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copper gloss ; neck before reddish clay ; breast, belly, thighs, and 

 under tail coverts, light clay-colour; besides which, is a spot of 

 white on each side, under the eye, and another at the side of the 

 throat, near the joint of the wing. These birds build in trees which 

 have low boughs, and make the nest with hair and cotton ; at first 

 sight have greatly the appearance of Partridges. 



How far we can allow of the above being found in Saint Helena, 

 cannot easily be determined ; for I find in Mr. Anderson's catalogue, 

 one set down by the name of Perdix montana, and said to be 

 common in that Island, but without further description. 



112— MARTINICO PIGEON. 



Columba Martinica, Ind. Orn. ii. 595. Lin. i. 283. Gm. Lin. i. 781. , 



violacea Martinicana, Bris.'x. 129. t. 12. f. 1. Id. 8vo. i. p 32. 



Pigeon violet de la Martinique, Biif. ii. 525. PI. enl. 162. 

 Colombi-galline roux violet, Temm.Pig.fol. pi. 5. 6. Id. 8vo. i. p. 400. 

 Columba rufa Cayennensis, Bris. i. 131. pi. 12. f. 2. Id. 8vo. i. p. 32. 

 Pigeon roux de Cayenne, PI. enl. 141. male. 



rouge et jaune, Voy. d' Azara,\\. No. 321. 

 Martinico Pigeon, Gen. Syn. iv. 618. 



SIZE of a Turtle; length nine inches and a quarter. Bill red ; 

 eye surrounded with crimson tubercles ; irides crimson ; head, neck, 

 and upper part of the body chestnut, with a violet gloss ; chin and 

 throat flesh-colour ; beneath the eye a long, flesh-coloured streak ; 

 breast and belly, to the thighs, purplish flesh-colour; from thence to 

 the vent yellow ochre ; quills violet chestnut on the outer edges, on 

 the inner rufous ; tail like the quills; legs red. 



The female is much the same in colour, but wants the flesh- 

 coloured streak beneath the eye; and all the under parts, from the 

 breast, are the colour of yellow ochre, though somewhat paler than 

 in the male. 



Inhabits Martinico, and there called a Partridge. 



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