) 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, 



Upper parts, grayish olive ; crown, tinged with slate color ; sides of neck, with 

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

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

 feathers, much longer than outer feathers. 



flourning Dove. 

 Zenaidura macroura. 

 See No. 252. 



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

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

 dle ones ; terminal fourth of tail feathers, ashy, or ash gray. 



White-winged Dove. 



Melopelia leucoptera. 

 See No. 254. 



