NICOBAR PIGEON. 
This beautiful bird is the Columba Nicoba- 
rica, of Linnaeus, Gmelin, and Klein ; and the 
Nicobar Pigeon, of Edwards, Latham, and 
otiier naturalists. 
According to Edwards, whose exquisite 
figure we have adopted, the Nicobar Pigeon 
appears to be about the size of a Common 
Pio;eon. 
" The bill is of a blackish or dusky colour: 
the upper mandible a little overhangs the lower ; 
and a rising is seen over the nostrils, as in most 
Pigeons, The eyes are hazel-coloured, with 
black pupils. The head, neck, breast, belly, 
thighs, and covert-feathers beneath the tail, 
are all of a dark blueish purple. The feathers 
on the neck are long and pointed, lilic those 
on the Domestic Cock, rcflci5ling exceedingly 
fine changeable glosses of blue, red, gcid, and 
copper colours. The back, and upper side of 
the wings, are gieen, changing co copper and 
gold. 
