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PURPLE-CROWNED PIGEON. 



Nearly eight inches in length : the beak is red : 

 the fore-part of the head and the throat are ash- 

 coloured : the hind-part of the head and neck, the 

 back, rump, upper tail and wing-coverts, breast, 

 belly, sides and thighs, green-gold, with a coppery 

 gloss : the fore-part of the neck a brilliant violet 

 purple : the greater wing-coverts above have the 

 outer edges at the tip brimstone ; the under wing- 

 coverts ash-colour : the quills are blackish, with 

 their outer edges and tips of the same colour as 

 the body: the tail is blue-green, glossed with 

 copper; the two middle feathers are plain, and 

 incline to dusky on the inner webs ; the others 

 are all tipped with brimstone-colour : beneath they 

 all appear blackish, with the tips of a dirty white ; 

 and the under tail-coverts of a greenish white : the 

 legs are red, and half covered with feathers ; the 

 claws grey-brown. Inhabits the island of Amboina. 



PURPLE-CROWNED PIGEQN. 

 (Golumba purpurata.) 



Co. viridis, fronte purpurascente, capite collogue cinereo-albis, 



crisso JiavOy apice caudce mrescente, remigibus nigris. 

 Green Pigeon, with the forehead purple, the head and neck 



greyish white, the vent yellow, the tip of the tail greenish, 



and the quills black. 

 Columba purpurata, Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 784. 64. — Lath» Ind, 



Orn, 2. 598. 17. — Temm, Pig, Ind, 474. 



