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COLUMBA PASSERINA. 
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 hind 
head; the throat is speckled with dull white, pale 
day colour, and dusky ; sides of the neck, the same, 
the plumage strongly defined ; breast, cinereous brown, 
slightly tinctured with purple ; scapulars, marked with 
large drops of a dark purplish blood colour, reflecting 
tints of blue ; rest of the plumage, nearly the same as 
that of the male. 
