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BLUE AND GREEN TURTELINE 
Ptilinopus cyano-virens Lesson. 
PLATE V. 
Columba cyano-virens, Lesson, Vog. de la Coquille, pi. 42, 
M. and F Id. Man. d'Ornlth. ii. 169. 
This species, which vies in beauty of plumage 
with the preceding, is a native of New Guinea, wliere 
it dwells in the evergreen forests of these equatorial 
regions, and where, from the frequent low cooings 
which were heard by the crew of the Coquille, 
when on a voyage of discovery to these parts, it ap- 
pears to be very abundant. Its total length barely 
exceeds eight inches. The bill is slender, the basal 
part black, the tip or horn of a light grey. The 
siiles are reddish-brown. The tarsi are short and fea- 
thered nearly to the toes, wliich are of a rich orange 
yellow, and their structure similar to those of the 
P. purpuratus. The upper part of the body, wings, 
tail, lower breast, and sides, are bright grass green. 
Upon the occiput is a large spot or bar of indigo 
blue, which colour also occupies the shaft or central 
part of the scapulars, and some of the lesser wing- 
