Volume 9, Plate IX / Ornithology (Birds)

Chestnut-Shouldered Pigeon

Columba spadicea

A large and beautiful species of the Friendly and other Pacific islands, measuring nineteen to twenty inches, with metallic plumage and a peculiar subfurcate tail of rigid feathers, its habits little known. The head, foreneck, and breast are deep metallic green, the occiput greenish-brown with a rufous tinge, the abdomen white, the mantle and lesser coverts brownish-red, the quills purplish-brown, and the bill and feet red.