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PHEASANT-TAILED PIGEON. 
Columba phasianella. — Temm. 
PLATE VTII. 
Columba phasianella, Temm. PI. Col. 1. 100 Id. in Tram. 
of Linn. Soc. v. 13, p. 129 — Columba Amboinensis, Auol. 
Juv, 
The group or genus to which this species belongs 
is distributed throughout the Isles of Sonda, the Mo- 
luccas, the Philippines, and Java, and is also met with 
in Australia ; and, besides the present species, con- 
tains the Col. macroura of authors, the Col. nuchali 
of Wagler, and the Col. Reinwartii of Temminck. 
Of its precise station in the circle of the Colum- 
bidae, we speak with some degree of doubt, not 
having had an opportunity of instituting so strict an 
analysis of the species as the subject requires, but 
we believe it will be found to enter among the Ptili- 
nopinsB or Arboreal Pigeons, as the feet and tarsi of 
its members are similar in form to those of that di- 
vision, the latter being very short and partly plumed 
below the joint, the fonner with the exterior toe 
longer than the inner, and the hinder toe fully deve- 
