COLUMBID^ — THE PIGEONS. 



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Genis CHAM^PELIA, Swainson. 

 CliamcepeUa, Swaixsox, Zool. Jour. Ill, 1S27, 3ijl. (Type, Columba passerina, L.) 



Gen. Char. Size very small. Bill slender, elongated, 

 head measured from frontal feathers. Legs stout. 

 Tarsi longer than lateral toes : equal to the 

 middle -without its claw ; covered anteriorly by a 

 single series of .scutellK. Wings broad ; the 

 tertials excessively lengthened, nearly as long as 

 the primaries, quite equal to the first primary. 

 Tail nearly as long as the wings ; roiuided 

 laterally. 



This gronjD embraces the most diminu- 

 tive Doves known to naturalists. A single 

 species is found abundantly in the southern 

 United States ; another is found in north- 

 ern South America. They may be distinguished as follows 



Culmen more than haU' the 



C/iamtppfrlia passerina. 



C. passeriua. Feathers of jugulum with a duslfy central spot ; occiput and 

 najie squaniated with dusky. Hab. Southern Atlantic and Gulf States, 

 whole of Mexico (including Lower California), Central America, New 

 Granada, Venezuela, and West Indies. 



C. griaeola.' No central dusky spot to feathers of jugulum, and no scale- 

 like markings on occiput or nape. Hab. Brazil and New Granada. 



Chamaepelia passerina, Swaixson. 



GROUND DOVE. 



Columba passerina, LlNK^rs, Syst. Nat. I, 1766, 285. — Latham, Ind. Orn. U, 1790, 611. 



— WiLSOX, Am. Orn. IV, 1811, 15, pi. xlvi. — AVaglee, Syst. Av. Columba, No. 88. 



— AtTB. Orn. Biog. II, 1834, 471 ; V, 1839, 558, pi. clxxxii. — Ib. Birds Amer. V, 

 1842, 19, pi. cclxxxiii. — SuND. Ofv. 1869, 586 (St. Bartholem.y.) Columia (Goura) 

 passerina, Bonap. Obs. Wils. 1825, No. 181. — Nuttall, Man. I, 1832, 635. Chcc- 

 mepelia passerina, Swaixson, Zool. Jour. Ill, 1827, 358. Cliavuvpclia passerimi, 

 BoNAP. List, 1838. —Ib. Conspectus, II, 1854, 77. — GossE, Birds .Tamaica, 1847, 

 311.— Baied, Birds N. Am. 1858, 606. — Sol. P. Z. S. 1859, 391 (Oaxaca) ; 1857, 

 205 (Xalapa) ; Ibis, I, 223 (Guatemala) ; P. Z. S. 1864, 178 (City of Mexico). —Cab. J. 

 IV, HI (Cuba). — Beyaxt, B. Pr. 1866 (Porto Kico). — Lawr. Ann. Lye. IX, 134 

 (Costa Rica), 207 (Yucatan). —March, P. A. N. S. 1863, 302 (Jamaica). -Coopee, 

 Cm. Cal. I, 1870, 516. Pyrgitcenas passerinus, Reichexh. Handb. Taub. 13 (1861 ?), 

 tab. 266, f. 2875-78 ; tab. 256, f. 1419, 1420. Chamoepelia graiudina, Boxav. Consp. 

 II, 77 (Bogota). Chamcepelia albivitla, Boxap. Consp. II, 77 (Carthagena). Cluima:- 

 pdia var. pal.lcscens, Baird, P. A. N. S. Pliilad. 1859 (Cape St. Lucas). — Cooper 

 Orn. Cal. \, 1870, 517. 



1 Cluivxccpdia (jriseoln, Spix, Av. Bras. t. 75, a, f. 2. • 

 56 (Brazil). 



- Keixh, Vid. Med. Nat. For. 1870, 



