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COLUMBID^. 



Vinago with the head, throat, rump, belly, and sides green, spotted 

 with ashy-green; the nape, back, and wings, fine green; the four 

 middle tail-feathers yellow-green ; the breast with an orange- 

 yellow patch ; the wings with a longitudinal yellow line. 



Columba Capellei. Temm. PI. Col. 143. 



Inhabits Java. Length thirteen inches ; the male 

 has the forehead ash-colour : the head, throat, rump, 

 beHy, and sides clear-green, sprinkled with ashy-grey : 

 the nape, the back, and the wings are beautiful deep 

 green : the four middle tail-feathers are bright yellow- 

 green : the breast is covered by a large patch of orange- 

 yellow : the greater wing-feathers are fine black ; 

 the secondaries have the outer edge bright yellow ; 

 forming a longitudinal band when the wing is closed : 

 the lateral tail-feathers are ash-eoloured at the base, 

 then fine black, and tipped with clear grey ; beneath 

 entirely black, with the tips whitish : the under coverts 

 are deep marron : the beak is bluish-green : the legs 

 red. The female differs from the male in having the 

 colours more varied with ash : the thoracic patch 

 being greenish : the black and the cinereous on the 

 tail being shaded with greenish : the abdomen spotted 

 with whitish, and all their under coverts being red- 

 di&lj-white, spotted with green. ^ 



GENUS CCLXXX.— PTILINOPUS, Swainson 



Rostrum graeile. Beak slender 



Alee mediocres, remigum 



prima apicem versus con- 



tracta, tertia quartaque 



longissimis. 

 Tarsi plumosi. 



Wings moderate, with the 

 first quill contracted to- 

 wards the tip, the third 

 and fourth longest. 

 Tarsi plumose. 



