Place.
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REDCROWNED
P.
D e s c r i p t i o n .
Place.
ifr.
PURPLE P.
D e s c r i p t i o n .
P l a c e .
Inhabits the ifland of Java: feeds, when at large, on the berries
of the Rum-pooni; but will alfo live on boiled Rice and
Paddd.
Le Pigeon violet à tête rouge d’Antigue, Sen, Voy. p. u z . t. 67.
§ I Z E of the Jacobin Pigeon. The bill is grey j from the
bale of the upper mandible Î9 a flelhy membrane of a bright
red colour, which wholly encircles the eyes : the irides have two
circles,, a large one of red, and a leffer one of grey colour : the
top of the head is covered with flender feathers of a fine red
colour, forming a kind of hood : the neck, upper parts of the
back, and breaft, blueilh grey, paleft on- the breaft : the reft of
the body, and tail, of a velvety black, changing into both violet
and blue in different refleftions of light : the legs grey.
This was found at Antigue, in the Ifle of Panay, by Mr. Sonnerai.
Purple Pigeon, Brown* III. p. 42. pi. i8>.
C I Z E of the Englijh JVood Pigeon. Front pale green head'
and neck fine light purple : breaft orange : back, fcapulars,
and belly,, light green : ventfcarlet: quills dufky.
Inhabits the ifland. of Java, where it is called Jooan, from
Joo, which lignifies- green in the Javan, and Malayan languages
*.
* Mr. Loten mentions, that he has known more than eighteen or twenty
fpecies of Wood Pigeons on the iilands of Java, Celebes, and Ceylon ; fome as
big as a /mail Hen, of a beautiful white, with black wings and tail ; fome blueilh
green ; fome entirely of a dark beautiful red,.between fcarlet and carmine ; and
fome alfo like our European 7*'srtlês.
LENGTH.
£9*
. PURPLEBREASTED
P.
T E N G T H fourteen inches. Bill black : fides of the head. Description.
beneath the eyes dulky: the forehead, throat, and fore
part of the neck,, of a pale rufous, or rather vinaceous colour :
the crown, and hind part of the neck, dufky brown, with a
greenifh tinge on the firft: fides of the neck red brown, changing
into-a gloffy purple or lake-colour as it advances downwards,
uniting on both fides to form a bar of the fame colour on the
breaft t the wing coverts are of the fame beautiful purple red as
the bar on the breaft: the quills are dufky : above the purple
bar on the breaft is a tranfverfe band of white : the belly dufky :.
the legs are red, an inch and a half in length: claws black.
Inhabits the ifland of Eimeo.. Place.
Columba vernans, Lin. Mantijf. 1771. p. 526;
Le Pigeon verd des Philippines, ' BriJ. ora. i. p. 143. N° 38'. pi. 11. f. 2.__
Buf. oij. ii. p. 528.— PI. enl. 138.
Parrot Dove, Rati Syn. p. 196. N° 13. pi. 2. N-° 1 j . .
lie. Pigeon verd mâle des files de Luçon. & d’Antigue, Son. fry , p. no;,
t. &{.;
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PARROT P.
T h e M a l e .
gOM EW H A T bigger than the ffurtle: length nine inches D e s c r i p t io n.
and a half. The bill is three quarters of an inch, and
blackilh, with a yellowifh tip : the head and throat are dull olive
green : irides compofed of t.wo circles; the outer red, the inner
blue: neck pale chefnut,. inclining to vinaceous : back, rump,
fides, and upper tail coverts, olive green: wing coverts the
fame; but the greater ones are tipped with brimftone, making a
fpot on the wing: the breaft is orange:, belly and thighs pale
olive
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