INDIAN PIGEON. 



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are of the same colour as the middle of the back ; 

 the others brown for two-thirds of their length, 

 with the outer margins rufous, the inner deep ash, 

 the rest of their length black, with grey tips : the 

 exterior feather is grey on the outside the whole 

 length ; the beak and the claws are black : the 

 feet red. 



It varies in having caerulean spots on the wings 

 of a golden hue, and in the secondary quills being 

 terminated with white. 



INDIAN PIGEON. 

 (Columba Asiatica.) 



Co. cinereo-viridisy capite cinereo, maculd alarum corporeque subtus 

 albis, remigibus nigris albo extus marginatis. 



Brown-green Pigeon, with the head ash-coloured, a spot on the 

 wings and the body beneath white, the quills black, exter- 

 nally bordered with white. 



Columba Asiatica. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 597. 14. — Temrn, Pig. 

 Ind. 467. 



Indian Pigeon. Lath. Syn. Sup. 202. 60. y, 



" Length eleven inches : beak bluish at the base ; 

 towards the tip white : head ash colour : neck 

 pale yellowish-green ; lower part of the neck all 

 round, the middle of the wing near the shoulders, 

 and all the under parts, white : the whole of the 



