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EGYPTIAN PIGEON. 



(Columba -^gyptiaca.) 



Co. teslaceo-incarnata, guld plumis apice bilobis truncatis fir- 



^u^^mis nigro-maculatis. 

 Testaceous flesh-coloured Pigeon, with the feathers on the 



throat spotted with black, at their tips bilobed and truncated, 



of a ferruginous hue. 

 Columba ^gyptiaca. Lath. Ind, Orn. 2. 607. AQ. — Temm. 



Pig. Ind. 46l. 

 Colombe Egyptienne. Temm. Pig. (8vo.) 370. 

 Egyptian Pigeon. Lath. Gen. Syn. Sup, ILp. 267* 3. 



Beak black : head flesh- colour, with a tinge 

 of violet : orbits naked and bluish : the feathers 

 on the throat wedge-shaped, divided at their tips, 

 and truncated at the ends ; they are black at their 

 origin, and rusty flesh-colour at their tips : the 

 back is grey : the breast violet : belly and thighs 

 white : wings principally brown ; the two outer 

 tail-feathers at their base cinereous ; the middle 

 black, and terminated by white ; the two next on 

 each side grey at their base, black in the middle, 

 and white at the tip only ; the fifth brown on each 

 side, with the middle dusky ; the two middle ones 

 entirely brown : legs flesh-colour. Inhabits Egypt, 

 frequenting houses. 



