Tas. LIX. | 
COLUMBA LEUCONOTA. 
Col. capite canescenti-atro; crisso caudaique nigris; nuchi, corpore subtus, dorso medio, caude- 
que fascia lata media, albis ; tegminibus alarum vinaceo-canis ; dorso superior: scapularibus- 
que brunnescente-canis ; remigibus, fascusque alarum brunnescenti-fuscrs. 
Statura Col. Palumbi, Linn. 
THE specimen from which this Plate was taken is the only one of this elegant and chastely coloured Pigeon 
with which we are acquainted. It was sent in the first collection received from the Himalaya, and our sub- 
sequent endeavours to procure others or to ascertain if any exist in our museums, whether public or private, 
have hitherto proved fruitless. ‘The species, however, was observed by Mr. Shore among the woods of the 
Himalaya, and a specimen is represented in his drawings differing little from that which is given in the 
accompanying Plate, except in the colouring of the legs, which he has represented as bright red. We have 
every reason to believe this representation to be correct, and had not the Plate been published before we had 
an opportunity of examining Mr. Shore’s valuable manuscript, his colouring, taken from the living bird, would 
have been adopted instead of that which we now consider to be the faded hue of a dead specimen. 
The Columba leuconota belongs to that division of the family which comprehends the Wood Pigeons 
common to Europe, which it closely resembles in all its habits and manners. . 
The head and upper part of the neck are of. a dull black; the lower part of the neck, lower part of the 
back, rump, and under surface pure white ; upper part of the back and scapulars brownish grey ; wing- 
coverts light grey, with a vinaceous tinge ; quills brown ; tail-coverts black; the tail black with a broad 
white band. 
The figure is of the natural size. 
