AFRICAN PIGEON. 



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orange : and the feet are bright red. The female 

 is rather less than the male, and the colours are 

 not so vivid. 



Inhabits the south-west coast of Africa, from 

 the Camis mountains to the Grand Namaquois, 

 on the borders of Hausi, and is amazingly abundant 

 on the Grand River, the Orange, and other rivers : 

 its nest is constructed in trees : the female lays 

 two white eggs. 



AFRICAN PIGEON. 



(Columba Afra.) 



Co. griseojusca, subtus albida, maculis tectricum alarum violaceo- 

 axureis, rectricibus extimis basi exteriore maculaque apicis 

 albis. 



Grey-brown Pigeon, beneath whitish, with the wing-coverts 

 with violaceous blue spots, the lateral tail-feathers at the base 

 on the outside, and a spot at their tips, white. 



Columba Afra. Linn. Syst.Nat. 1. 214. — Gmel. Syst. Nat, I. 

 706. p. 31.— Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 6h. (jA.-^Temm, Pig. huL 

 476. 



Turtur senegalensis. Briss, Orn. 1. 122. t. 10. f. 1. 

 Tourterelle du Senegal. Buff. Ois. 2. 553. --By f. PL EnL 1 60. 

 Tourterelle Emeraudine. Le Vaill. Ois. d'Afriq. 6. pL 27 1, 

 Colombe Emeraudine. Temm. Pig. (8w.) p. 29 1. 

 African Turtle. Lath. Gen. Si/n. 4. 656. 55. 



Less than the Turtle Dove : length eight inches : 

 the beak reddish : the top of the head ash-coloured: 

 V. XI. p. I. 6 



