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RUFOUS-WINGED TURTLE. 
white ; bill and legs dark ; tail broad, and much 
rounded. 
Total length, 7 inches ; bill, from the front, T 6 5 ; 
wings, 4 ; tail beyond, 1 ; ditto from the base, ; 
tarsus, ^ ; hind toe and claw the same. 
TRIANGULAR-SPOTTED PIGEON. 
Columba trigonigera , Wagler. 
Head and body beneath plumbeus ; wings and throat vinn- 
eeous, with numerous triangular white spots ; feathers of 
tlio neck and breast vinaceous and bifid, and tipt witli 
whitish. 
Triangular-spotted Pigeon, Edwards, pi. 75. — Le Rainier rous- 
sard, Le Vail/. Ois. d'Af iv. pi. 2G5. — Columba Guinea, 
A uctorum . — Columba trigonigera, Wag. Sgst. Avium, No. 51. 
Nothing can be said in commendation of the plu- 
mage of this singularly marked species, the colour- 
ing of which is neither attractive to the ordinary 
observer or inviting to the artist. It is of a 
middling size, and seems to be abundantly distri- 
buted over various parts of Africa, as Senegal, 
Guinea, Angola, and the Cape of Good Hope. At 
the latter place, according to Le "Vaillant, it is called, 
by the colonist, Bosch or Wild Dur/f (wood or wild 
dove.) It is very abundant both in the vicinity of 
Cape Town and in the interior, where it is one of the 
greatest pests the farmers have to contend against. 
