SCOLLOP-NECKED PIGEON. 



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flections on the throat and the breast: beneath 

 the eyes, and on the throat, is a large patch of 

 earthy yellow colour : the shoulders, the scapu- 

 lars, and the lesser wing-coverts, are of a viola- 

 ceous purple, with rich reflections : the greater 

 coverts and the secondary feathers are dusky, 

 with a purplish reflection : the general colour of 

 the back, and the whole of the tail-feathers, is 

 dusky : the thighs, the abdomen, and also the 

 under tail-coverts, are of a beautiful ferruginous : 

 the greater quills are of a lively red : the feet are 

 red : and the beak and claws brown. 



This fine species inhabits the Friendly Islands 

 in the South Seas. 



SCOLLOP-NECKED PIGEON. 

 (Columba speciosa.) 



Co. Jerruginea, cauda nigricaute, coUo inferiore pectureque rufo 



albo purpureoque nndulatis. 

 Ferruginous Pigeon, with a dusky tail, the neck beneath and 



the breast undulated with rufous^ white, and purple. 

 Columba speciosa. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 783. — Lath, Ind. Orn. 



2. e05. 45 —Ttmm. Pio-. Lid. 460. 

 Le Ramiret. Buff'. Ois. 2. 541. 

 Pigeon ramier de Cayenne. Buff, PL Enl, p. 213, 

 Colombe ramiret. Temm. Pig. (SvoJ 208. 

 Scollop-necked Pigeon. Lath. Ltd. Orn. 4. 643. 3g. 



Near fourteen inches in length : beak red, co- 

 vered with a white cere : the head ferruginous : 



