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83— RUST-FRONTED PIGEON. 



LENGTH seven inches. Bill black ; upper parts of the body 

 chocolate brown ; forehead, sides, round the eyes, and all beneath to 

 the belly, fine ferruginous, passing round the lower part of the neck 

 as a ring ; lower belly, thighs, and vent, pale reddish ash-colour ; 

 wings greenish brown ; quills and tail dusky ; legs red. 



In the collection of drawings in the possession of Mr. Dent. 



84— YELLOW-FRONTED PIGEON. 



LENGTH eight inches. Bill black ; forehead to the middle of 

 the crown deep yellow; behind deep green, and below this fine 

 chestnut ; sides, beneath the eye, greenish white, and between the 

 bill and eye chestnut ; upper parts of the bird brownish chestnut, 

 under wing coverts chestnut, with a yellowish mixture ; all beneath 

 from the breast yellow, paler down the middle; vent pale ; under 

 tail coverts pale ash ; legs red. 



Found with the last described. Native place of both uncertain. 



85— PURPLE-BREASTED PIGEON. 



Columba Eimensis, hid. Orn. ii. 599. Gm. Lin. i. 784. 



Colombe a Collier pourpre, Tern. Pig. Suite. Id. 8vo. i. p. 372. Sonnin. Bit/, vii. 263. 



Purple-breasted Pigeon, Gen. Si/n. iv. 629. 



LENGTH fourteen inches. Bill black ; sides of the head, be- 

 neath the eyes, dusky; forehead, throat, and fore part of the neck, 

 pale rufous, or vinaceous; crown and neck behind dusky brown, the 

 former tinged with green ; sides of the neck red-brown, changing to 

 glossy purple, or lake, in proceeding downwards, and uniting on 



