. Musei Leveriani explicatio, anglica et latina . macula au- reo-cuprea Chalcoptcra. » Lath. ind. oni. p. 604. IN pulcherrimis quse a Nova Hollandia haftemis afportatse funt avlbus jurehabeatur Columba Chalcoptera, quae magnitudine fere palumbi asqualiseft, corpore graciliori et elegantiori. Color quoad fuperiora fufco-pallet, tec-tricibus alarum majoribus fingulis macula lata fplendide cuprea infignitisj undeper alam ducuntur totidem ordines metallici nitoris. Variata luce, variant quo-que macule, pulchritudinem avis mirum in modum augentes. Pennarum, dequibus jam diximus, api
. Musei Leveriani explicatio, anglica et latina . macula au- reo-cuprea Chalcoptcra. » Lath. ind. oni. p. 604. IN pulcherrimis quse a Nova Hollandia haftemis afportatse funt avlbus jurehabeatur Columba Chalcoptera, quae magnitudine fere palumbi asqualiseft, corpore graciliori et elegantiori. Color quoad fuperiora fufco-pallet, tec-tricibus alarum majoribus fingulis macula lata fplendide cuprea infignitisj undeper alam ducuntur totidem ordines metallici nitoris. Variata luce, variant quo-que macule, pulchritudinem avis mirum in modum augentes. Pennarum, dequibus jam diximus, apices coloris funt leviter cinerei. Remiges interioresNo. V. H h feu ( 226 ) feu fecundarli fimiliter fpeculo lucide caeruleo-viridi, ut in anatum alis videreeft, notantur apicibus fufcis. Cauda plumbea feu caerulefcens prope apicem fafciam habet latera nee non corpus inferius funt plumbeo-cserulea, pedlore roftro trans oculos excurrit ftria fulca, et utrinque capiti imponitur notaalbicans. Roftrum pedefque rubra. THE. ( i7 )THE BRONZE-WINGED PIGEON. GENERIC CHARACTER. Bill weak, flender, ftrait at the bafe, with a ibft protuberance in \\Iiicli the noftrils are fliort: toes divided to the origin. SPECIFIC CHARACTER, &c. Brownifli Pigeon, with red beak and legs ; tlie coverts each marked with a Ipot of golden pigeon. Whitis Voyage to New South 1 Vales, p. 146. THIS fpecies may certainly be numbered amongfl the mod beautifulbirds hitherto difcovered in the continent of New Holland. Its fize isnearly that of a wood-pigeon, but it is longer and of a more elegant colour above is a fine pale brown, the larger wing-coverts being eachmarked by a broad patch of lucid copper-colour, and by their pofition onthe wing forming fo many rows of large cupreous fpots, of the richeft me-tallic fplendor, and accompanied by a degree of varying luftre, which addsin a fingular manner to the elegance and beauty o
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