Tas. LIX.
COLUMBA LEUCONOTA.

Col. capite canescenti-atro; crisso caudaque ngris; nucha, corpore subtus, dorso medio, caude-

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que fascia lata media, albis ; tegminibus alarum vinaceo-canis ; dorso supertort scapularibus-
que brunnescenti-canis ; remigibus, fasctisque alarum brunnescenti-fuscrs.

Statura Col. Palumbi, Linn.

Tue specimen from which this Plate was taken is the only one of this elegant and chastely coloured Pigeon
with which we are acquainted. It was sent in the first collection received from the Himalaya, and our sub-
sequent endeavours to procure others or to ascertain if any exist in our museums, whether public or private,
have hitherto proved fruitless. The species, however, was observed by Mr. Shore among the woods of the
Himalaya, and a specimen is represented in his drawings differing little from that which is given in the
Plate, except in the colouring of the legs, which he has represented as bright red. We have
representation to be correct, and had not the Plate been published before we had
an opportunity of examining Mr. Shore's valuable manuscript, his colouring, taken from the living bird, would
have been adopted instead of that which we now consider to be the faded hue of a dead specimen.

The Columba leuconota belongs to that division of the family which comprehends the Wood Pigeons
common to Europe, which it closely resembles in all its habits and manners. :

The head and upper part of the neck are of a dull black ; the lower part of the neck, lower part of the
back, rump, and under surface pure white ; upper part of the back and scapulars brownish grey ; wing-
coverts light grey, with a vinaceous tinge; quills brown ; tail-ecoverts black; the tail black with a broad

white band.
The figure is of the natural size.

accompanying
every reason to believe this