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vinaceous red ; neck behind and sides dusky, marked with curved 

 white spots, and others mixed with vinous ; back and rump 

 bright bluish lead-colour ; upper part of the back and wings brown ; 

 tail dusky brown; under part of the body bluish; under wing 

 and tail coverts light bluish lead-colour; legs red. The female 

 differs in being smaller. 



Inhabits Paraguay. Called by the Guaranis, Picazu ; by the 

 Spaniards, Paloma, and Paloma torcas. Generally found in pairs, 

 but sometimes in great numbers, and chiefly on trees, not well 

 clothed with leaves, but never in deep woods : is fond of the maize, 

 at its first sprouting from the ground ; it also feeds on fruits, and 

 has been known to pick up bits of raw flesh, from any recently 

 killed animal. 



79.— TIGER PIGEON. 



Columba maculosa, Colombe tigree, Temm. Pig. Suite. Id. 8vo. i. p. 113. Voy. 

 d'Jzara, iv. p. 28. No. 318. 



LENGTH twelve inches. Irides white ; head, neck, under part, 

 and sides of the body, under wing coverts, back, and rump, light 

 lead or dove-colour ; upper wing coverts brown, with a white spot 

 at the tips ; but the lesser ones are also fringed at the end with white; 

 the neck feathers appear somewhat ruffled ; legs reddish violet. 



Inhabits Paraguay, between 27 and 28 degrees of latitude, 

 according to Azara. 



80— JUNGLE PIGEON. 



LENGTH ten inches and a half. Bill one inch, pale; round the 



eye a bare space ; head pale cinereous grey, inclining to blossom 



on the crown ; neck surrounded with a pale bluish ring; beneath 



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