PURPLE-BREASTED PIGEON. 



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Haggerero. It is of a very large size, measuring 

 seventeen inches and upwards : the beak is about 

 one inch in length, and is red, as are the eyes 

 and feet : the upper parts of this bird are of a 

 rufous-brown, changing on the front of the neck 

 to green tints : the wing-quills are dusky : the 

 rump is blue : the tail black, with its under sur- 

 face and all the lower parts of the body white : 

 the inferior coverts of the tail are bluish. 



PURPLE-BREASTED PIGEON. 

 (Columba Eimensis.) 



Co. fusco-mrescenSj fronte colloque subfus vinaceis, pectore tectri- 



cibusque alarum fusco-rubris, fascia pectorali albd. 

 Brown-green Pigeon^ with the forehead and neck beneath vina- 



ceous, the breast and wing-coverts of a red-brown, a white 



fascia on the breast. 

 Columba Eimensis. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 5gg. 21. — Gmel. Syst, 



Nat. 1. 784.— Temm. Pig. Ind. 465. 

 Le Pigeon ramier a collier pourpre. Sonnini. edit. Buff, v. 7. 



263. 



Colombe a collier pourpre. Temm, Pig. (Svo.J p. 372. 

 Purple-breasted Pigeon. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 629. IQ. 



The length of this species is about fourteen 

 inches : the top of its head and its nape is brown ; 

 the forehead, the throat, and the front of the 

 neck are of a pale red, or vinaceous colour : the 

 sides of the neck are of a red brown : these co- 



