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TRIANGULAR-SPOTTED PIGEON. 



(Columba Guinea.) 



Co. corpore purpurascente-Jiisco wolaceo^nitentej alis macuUs albis 

 triquetriSf rectricibus apice nigris, pennis pectoralibus bifurcis. 



Pigeon, with the body of a purple brown, shining with violet 5 

 the wings with triangular white spots ; the tail-feathers 

 black at their tips^ and the feathers on the breast bifid. 



Columba Guinea. Linn, Si/st, Nat. 1. 232. 16. — Gmel. Syst, 

 Nat. 1. 7y4,'-Briss. Orn. 1. 132. 30.— Tmrn. Pig, Ind, 462. 

 Lath. Lnd, Orn, 2. 603. 35. 



Pigeon de Guinee. Buff, Ois. 2. 538. 



La Tourterelle du Cap de Bonne Esperance. Sonner. Voy, Lnd. 

 2. 179. 



Colombe roussard. Le Vaill, Ois, (VAfrique. v, 6. pi, 265, — 



Temm, Pig. (8w.) 214. 

 Triangular-spotted Pigeon. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 639. 32. 



Twelve inches and a half in length : the beak 

 is dusky, and the membrane that covers the nos- 

 trils grey : the eyes are surrounded with a naked 

 red space: the irides bright yellow: the head, 

 neck, and under parts of the body pale ash-colour : 

 belly and vent white : the feathers of the neck are 

 pointed, of an ash-colour, with vinaceous margins ; 

 their tips are bifid : the upper part of the back, the 

 scapulars, and the whole of the wing-coverts pur- 

 plish brown, glossed with violet ; the lesser quills 

 the same ; each feather is tipped with a triangular 

 white spot, the point upwards : the greater and 

 middle quills black, with grey edges : the tail-fea- 

 thers grey at their origin, and black towards their 



