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The Wood-Pigeoni Oenas;
Numb. XLVI.
T T is bigger than the common Pigeon; its Weight was- fourteen Ounces
and a half; its Length from, the Tip of the Bill to the End of the
Tail, was fourteen Inches long; and the Breadth, when the Wings
were extended, was twenty fix Inches: the Colour and Shape of the
Body are like that of the common Pigeon; the Bill alfo a like, and of
equal Length, of a pale red Colour; the Noftrils were great and prominent;
the Top of the Head cinereous; the Neck covered with changeable
Feathers, which as they are varioufly objected to the Light, appear
of a purple or ihining green, no Silk like them; the fore Part of the
Breaft, the Shoulders and Wings are daihed with a purpliih or red-wine
Colour, whence it took the Name [Oenas.) The Wings, Shoulders,
and middle of, the Back are of a dark Aih-colour; the reft of the Back
to the Tail of a paler; all the quill Feathers (except the. four or five
outmoft, which are all over black with their Edges white) have their
lower Part cinereous, and their upper Part black; the Tail is five Inches
long made up of twelve Feathers, having their lower Part cinereous,
their upper, for one third of their Length, black; the nether Side of
the Body, excepting the upper Part of the Breaft, is all cinereous j the
Wings ciofed reach not to the End of the T a i l ; in both Wings are
two black Spots, the one upon two or three quill Feathers next the
Body, the other upon two or three of the covert Feathers incumbent
upon thofe Quills, both Spots are on the out Side of the Shafts, and
not far from the Tips of the Feathers; the two outmoft Feathers of
the Tail have the lower half of their exteriour Veins white.
The Feet are red, the Claws black; the Legs feathered down a little
below the Knees; the blind Guts very ihort: it had no Gall-Bladder
to be found; it had a large Craw full of Acorns and other Grains: It
had a mufculous Stomach, long Tefticles, and a long Breaft-bone.
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