90 PIGEON. 



113 — TETRAOID PIGEON. 



Columba tetraoides, Ind. Orn. ii. 594. Gm. Lin. i. 772. Scop. i. No. 180. 

 Tetraoid Pigeon, Gen. Syn. iv. 616. 



THIS is said to be equal to the Red-legged Partridge in size. 

 Head and neck black, encompassed with a white ring, as in that 

 bird : further than this we have no description, or any account from 

 whence it came, except that it was seen in a Menagerie. 



114.— RED-BREASTED PIGEON. 



Columba cruenta, Ind. Orn. ii. 611. Gm. Lin.l. 785. 



Colombi-galliue poignarde, Tentm. Pig.fol. pi. 8. & 9. Id. 8vo. i. p. 407. 



La Tourterelle grise ensanglantee, Son. Voy. Ind. 52. pi. 21. Son. Biif. vii. p. 302. 



Red-breasted Turtle, Gen. Syn. iv. 657. 



SIZE of the Common Turtle; length ten inches and a half. Bill 

 black; irides ferruginous; top of the head whitish grey; the neck 

 behind violet, glossed with green r before white ; on the breast a 

 blood-coloured spot, paler on the edges; the belly grey, tinged with 

 red ; across the wings two grey bands, and between these two of 

 black ; quills black ; tail grey at the base, and black at the end ; 

 legs reddish violet. — Inhabits Manilla. 



A. — In this Variety the neck behind is pale rufous red, but not 

 glossy ; back, between the wings, brownish grey ; wing coverts blue 

 grey; the rest of the wing rufous red; across the wing two blue grey 

 bands, but the spaces between not black ; tail deep blue black. 



Inhabits India : the last described from drawings. Perouse met 

 with these, which he called Stabbed Doves, at Morvula, one of the 

 Philippine Islands.* 



* Voy. ii. 299. 



