey, paler on the breast ; the feathers long and loose ; the 



* Voy. p. 247. t Id. p. 329. 



