664 P I G E O N .
Peu ale.
whitilh at the end, with a black fpot between the two colours i
beneath, the two middle feathers are the fame as above s the two
next, on each fide, have the bafe half black, the end half alh-
colotired ; and the reft the fame, but the end half white : the
legs are red : the claws black.
T he female differs from the male in wanting the gloffy violet-
P lace.
colour on the breaft.
Inhabits Carolina, Braftl, St. Domingo, and other places. In
the firft they are found throughout the whole year; and in confe-
quence breed there.
M ARG6IN3-A TED
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Columba marginata, Lin. Syjt. i. p. 286. N° 40-
La Tourterelle d’Amérique, Brif. orn, i. p. 101. 13.—Buf. oif. it. p. 552.
Long-tailed Dove, Ed<w. pi. IJ.
D escr ip t ion . r p H I S is the fize of the Common Turtle : the length is eleven
inches. T he bill is horn-colour, darkeft at the tip, and
eight lines in length : irides of a dull rufous : from the corners
o f the mouth to the eyes is a white ftreak : the fore part o f the
head, and throat, are rufous brown ; the hind head blueifli alh-
colour ; between thefe two colours, under the ears, is a black
fpot as big as a Tare : the hind part of the neck, the back, fca-
pulars, and wing coverts, are o f a dull brown ; but the fcapu-
lars, and greater coverts neareft the body, are marked with oval
black fpots o f different fizes : the lower part o f the back, the
rump, and upper tail coverts, incline to alh-colour : the fore
part o f the neck and breaft are o f a rofe-colour, growing paler
by degrees as it approaches the fides : the belly, thighs, and
under tail coverts, are brown, mixed with alh-colour : quills
deep brown, with the outer edges rufous : tail feathers o f unequal
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equal lengths; the two middle are blackilh; the others are alh-
eolour, with white tips * ; between which two colours is a band
of black the legs are red :the claws black.
This fpecies inhabits America. That from which Edwards Placed
took his defcription. came from the Weft Indies.
Columba Amboinenfis, Lin. Syjl. i.. p. 286. N° 38. 64..'
La Tourterelle d’Amboine, Brif. orn. i. p. 127. N° 26. pi. 9. f. 3. AMBOINAT.-
Buf. oif. ii. p. 557.
*T* H I S equals the Common Turtle in fize : the length fourteen
inches, of which the tail alone is eight inches. The bill is'
ten lines Pong, and red : the head, neck, bread, belly, fides,
thighs, and under tail, coverts, rufous: thé feathers on the top o f
the head, the neci, and bread, have each of them a blackilh
tranfverfe band near the tip : the upper part of the back, and
wing coverts, are deep brown, tipped with rufous : the lower
part of thëbaek, the rump, and upper tail coverts, rufous:
quills , deep brown : the tail yery unequal, the outer feathers
being very fhort, and' wholly of a rufous brown colour: legs red r
claws brown.
The female is much of the fame colour, but not fo bright as
the male.
This fpecies inhabits the ifland of Amboinat
D e s c r i p t i o n ,
Female.-
Place.
* Linnaus,.
Vot. O. 4 Q_ Columba
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