70 WHITE PIGEON. 



tail is of a whitish blue, and more clear than the 

 head : the upper parts of the shoulders are orna- 

 mented with five or six violet-black spots, which 

 change to green in various positions : the greater 

 wing-coverts are marked with seven or eight simi- 

 lar spots, of which three are of the colour of the 

 rest of the wing, and the other five of a tobacco 

 colour ; each spot is bordered with a transverse 

 black line : the quills are of a dusky brown, as is 

 the beak : the feet are red. Inhabits Bengal. 

 Named by Temminck after Geoffroy St. Hillaire. 



WHITE PIGEON. 



(Columba alba.) 



Co. corpore albo, cauda brevL 

 Pigeon with a white body and short tail. 

 Columba alba. Temm, Pig, Ind. p, 484. 

 Colombe blanche. Temm. Pig. (8vo.)/>. 333. 



This greatly resembles the white variety of C. 

 risoria, but it is much less than that bird, and its 

 tail is considerably shorter; the wings are also 

 longer in proportion : the whole of the plumage is 

 of a pure milk-white colour : the feet are red : 

 irides the same ; and the beak is of a dusky red : 

 originally a native of China, but now domesticated 

 in many parts of Europe. 



