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neck yellow ; the tips of the feathers of the latter 

 red, which colour is separated from the upper part 

 of the neck by a longitudinal band of blue : the 

 hind part of the head, the upper part of the neck, 

 the back, the rump, and upper tail-coverts, are 

 brown, transversely striped with slender black 

 arched bands : the breast, belly, sides, and thighs, 

 are rose-coloured : the lesser wing-coverts are pale 

 brown, varied with a black and white transverse 

 mark near the tip of each feather : the other co- 

 verts are black, with white tips : quilk black, with 

 white edges : the tail of a palish brown : the legs 

 red, and the claws white. 



geoffroy's pigeon. 



(Columba Geoffroii») 



Co. cano'-albay iji carpo alcB quinque aut sex maculis violaceis 



viridi'fiitentibus, aliisqjie septem aut octo maculis fuscis in 



alarum extremo remigibus nigrescente-Juscis, 

 Hoary white ; in the bend of the wing five or six violaceous spots 



glossed with green, and seven or eight brown ones at the tip 



of the wing ; the quills of a dusky brown. 

 Columba GeofFroii. Temm. Fig. Ind. 476. 

 Colombe Geoffroy. Temm, Pig. {Svo.) p, 297. 



Eight inches in length : the whole of the head 

 and under part of the neck is of a greyish white 

 hue : the rest of the body is of a greyish hue : the 



