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black feathers, some three inches or more in length, giving the 

 appearance of the crest of the Coly ; across the wing eight or ten dusky 

 bars ; quills brown ; on the middle a large, pale, gilded, bronze 

 spot, similar to that in the Bronze-winged Pigeon ; below this several 

 of the second quills are vivid purple and copper, bronzed with blue ; 

 and all the feathers forming these vivid parts fringed at the ends with 

 white; tail cuneiform, five inches long, the outer feather, one inch 

 and a half, at least, shorter than the two middle ones ; general colour 

 dusky black, with whitish ends; the two middle feathers glossed on 

 the edges with a greenish bronze tinge ; legs red. 



The male and female much alike in plumage. 



Inhabits New-Holland. — A few of these were met with in the 

 vicinity of Macquarrie's River, but are far from common. A fine 

 pair in the Linnaean Museum. 



135 —PHEASANT-TAILED PIGEON. 



Columba pbasianella, Lin. Trans, xiii. p. 129. 



LENGTH fourteen inches and a half. Bill and legs rufous 

 brown ; plumage above dull rufous brown, inclining to chestnut ; 

 on the crown and sides of the neck, a gloss of green and purple ; 

 nape marked with broad bands of brown, and narrow ones of rufous ; 

 quills dull brown, edged and tipped with rufous chestnut ; tail very 

 long, and cuneiform, the middle feathers dull rufous, the lateral ones 

 bright rufous ; about the middle a broad band of black ; throat 

 rufous, the rest of the under parts purplish brown, transversely 

 banded with narrow black zigzags ; flanks, thighs, and under tail 

 coverts plain bright chestnut. 



Inhabits the interior of New-Holland, about Port Jackson. 



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