NUTMEG PIGEON. 



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the time, uttering its cry : it is a great enemy to 

 the White Eagle of Le Vaillant. 



NUTMEG PIGEON. 

 (Columba senea.) 



Co. corpore ceneo, rostro virescente^ pectore abdomineque suhtus 

 griseo-ccBruleis, remigibus caiiddque ex carulescente mridibus. 

 Femina. Capite pectore abdomineque subtus griseo-rufis, re- 

 migibus cauddque viridi-riigris. 



Pigeon, with a brassy body, the beak greenish, the breast and 

 abdomen beneath of a greyish-blue j the quills and tail of a 

 bluish-green. Female, with the head, breast, and abdomen 

 beneath of a rufous-grey ; the quills and tail green-black. 



Columba aeuea. Li?in. Syst. Nat, 1. 283. 22- — Gmel. Syst. Nat, 

 \, 280.— Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 602. ^H.—Temm. Pig. Ind. /7.446. 



Palumbus Moluccensis. Briss. Orn. 1. 148. 41. ^. 13./. 2. 



Pigeon ramier des Moluques. Buf. Ois. 2. 538.— Buf. PL Enl, 

 164. 



Pigeon cuivre mangeur de muscade. Sonner.Voy. Ind. l68. 

 102. var. 



Colombe muscadivore. Temm. Pig. edit. 8vo. p. 86. 

 Nutmeg Pigeon. Lath. Gen. Svn. 4 . 636. 30 —4. 63;. 30. b. 



> The adult male of this species has the whole of 

 the head, the neck, and the under parts of the 

 plumage of a beautiful grey-blue : the shoulders, 

 the back, the great and little wing-coverts of a 

 deep green, with metallic reflections ; the primary 

 quills and secondaries are of a blue-green : the 



