KEY TO THE BIRDS OF EASTERN NORTH AMERICA. 



Group 2. Wing, from 5.50 to 7.50 inches long. 

 Section 1. Primaries, dark slaty brown or blackish, 



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I'pper parts, grayish olive; crown, tinged with slate color; sides of neck, with 

 purplish metallic reflections: a bluish Mack spot on lower edge of ear coverts; 

 wing coverts, not broadly tipped with white; tail, pointed: middle tail 



leathers, much longer than outer feathers. 



nourning Dove. 



y.<-naidura macroura. 

 See No. 252. 



Wing coverts, broadly tipped with white; crown, and hack of the neck, drab 

 color; tail, square not pointed; outer feathers, but slightly shorter than mid- 

 dle ones; terminal fourth <>f tail I'eatln-r-. ashy, \- ash gray. 



White-winged Dove. 



Mi In/,, li<t /i iii'iijif/ ri/. 

 See No. 254. 



