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SPOTTED PIGEON. 



guished by the name of the Sea Pigeon, from its 

 principal habitation in that island being upon the 

 rocks on the coasts : it is migratory : like the 

 preceding, it feeds upon Nutmegs, and voids the 

 nuts uninjured, and is said, by that means, to 

 convey the plant from island to island. 



SPOTTED PIGEON. 

 (Columba maculosa.) 



Co. capite, parte corporis inferiori, dor so uropygioque caruleo- 

 cineraceisy tectricibus alarum Jiiscis maculam alham versus ex- 

 tremitatem habentibus^ partibus colli lateralibus unicoloribus. 



Pigeon, with the head, the under parts of the body, the back, 

 and rump, blue-grey 5 the wing-coverts brown, with a white 

 spot towards their extremity ; the sides of the neck of one 

 colour. 



Columba maculosa. Temm. Pig. Ind, 450. 

 Colombe tigree. Temm. Pig. edit. Qvo. 113. 



This species inhabits Paraguay ; it is described 

 by Temminck : its total length is twelve inches : 

 the whole of the head, the neck, the under part and 

 sides of the body, the inferior wing-coverts, the 

 back, and t he rump, are entirely of a greyish lead- 

 colour : the upper wing-coverts have a small white 

 spot towards their extremity, the rest is brown : 

 the lesser coverts have a white margin on their 



