96 PIGEON. 



rufous ; breast, belly, and vent, pale vinaceous ; quills rufous within 

 and dusky without ; tail olive-brown ; the ends of the three outer 

 feathers white ; legs red. In the male the back has some gilded 

 reflections of purple. — Inhabits Guiana. Thought by M. Temminck 

 to be the same as the White-bellied Species. 



* * WITH CUNEIFORM LONG TAILS. 



122— MIGRATORY PIGEON. 



Columba migratoria, Ind.Orn.W. 612. Lin. i. 285. Gtn.Lin.i. 789. Borowsk. iii. 



205. t. 214. Bartr. Trav. 288. 467. 

 Oenas Americana, Bris. i. 100. Id. 8vo. i. 24. Frisch, t. 142. 

 Palumbus Caroliniensis, Klein, 119. 



Pigeon de Passage, Buf. ii. 527. Sonnin. Buf. vii. 210. Cates. Car. i. pi. 23. 

 Colombe voyageuse, Temm. Pig.fol. pi. 48. 49. Id. 8vo. i. p. 346. 

 Passenger, or Migratory Pigeon, Gen. Syn. iv. 661. Arct. Zool.n. No. 187. Phil. 



Trans, lxii. 398. Kalm. Trav. ii. pi. in p. 82. Amer. Orn. v. p. 102. pi. 44. f. 1. 



Wood's Zoogr. i. p. 474. Frankl. Narr. App. p. 670. 



SIZE of the Common Pigeon ; length from fourteen to sixteen 

 inches, extent of wing twenty-four ; weight about nine ounces. Bill 

 eleven lines long, and black ; round the eyes crimson ; irides orange ; 

 throat and all the upper parts cinereous; wing coverts marked with 

 some black spots ; sides of the neck glossy, variable purple ; fore 

 part of the neck and breast vinaceous ; belly and under parts the 

 same, but paler; quills black brown, with pale cinereous white 

 edges, half way from the base, broadest on the inner ones; tail 

 greatly cuneiform, consisting of twelve feathers, the middle and 

 outer one differing in length five inches ; the two middle dove-colour 

 black, the next on each side very little shorter, of a pale lead-colour, 

 except the inner web, from the middle to the end, and about one 

 inch from the tip, where it is very pale, almost white; the next one 



