125 



* * No caruncle at the base of the beak, 



BLUE-HEADED GOURA. 



(Goiira cyanocephala.) 



Go. vinaceo-fusca^ capite gulaque cceruleis, fascia suhocularis 

 alba. 



Vinaceous-brown Goura, with the head and throat blue, and a 



white stripe beneath the eye. 

 Columba cyanocephala. Linn, Syst, Nat, 1. 282. 20. — GmeL 



Si/St. Nat. 1. 778. 20,^Latk. Ind. Orn, 2, 608. 5A.—Temrn. 



Pig. Ind, 491. 

 Turtur Jamaicensis. Briss. Orn, 1. 135. 32. jo/. 13. J'. 1. 

 Tourterelle de la Jamaique. Buf. Ois. 2. 55S.--Buf. PL Enl. 



174. 



Colombi-Galline a cravate noire. Le Vaill, Ois, dH Afrique, v. 



Q.'pl, 281. — Temm. Pig, (8vo.) 39O. 

 Turtle-Dove from Jamaica. Albin. 2. 'pl. 49. 

 Blue-headed Turtle. Lath. Gen, Syn. 4. 651. 45.— Lath, Syn. 



Sup, 200. 45. 



Found throughout the warmer parts of America : 

 length eleven inches: beak red at its base, and 

 grey at its tip : the crown of the head and the 

 throat blue ; the colour passing down the middle 

 of the fore-part of the neck ; beneath this the fea- 

 thers are black, with some of them having a trans- 

 verse stripe of white towards their tips : from the 

 lower jaw to the hind-part of the head, passing 

 beneath the eye, is a white stripe : the hind-part 

 of the neck, back, rump, wing and tail-coverts, 

 vinaceous brown : the fore-part of the neck and 



