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FERRUGINOUS-VENTED PIGEON. 



lours change to a beautiful purple, according to 

 the light: the breast is marked with a kind of 

 girdle of purple, and one of white : the wing- 

 coverts are of the same colour with the neck ; the 

 quills are dusky : the belly is of a dusky grey : 

 the legs are red and the feet black. Inhabits the 

 island of Eimeo in the South Seas. 



FERRUGINOUS-VENTED PIGEON. 

 (Columba cristata.) 



Co. capite-subcristato, collo pectoreque cinereo-albis, hvmeris spa- 



diceis, crisso /errugineo, caudd nigricante. 

 Pigeon with the head slightly crested, the neck and breast of 



an ashy white, the shoulders chesnut, the vent ferruginous, 



and the tail dusky. 

 Columba cristata, Temm. Pig. Ind. 41 9. 



Columba pacifica. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 6OO. 27. — Gmel. Syst. Nat. 

 1. 777- 



Colombe largup. Temm, Pig. Jam. seconde pi. Enl. Q. — Id. edit. 

 8vo. p. 108. 



Ferruginous- vented Pigeon. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 633. 24. 



This species is rendered very remarkable by 

 being ornamented with a moveable tufted crest 

 on the occiput : its length is nearly fourteen 

 inches : the beak, which is one inch in length, is 

 greatly curved towards the point : the head, the 

 neck, the breast, and the belly, are of a grey 

 shade, with clear purple tinges : with metallic re- 



