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WHITE-WHISKERED PIGEON. 



Nearly nine inches in length : the head of a 

 pale bluish-ash colour ; the back part of it black j 

 the chin and throat of a fine deep yellow : neck, 

 and the prevailing colour of the body, fine deep 

 green : vent orange-yellow : some of the feathers 

 on the outside of the thighs tipped with the same: 

 inside of them white : the tail equal ; its six mid- 

 dle feathers green ; the rest whitish at their tips : 

 the coverts, with the exterior feathers, deep crim- 

 son : the tarsi covered with green feathers : the 

 beak is of a horn colour : the feet are of a red- 

 dish-brown j and the irides of a brownish-red. It 

 is found in Java : inhabits the great woods. 



WHITE-WHISKERED PIGEON. 

 (Columba Mystacea.) 



Co. gula maculaque transversa infra oculos albis, collo antice 

 cerviceque viridi et violaceo nitentibus, pectore ventreque vinaceis, 

 dorso tectricibusque alarum fuscis^ remigibus rufis. 



Pigeon with the throat and transverse spot beneath the eyes 

 white ; the anterior part of the neck and the cervix green, 

 shining with violet j the breast and belly vinaceous j the back 

 and wing-coverts brown ; the quills rufous. 



Columba mystacea. Temm. Pig. Ind. 473. 



Colombe a moustaches blanches. Temm, Pig. (8vo.) p. 275. 



Eleven inches and a half in length: this is 

 well distinguished by a broad band of white, which 



