PURPLE VINAGO. 



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Green Vinago, with the vent brown 3 the two middle tail- 

 feathers green, the rest cinereous tipped with white ; between, 

 these colours is a transverse black stripe j the quills and 

 secondary feathers black, towards their tips margined with 

 yellow. 



Columba Psittacea. Temm. Pig, et Gall. Ind, p, 440. 

 Columbar unicolor. Temm. Fig. 8fC. %vo. p. 47- 



Native of Timor and Java : length ten inches : 

 the head, the neck, and the whole of the under 

 parts of the body, as well as the back and the 

 wing-coverts, are of a clear green ; the great and 

 middle feathers of the wings are black, and the 

 latter are fringed with deep yellow : the tail 

 is of a deep grey at its base, black towards the 

 middle, and the rest of its length white ; the 

 two middle feathers are entirely green, as are 

 the inner webs of the one on each side the latter : 

 the under-coverts are green, with the extremities 

 of the feathers white : the beak is of a horn-colour ; 

 the naked skin at its base reddish : the feet are of 

 a dusky blue, and the claws brown* 



PURPLE VINAGO. 



(Vinago vernans.) 



Vi. viridis, pectore lunulis duabus, superiore violacea, inferiore 

 lutea, tecfricibus alarum flavo-terminatis, cauddcano-albescettte, 

 cam-terminate, Femina, viridi-grisescensy subtus viridi fla- 

 vicans, 



V. XI. p. I. 8 



