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BLUE OR GREEN TURTELINE. 
coverts. The chin is greyish-white, passing into 
greenish-grey towards the breast. The lower part 
of the abdomen and the costal band, are white, the 
feathers margined with pale yellow ; the thighs and 
tarsal feathers are green ; the vent is white, and 
the under tail coverts are yellowish-white, with 
the greater part of the inner webs green. The 
greater quills are brownish-black, with a narrow 
edging of pale yellow, and the wing-coverts and se- 
condaries are also margined with yellow. The fe- 
male is devoid of the blue spot upon the occiput, as 
well as those which ornament the scapular feathers 
of the male. The forehead and chin are grey, and 
the abdomen and vent clothed with feathers of a 
uniform pale-green. In other respects her plumage 
is analogous to that of the male. 
In the description of this bird by M. Lesson, it is 
to be regretted that no notice is taken of the form 
of the first quill-feather, its emargination being an 
essential character of the group. This we the more 
lament, as no opportunity of examining a specimen 
has occurred. We are therefore unable to state posi- 
tively, whether it agrees in this particular with the 
last described kind ; but, judging from analogy, and 
its close resemblance to that species in other respects, 
we entertain little or no douht of its presence in 
nearly a similar form, particularly as it is found de- 
veloped in other species ajtparently further removed 
from Ptilinopus purpuratus, one of which, the Plili- 
nopusporphyrea, is figured in the Planches Coloriees 
