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PICUI GOURA, 

 (Goura Picui.) 



Go, corpore subtus albescente-Jusco, supra Jusco, tectricibus ah" 

 rum maculis cceruleis 7iigris albisque notatis, pennd caudce ex- 

 teriore alba, tribus sequentibus Juscis albo-terminatis ; alis intus 

 nigris, 



Goura with the upper parts of the body of a whitish brown, the 

 under brown ; the wing-coverts with blue spots, sprinkled 

 with black and white ; the outer tail-feather white, the three 

 following ones brown, tipped with white 5 the wings beneath 

 black. 



Columba Picui. Temm. Pig, Ind, p. 498. 



Le Picui, D'Azara Voy. Amer. merid, 4. 136. no, 324. 



Colombi-Galline Picui. Temm, Pig, {Qvo.) p. 435. 



Seven inches and one third in length : it has a 

 naked space round the eyes, extending to the 

 base of the beak : the under parts of the body are 

 white, with a tint of brown on the front of the 

 neck, and on the sides of the body, and one of 

 vinaceous on the breast : the under part of the 

 wings are of a fine velvety black : the forehead 

 and the sides of the head are whitish : the upper 

 part of the head, the neck, and the body, as well 

 as the upper wing-coverts, are of a pure brown, 

 sprinkled with small bluish enamelled spots, in- 

 terspersed with black and white ones : the quills 

 are dusky brown : the outer feather of the tail is 

 white on its outer web ; the second, third, and 

 fourth, are of that colour to the end j the others 



