SOUTHERN VINAGO. 



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are black, the latter edged with yellowish : the 

 belly is grey-brown : the abdomen and towards 

 the thighs yellowish : the under tail-coverts red : 

 the tail-feathers, fourteen in number, grey-brown 

 at their base, then black, and tipped with bright 

 grey ; the two middle ones being entirely of the 

 latter colour : the legs are fine red : the iris is 

 composed of two circles, the outer red, the inner 

 blue : the female is destitute of the lilac and 

 yellow-orange on the breast, this part as well as 

 the whole of the lower parts of the body being of 

 a bright greenish -yellow : the head and the hinder 

 part of the neck are of a grey-blue : in other 

 respects similar to the male. 



Inhabits the islands of Lu«^on and Antigua, and 

 is said to be found at certain seasons in Java. 



SOUTHERN VINAGO. 

 (Vinago australis.) 



Vi. viridiSjCrisso Jemoribusque maculatis, humeris violaceis, remi- 

 gibus nigris, secundariis ad apicem flavo-marginatis, Cauda grised 

 ad apicem pallidiore. 



Green Vinago, with the vent and thighs spotted 5 the shoulders 

 violet; the quills black, the secondaries towards their tips 

 edged with yellow 3 the tail grey, with the tip pale. 



Columba Australis. Lin?i, Maret. 1771. p. 526. — Gmel, Syst, 

 Nat. 1. 77g.-^Lath. Lid. Orn, 2 604. Al.—Temm. Hist. Nat. 

 des Pig. Ind. p. 440. 



