COLUMBID^. 



Inhabits the Isle of Celebes. Length eighteen 

 or nineteen inches : the head and nape are very pure 

 clear ash : the face and fore-part of the neck are pure 

 white : all the under parts of the body are whitish, 

 tinged with clear ash : the thighs, vent, and under 

 X tail-coverts are lead-colour : the back, scapulars, the 

 greater wing-coverts, and the four middle tail-fea- 

 thers, which exceed the rest in length, are of a fine 

 purple-red, or cinnamon-colour ; the rest of the tail 

 is plain black, and the four lateral feathers are black 

 at the base, ash-coloured in the middle, and tipped 

 with red or black ; the outer feather is edged with 

 white : a great part of the region of the eyes is naked, 

 and communicates with the cere ; which, and also the 

 legs, are red. 



Sp. 45. Co. Corensis. Steph. v^xi.p, 5. — South America. 

 Sp. 46. Co. auricularis. Steph. v. xi.p. 4. — Pacific Islands. 

 Sp. 47. Co. Franciae. Steph. v. xi. p. 2.*— Southern Africa. 



GENUS CCLXXXII.— LOPHYRUS *, Vieillot. 

 CROWNED-PIGEON. 



Generic character : vide Steph. v. xi.p. 119, 120- I 



Sp. 1. Lo. Indicus. 



Goiira coronata. Steph. v. xi. p. 120. — India. ^ 



GENUS CCLXXXIIL—GOURA, Temminck. 

 GROUND-DOVE. 



Generic character: vide Steph. v. xi. p. 119. 



* The name of this genus should be changed, it having been 

 used by Latreille for a genus of Tenthredinideous insects, nearly 

 twenty years prior to its publication by Vieillot. ^ 



