80 PIGEON. 



neck, breast, belly, rump, upper tail coverts, and tail, olive-green, 

 inclining to yellow on the neck and breast; under part of the tail 

 black at the base, and greyish white towards the end ; coverts dirty 

 yellowish white; back and wing coverts fine chestnut; the tips of 

 of some yellowish, forming a band on the wing ; and below this 

 black, edged with yellow ; bend of the wing blackish ; quills black, 

 edged with yellow, narrowest on the prime ones ; legs grey. 



Inhabits Amboina, also Java, where it is called Bouron-Jouane.* 



A. — Bill and legs dusky ; head, neck, and under parts of the 

 body, fine pale blue grey; on the crown a large deep dusky spot, 

 inclining to purple; back and wings deep chestnut purple ; across 

 the lower wing coverts some feathers with whitish ends, forming a 

 bar; below this others with the ends white ; on the middle of the 

 wing some ash-coloured ones, forming a patch ; greater quills and 

 tail black ; the wings reach one-third on the tail. 



Inhabits India. We do not learn what food it prefers, but it is not 

 improbable, that part of its food may be the nutmeg, and that the name 

 may have been not improperly applied from the circumstance. 



B. — Colombar aromatique, var. Temm. Pig.fol. pi. 6. Id. 8vo. i. 53. 



This has the head, neck, and breast, rufous cinnamon-colour ; 

 belly and vent blue grey ; thighs and margins of the wing coverts 

 yellow ; tail black ; beneath all the feathers ending in dirty white. 



From Batavia. 



* From Jouane green, and Bouron Bird. 



