COLUMBA PASSERINA. 
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ones, cinereous brown, the rest, black, tipt and edged 
with white ; legs and feet, yellow. 
The female has the back and tail-coverts of a mouse 
colour, with little or none of the vinaceous tint on the 
breast and throat, nor any of the light blue on the hiu® 
head; the throat is speckled with dull white, pal* 
clay colour, and dusky ; sides of the neck, the saio*» 
tlie plumage strongly defined ; breast, cinereous browBj 
slightly tinctured with purple ; scapulars, marked >vith , 
large drops of a dark purplish blood colour, reflectiu? 
tints of blue ; rest of the plumage, nearly the same a* 
that of the male. 
