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Title: A general history of birds
Year: 1821 (1820s)
Authors: Latham, John, 1740-1837
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: Winchester (Eng.) Printed by Jacob and Johnson, for the author sold in London by G. and W.B. Whittaker (etc.)
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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emtn. Pig.fol. pi. IG.^Male. Id. 8vo. i. p. 214.Triangular spotted Pigeon, Gen. Syn. iv. 639. Edw. pi. 75. SIZE of the Wood Pigeon; length twelve inches and a halfBill blackish; eye surrounded by a red skin ; irides bright yellow •head, neck, and under parts pale ash-colour, with vinaceous margins ;upper parts of the back, purplish brown, glossed with violet; wingcoverts, and lesser quills the same, but each feather tipped with atriangular white spot, the point upwards; the greater quills black,edged with grey; lower part of the back and rump white; tail dullash-colour, tipped with black; legs pale red, claws brown. In thefemale the colours are more dull. Inhabits Guinea, in the southern parts; the rocky parts of Africa;and common about the Cape of Good Hope; there called Bosch-Duyf and Wilde Duyf, every where common, both at the Cape itselfand the interior; chiefly where wheat or barley grows, which theyoften attack in large flocks ; roost at night in woods, or among the PL. CXVIl.
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,•0 //f/^//^r^/ f//ff-// ^/^*i^ii^ PIGEON. 23 rocks, in both which they build their nest, and lay two white eggs.In one of these, brought into England by Mr. Salt, the lower partof the back and rump, as well as the upper tail coverts, are very paleash-colour; belly and vent much the same. It is the commondomestic Pigeon of Abyssinia ; hundreds are seen round the house ofevery chief, and being well fed, afford an excellent meal. TheAbyssinians do not object to eating them. They are not apt to varyin plumage. 11.—SPOTTED GREEN PIGEON.—Pl. cxvii. Columba maculata, Ind. Orn. ii. 605. Gm. Lin. i. 780. Temm. Pig. 8vo. i. p. 465.Spotted green Pigeon, Gen. Si/n. iv. 642. LENGTH twelve inches. Bill black, tip pale yellow; roundthe eye somewhat naked; general colour of the plumage dark glossygreen ; head and neck darker than the rest; the feathers of the necklonger than the others, and pointed, like the hackles of a Cock; wing-coverts and scapulars each tipped with a cinereous white spot,

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