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MAUGEIAN PIGEON. 



ash- colour : the tail-feathers are of very unequal 

 lengths ; the two middle ones are longest, and the 

 others gradually shorter, till the most outward 

 ones do not exceed above half the length of the 

 central ones, which are of a grey-brown, marked 

 with black about their middle, and bright grey 

 towards their tip : the three lateral ones are grey 

 from their origin to theirmiddle ; the rest are black: 

 the eyes are situated in a naked space : the irides 

 are brown : the beak is horn-coloured ; and the 

 legs reddish. 



The female is smaller than the male, and does 

 not possess the black violaceous spot beneath the 

 ears : the feathers on the sides and the base of the 

 neck do not reflect the golden hues : the fore-part 

 of the neck and the breast are of a grey-brown, 

 which colour also predominates over nearly the 

 whole of the under parts of the bird. 



Found in Carolina, Brasil, Porto Rico, and St. 

 Domingo ; in the former place they occur at all 

 seasons. 



MAUGEIAN PIGEON. 



(Columba Maugei.) 



Co. Jronte guldque nigricantibuSj collo pectore hypochondriisqm 

 alio nigroque undulatis, 7'ectricibus duabus intermediis Juscis 

 reliquis nigris, versus apicem albis. 



