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CoLUMBA Domestica: minor verficolor, dorfo inferiore albo.— 

 X C. pennis in pe6tore recuvis. Lath, Ind. Orn, 

 592. 2. 



Brif. Jv. Lp.75. F. 

 Frifch. Jv, t, 147. 

 Pigeon a Cravate. Buff. Hiji. Nat. des, oif, 2. 513. t, 23. 



This is a pleafing and very curious variety of the domeftic Pigeon, 

 the colour of the plumage generally cinereous, and white : tail at the 

 endj and bars on the wing black : eyelids tumid, bill and legs red ; 

 head and neck white, and the fides of the breaft a fine glolTy green, 

 paffing backwards in a fomewhat femilunated form, and uniting below 

 the nape of the neck. 



But the chief chara6ler by which this variety is diftinguiflied is the 

 remarkable proje6ling ruff of feathers on the breaft, which defcends 

 from below the throat in a longitudinal direStion : thefe feathers open 

 or divide in a perpendicular line, forming two diftin6i: tufts, one of 

 which bends outwards to the right, and the other to the left, or in 

 the more fimple language of fcience, thefe feathers are recurvate. 

 Our fpecimen is about the fame fize as the common variety of the 

 domeftic Pigeon. 



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