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Susram. COLUMBINE. True Pigeons. 
Bill lengthened, slender; the base soft and tumid. 
Wings long. Feet very short. Rump feathers thick, 
rigid, and apparently spinous, as in the Ceblepyrine. 
Piilonopus, Sw. Bill slender. 
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Pritonopus. (fig. 299. a. 300. c,d) Tarsus short, fea-,. 
thered. Toes cleft to the base ; the inner shortest. Bill 
short: the extremities of the = 300 
twomandiblesof equal thick 
ness. The gonys very short, 
strong, and forming an as- 
cending angle. Tropics of == 
Asia and Australia. a 
Wings moderate ; the first 
cond, and generally nar- 
rowed ; primaries not much 
longer than the tertials. 
Tail moderate, rounded. 
purpuratus. Nat. Lib.v. pl.3: hypogaster. Pl. Col. 252. 
monachus. Pl. Col. 253. flavigaster. Ib. 254, 
leucogaster. Nat. Lib.v.pl.5. erythrocephalus. Ib. 106. 
maguificus. P]. Col. 163. 
Vinago, Cuv. (fig. 300. e) Bill very strong. Wings 
pointed ; the three first quills nearly equal, and much 
longer than the others; tertials short. 
