GREEN WINGED PIGEON. 
COLUMBA INDICA. 
Le Pigeon ramier d’Am 
BOINE. 
Green-winged Dove. 
Lin. Sj/st. i. p. 284. No. 29 . 
Briss. Orn. i. p . 150 . No. 4 2. pi. 
15. fig. 1. 
F.diu.i. pi . 14. 
The Pigeon, from having a very powerful wing and a well supported 
flight, can easily perform very distant journies. It is, therefore, more 
generally dispersed than any other species ; for most of our wild and tame 
sorts are to be met with in every climate ; and they are so little affected 
either by heat or cold, that the wild Pigeon is diffused through the whole 
extent of both Continents. 
A pair of these very beautiful birds were for some time preserved in 
this Menagery. They are natives of Amboyna, an island in the East 
Indies, the chief of the Moluccas ; and are about the size of the Turtle, 
though different in the distribution of its coloursi which may be attributed 
to the effect of a hot climate. 
The Count de Buffon seems to consider it as a variety of the European 
Pigeon, which is found in Mexico, Martinico, Cayenne, Carolina, and 
Jamaica; that is, in all the warmer, and temperate climates of the West 
Indies ; and in the East, from Amboyna to the Philippines. 
