122 



B, Head not crested. 

 * With a caruncle at the base of the beak* 



NICOBAR GOURA. 

 (Goiira Nicobarica.) 



Go. corpore (Eneo, pennis colli angustis ehngaiis, remigihus e£ 



ccerulescente viridibus, caudd alba, basi rostri carunculd com- 



pressd, (Femina^ caret caruncula in fronte.) 

 Goura with a brassy body, the feathers on the neck narrow and 



elongated, the quills of a green- blue, the tail white, the base 



of the beak with a compressed caruncle. {Female without 



the frontal caruncle.) 

 Columba Nicobarica. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 605. 44. — Gmel. 



Syst. Nat. 1. 783. ly.—Temm. Pig. Ind. p. A45.—Briss. Orn. 



1. 153. 44, 



Pigeon de Nicobar. Buff". Ois. 2. 541. — Biiff, PI. EnL 4gi. 

 Colombi-Galline a camail. Temm. Pig. (Svo.) p. 385. — Le 



Vaill. Ois. d'Afriq. 6.pl. 279. 

 Nicobar Pigeon. Edwards, pi. 339. — Albin. 3. pi, 4/ and 



-—Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 642. 38. 



Beak dusky : i rides hazel : the head, neck, 

 breast, belly, thighs, and under tail- coverts of 

 a dark bluish purple : the feathers on the neck 

 are very long and pointed, reflecting rich hues of 

 blu€, red, gold, and copper : at the base of the 

 beak is a depressed caruncle : the back, and 

 upper parts of the wings, rich green, changing to 

 copper and gold ; some of the outer quills, and 

 the coverts above them, bright blue : the tail and 

 upper coverts white : legs reddish : the female 



