AROMATIC VINAGO. 



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Yellow-faced Pigeon. Brown. III. Zool. pi. 20. — Lath. Gen. 

 Syn. 4. 632. 23. 



Var. £. Capite, collo pectoreque luteis, ve?itre cano, cauda vires- 

 cente. 



With the head, neck and breast yellow, the belly hoary, and the 

 tail greenish. 



Columba aromatica. mr. d. Temm. Pig. Ind. p. 442. 



The Aromatic Vinago is about nine inches and 

 a half in length : the top of the head, as far as 

 the occiput, is of a greyish ash ; which colour 

 joins a greenish tint on the nape : the neck, the 

 breast, the belly, the thighs and the abdomen are 

 of a dull green ; the feathers of the latter are 

 slightly tipped with white : the small wang-coverts, 

 the scapulars, and the top of the back, are of a 

 brown-purple : the middle and greater wing- coverts 

 are of a deep green, with a yellow border on the 

 extremities of the feathers : the middle wing- 

 feathers are edged with yellow, and the greater 

 ones are entirely black : the rump, the two middle 

 tail-feathers, and the inner webs of the two ad- 

 joining ones on each side, are of an olive-green ; 

 the rest of the feathers are grey their whole 

 length : the under part of the tail is black from 

 its base to three-fourths of its length ; the whole 

 of the feathers clear grey at their extremities : 

 irides red : the horny part of the beak is greenish ; 

 the base red ; as are the tarsi and toes. 



The Hook-billed Pigeon of Latham appears to 

 be only a variety of this bird, as supposed by 

 Temniinck : it only differs in the following parti- 

 culars : in the first place, the lateral tail-feathers 



