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MARTINICO PIGEON. 



body ash- coloured ; the intermediate tail-feathers brown, the 

 rest tipped with black, the tip itself white. Male, with blue 

 shining golden feathers under the aperture of the ears. 

 Columba aurita. Temm. Pig. Ind, 467, 



Columba leucoptera. Linn. St/st. Nat, 1. 617.— Gwe/. Syst, Nat. 



1. 773.'-Lat/i. Ind. Orn. 2. 595. 6. 

 Columba Martinicana. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 5g5. 7. a.^Briss. Orn. 



1. 104. 14. 

 Columba Indica. Briss. Orn. I. 105. 

 Turtur auritus. Rati. Syn, p. 184. 



Le Pigeon brun tachetee. D'Azara. Voy. Amer. merid, 4. 132. 

 322. 



Colombe a Oreillon bleu. Temm. Pig. {8vo.) p. 247- 

 Brown Indian Dove. Edw. Birds, p. 76. 

 White- winged Pigeon. Lath. Gen. Sj/n. 4. 6l7» 6. 

 Martinico Pigeon. Lath, Gen, Syn. 4. 6I8. 7. 



Found in Martinique, and other of the West 

 Indian islands, also on the South American con- 

 tinent. Length ten inches : the head, the throat, 

 the neck, and the breast are chesnut varied with 

 purple ; the feathers surrounding the lower part 

 of the neck have a gilded violet gloss, and form a 

 sort of collar: the male has eight or ten blue 

 golden glossed feathers on each side the head 

 above the ears, which form a conspicuous cha- 

 racter : the back, the rump, the wing-coverts, and 

 the upper parts of the tail are of a brown, varied 

 with red, with several black spots on the greater 

 wing-coverts nearest the body : the belly, the 

 thighs, and the under tail-coverts light fulvous, 

 with a vinaceous tinge : the greater quills of the 

 wings are dusky, with their outer margins whitish : 

 the secondaries are of a brown-black, with grey- 

 ish-white tips : the two intermediate tail-feathers 



