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white ; tail dark ash-colour, tinged at the base with green ; below 

 black at the root, and the end half cinereous : some individuals have 

 more purple on the shoulders than others, as well as more brown on 

 the under tail coverts, and want the green on the tail feathers : this 

 probably distinguishes the sexes, but which is the male appears 

 uncertain ; legs yellow, claws black. 



This is the Hurrial, or Hurta Googoo, of the Bengalese, and derives 

 a name in that language from the neck being the colour of orpiment ; 

 it lives in very large fig trees, the fruit of which is its principal food ; 

 is never seen on the ground, but keeps entirely on those fine shady 

 trees : found at Calcutta the whole year. — Dr. Buchanan. 



One of these, in General Hardwicke's fine drawings, had the bill 

 and claws white; tail dove-colour: shot at Cawnpore, in March. 



94— PARROT PIGEON. 



Columba vernans, Ind. Orn. ii. 599. Lin. Mant. 1771. 526. Gm. Lin. i. 789. Lin. 



Trans, xiii. 318. 

 Columba viridis Philippensis, Bris. i. 143. t. 11. 2. Id. 8vo. i. 37. 

 Pigeon vert des Philippines, Buf. ii. 528. PI. ml. 138. 

 Colombar Joojoo, Temm. Pig.fol. pi. 10. 11. Id. 8vo. i. 70. 

 Columba Maderaspatana, Rait, 196. t. 2. f. 15. — Parrot Dove. 

 Pigeon vert male de Luzon, Son. Voy. 110. pi. 64. 



verd femelle de Luzon, Son. Voy. 111. pi. 65. 



Parrot Pigeon, Gen. Syn. iv. 629. — male. 630.— female. 



LENGTH nine or ten inches. Bill slender, whitish, and inclining 



to red at the base ; irides of two circles, the outer red, the inner blue ; 



space round the eye not naked ; head and throat dull olive-green ; 



iieck pale chestnut, with a vinaceous tinge ; back, rump, sides, and 



upper tail coverts, green ; wing coverts the same, the greater tipped 



with brimstone, forming a bar on the wing ; breast orange, inclined 



to purple above; belly and thighs, pale yellowish olive-green; 



towards the vent nearly yellow; under tail coverts rufous, and as 



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