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PICAZU PIGEON. 

 (Columba maculata.) 



Co. capite et parte colli anteriori vinaceis, utroque latere colli ni- 

 grescente albo terminato, dorso uropygioque cceruleo-plumbeis, 

 alis et Cauda fiiscis, pemiis caudce atro terminatis. 



Pigeon with the head and anterior part of the neck vinaceous ; 

 both sides of the neck dusky, terminated by white j the back 

 and rump blue-lead colour; the wings and tail brown, the 

 feathers of the latter terminated with dusky. 



Columba Picazuro. Temm. Pig. Ind. 449- 



Colombe Picazuro. Temm. Pig. edit. Qvo. 111. 



Described by Temminck : in length thirteen 

 inches and a half: the tail is composed of twelve 

 round feathers : the eyes are situated in a naked 

 space, which reaches to the angles of the mouth : 

 the whole of the head, the throat, and the fore 

 part of the neck, of a vinaceous red : the feathers 

 of the upper part of the sides of the neck are 

 rounded and dusky, with white spots in shape of 

 a horse-shoe : the back and rump are of a lively 

 lead colour : the upper part of the back and the 

 wings are brown ; with the extremity of the tail 

 dusky : the under parts of the body are bluish : 

 the inferior wing-coverts and those of the tail are 

 of a bright blue-lead colour: the tarsi are of a 

 reddish violet : the irides are fine red, and the 

 rest of the eye of a blood red : the beak is blue, 

 and is covered with a whitish powder. The female 

 rather less than the male, and her colours are less 

 brilliant. It inhabits Paraguay. 



