Copy 1, Volume 11

General zoology, or systematic natural history / By George Shaw ... with plates from the first authorities and most select specimens, engraved principally by Mr. Heath.

  • Shaw, George, 1751-1813.
Date:
1800-1826
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Credit: General zoology, or systematic natural history / By George Shaw ... with plates from the first authorities and most select specimens, engraved principally by Mr. Heath. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the time, uttering its cry: it is a great enemy to the White Eagle of Le Vaillant. NUTMEG PIGEON. (Columba enea.) Co. corpore neo, rostro virescente, pectore abdomineque subtus griseo-ceruleis, remigibus cauddque ex cerulescente viridibus. Femina. Capite pectore abdomineque subtus griseo-rufis, re- migibus cauddque viridi-nigris. Pigeon, with a brassy body, the beak greenish, the breast and abdomen beneath of a greyish-blue ; the quills and tail of a bluish-green. Female, with the head, breast, and abdomen beneath of a rufous-grey ; the quills and tail green-black. ‘Columba eznea. Linn. Syst. Nat. 1, 283, 22.—Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 780.—Lath. Ind, Orn. 2. 602. 33.—Temm. Pig. Ind. p. 440. Palumbus Moluccensis, Briss. Orn. 1. 148. 41. ¢. 13. f. 2. Pigeon ramier des Moluques. Buff. Ois. 2. 538.—Buff. Pl. Enl. 164. : Pigeon cuivré mangeur de muscade, Sonner. Voy. Ind. 168. 102. var. Colombe muscadivére. Temm. Pig. edit, 8vo. p. 86. Nutmeg Pigeon. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 636. 30.—4. 637. 30. B. Tue adult male of this species has the whole of the head, the neck, and the under parts of the plumage of a beautiful grey-blue: the shoulders, the back, the great and little wing-coverts of a deep green, with metallic reflections ; the primary quills and secondaries are of a blue-green: the