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SPOTTED GREEN PIGEON, 

 (Columba Picazuro.) 



Co. saturate mridis, corpore rufra albido-ynaculato abdomine nigri- 



cante, cauda nigra apice ferrugined. 

 Dark-green Pigeon, with the body above spotted with whitish;, 



the abdomen dusky, and the tail black, with a ferruginous 



tip. 



Columba maculata. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 605. 43. — Gmel. Syst. 



Nat. 1. 'JQO.—Temm. Pig. 405. [Ind.) 

 Spotted Green Pigeon. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 642. 37. 



The Spotted Green Pigeon of Latham is in 

 length twelve inches : its beak is black, tipped with 

 pale yellow : the prevailing colour of the plumage 

 is dark glossy green ; the head and neck are 

 darkest, and of a plain colour : the feathers of the 

 latter are long and narrow, like a cock's hackles : 

 each feather of the wings and scapulars is tipped 

 with a spot of pale cinereous white, with a point 

 running upwards in a triangular position : the 

 quills and tail are black ; the feathers of the first 

 tipped with greyish white, and those of the last 

 with ferruginous white; the tail is even at the 

 end : the belly, thighs, and vent, are dusky black : 

 the legs are brown: the tarsi covered halfway 

 Math downy feathers : claws black. 



