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CHESNUT-SHOULDERED PIGEON. 

 (Columba spadicea.) 



Co. capite colloque viridi-aureis ruhentibus, humeris spadiceis, 



dorso alisque ccErulescentibuSj abdomine albo. 

 Pigeon with the head and neck of a reddish green golden colour, 



the shoulders chesnut, the back and wings bluish, and the 



abdomen white. 



Columba spadicea. Lath. Ind. Orn, Sup. IX. 7. — Temm. Pig. 



Ind. p. 444. 

 Colombe geant. Temni. Pig. {8vo.) p. 74. 

 Chesnut-shouldered Pigeon. Lath. Gen. Syn. Sup, II. Add, 



p. 375. 



This fine species inhabits Norfolk Island, and 

 other parts of the southern Archipelago : it is very 

 remarkable for the size of its tail, which is slightly 

 forked, the outer feathers being two lines longer 

 than the intermediate. According to Temminck's 

 account of this splendid species, it measures from 

 the tip of the beak to the end of the tail about 

 nineteen inches, the latter being about seven and 

 a half, and is composed of twelve feathers ; its 

 upper part is of a deep brown, reflecting rich 

 green and purple tints ; its extremity is of an 

 ochre colour ; the under part of the tail is of a 

 greyish-white, changing to a metallic green, and 

 towards its extremity it is of a deep brown : the 

 wings, which reach about half-way towards the 

 extremity of the tail, have their greater quills of 

 a deep reddish-white colour, reflecting a brilliant 



