108 PIGEON. 



136— GREAT-TAILED PIGEON. 



Columba macrouva, Ltd. Orn. ii. 615. Gm. Lin. i. 790. 



Le Tourocco, Buf. ii. 553. Temm. Pig. 8vo. i. p. 344. 



Tourterelle a large Queue, PL enl. 329. Sonnin. Buf. vii. 285. t. 69. f. 2. 



Great-tailed Pigeon, Gen. Syn. iv. 667. 



LENGTH twelve inches. Bill red, base covered with a white 

 cere ; head, neck, and upper parts of the body, reddish cinnamon- 

 colour; breast, belly, and thighs, dusky white; tail very long, 

 cuneiform, and at least half the length of the bird, in colour like the 

 tipper parts, the ends of the feathers white ; legs red. 



Inhabits Senegal : is said to carry the tail like the Crested 

 Curassow. 



