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96.— GREY-HEADED PIGEON. 



Columba albicapilla, Ind. Orn.Yi. 597. Gm. Lin. i. 775. 

 Pigeon vert a tete grise d'Antigue, Son. Voy. 112. t. 66. 

 Grey-headed Pigeon, Gen. Syn. iv. 623. 



SIZE of the last. Bill dull red; irides yellow ; upper part of 

 the head dirty white ; hind part of the head and sides of the neck 

 reddish brown, glossed with copper ; second quills bright green, 

 with a changeable, metalline gloss; greater quills and tail black ; 

 between the bend of the wing and the body, a semicircular spot of 

 feathers, half green, half grey ; the rest of the body green ; legs dull 

 red. — Inhabits the Isle of Panay. 



97.— TABUAN PIGEON. 



LENGTH about eight inches. Bill ash-colour; crown pale 

 crimson; the rest of the head, and neck to the breast, pale ash-colour; 

 plumage above green, margins of the feathers reddish ; beneath 

 from the breast pale dull green ; vent yellowish ; on the breast a 

 large crimson spot ; thighs grey ; legs brown : the tail was wanting. 



Inhabits Tongo taboo. — In the collection of General Davies. 



98— WAALIA PIGEON. 



Columba Abyssinica, Ind. Orn. Sztp. p. lx. 

 Columbar, Levail. Afr. vi. pi. 276. 277. 



Waalia, Temm. Pig.fol. pi. 8. & 9. male and female. Id. 8vo. i. 64. 



Waalia Pigeon, Gen. Syn. ii. 269. Bruce's Trav. iv. 282. 290. Id. App. t. p. 186. 



LENGTH eleven inches and a half. Bill bluish white; nostrils 

 large; irides dark orange ; the general colour of the plumage green, 



