COLUMBID^. 



293 



breast and belly sappliirine-greeii ; abdomen, thighs^, and under 

 tail-coverts ochracepus. 



Inhabits New Holland. A most beautiful species: 

 length about sixteen inches : all the head, the cheeks, 

 and nape are ash-coloured ; this colour mingling by 

 half tints with the brilliant golden-green with which 

 the upper parts of the plumage are adorned : the 

 brilliancy of this colour is relieved by a great number 

 of lively yellow spots, disposed on all the wing- 

 coverts, lengthwise : the secondaries, feathers and 

 quills are of a deep changeable green ; all the fea- 

 thers of the tail, which is long and rounded, are of 

 the same hue, and appear in certain lights of a glossy 

 brilliancy, like the feathers of the Jacamars : from 

 the throat, expanding over the fore part of the neck 

 to the breast, is a broad purple-violet band, changing 

 in certain positions to a fine sapphirine-green : the 

 chief part of the breast and belly are of this colour : 

 the sides of the breast are of the same s:reen with the 

 back : the abdomen, the thighs, and the under tail- 

 coverts are of a deep yellow, or ochraceous hue : this 

 colour is also exhibited on the flanks : all the under 

 wing-coverts are golden-yellow : the tail is ashy be- 

 neath : the legs are bluish : the beak brown, but 

 reddish towards its tip : the naked space round the 

 eyes is x'ed : the irides are also red. 



Sp. 44. Columba Reinvvardtsii. Temm. PI. Col. 248. 



Co. purpiireo-rufo, infra albido-cinerasce?ite; capite nuchaque 



finer eis,Jacie collogue antice albis ; Jemorihiis , crisso, teclrici- 



busque vaudce inferioribus plumbeis. 

 ,Purple-red Pigeon, beneath wliitish-ash 3 with the head and nape 



cinereous J the face and neck anteriorly white ; the thighs, vent, 



and under tail-coverts lead -coloured. 



