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ABYSSINIAN VINAGO. 
Length about eleven and a half inches. Outer 
half of the hill bluish-white ; basal half, in the dead 
bird, bluish-black. The whole of the head, neck, 
and throat, as far as the breast, uniform light grey, 
tinged with a greenish hue; the remaining upper 
parts of the plumage, as the back, scapulars, tertials, 
and tail-covers, light olive-green, which colour tinges 
such of the greater wing-covers as are nearest the 
body. The lesser wing-covers are vinaceous-red*, 
deepest at the angle of the shoulder, and which 
blends into the greenish-grey of the lesser wing- 
covers ; greater covers and quills, blackish ; both 
the series of covers and the terminal half of the 
lesser quills are broadly and distinctly edged with 
sulphur-yellow, which edging is narrower and al- 
most white on the primaries. Tail even; above 
light cinereous ; beneath with the basal half black 
and the outer half cinereous-white. The under 
plumage from the breast downwards is yellow, the 
flanks greenish grey; the thighs, vent, and side 
tail-covers being whitish ; under tail-covers rufous 
in the middle ; feet apparently red, the tarsal fea- 
thers reaching to the base of the toes. 
Total length about 12 inches; bill, from the 
gape, 1, from the front, ; wings, 7; tail, from 
the base, 4J ; tarsus, T 7 5 . 
* That is, something like the colour of the lees of old 
wine, a tint almost exclusively found in the pigeon family. 
