PIGEON. 87 



109— HOTTENTOT PIGEON. 



Colombi-Caille, Levail. Afr. vi. 116. pi. 283. male. 



Columba Hottentotta, Colombi-galline Hottentot, Temm. Pig./ol. pi. 15. Id. 8vo. i. 

 p. 429. 



SIZE of our Quail. Plumage above rufous cinnamon-colour, 

 very bright, each feather terminated with brown ; bill yellow brown ; 

 irides reddish ; forehead and throat white ; fore part of the neck, and 

 sides light vinous grey brown, marked with scales of black, the 

 feathers being edged with black on the upper parts ; middle of the 

 breast, belly, thighs, and under tail coverts light rufous; wings rufous, 

 like the back, within dusky; tail short, rounded, above cinnamon, 

 beneath rufous grey ; legs reddish. The female is smaller, and the 

 colours are less vivid. 



Inhabits Africa, found in the mountains of the Grand Namaqua, 

 within the Cape of Good Hope. 



110 —BLUE-HEADED PIGEON. 



Columba cyanocephala, 7nd.Orn.ii. 608. Lin. i. 282. Gm.Lin.\. 778. Jacquin, 



36. t. 17. 

 Turtur Jamaicensis, Bris.i. 135. t. 13. 1. Id. 8vo. i. 34. Klein, 11. p. 9. 15. 

 Colombi-perdrix a cravate noire, Levail. Afr. vi. 112. pi. 281. male. 

 Colombi-galline a cravate noire, Temm. Pig.fol. pi. 3. Id. 8vo. i. p. 390. 

 Tourterelle de la Jamaique, Buf.W. 558. PL enl. 174. Albin,\\. pi. 49. 

 Blue-headed Turtle, Gen. Syn. iv. 651. Id. Sup. p. 200. 



LENGTH eleven inches. Bill red at the base, and ash-coloured 

 at the point; crown and throat blue, descending a little way down 

 the middle of the neck before, beneath which the feathers are black, 

 and on some of them is a transverse stripe of white ; from the lower 

 jaw to the hind part of the head, a stripe of white, passing beneath 

 the eye; neck behind, back, rump, wing and tail coverts viuaceous 



