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O. martinica. Above chestnut-rufous, tlic crown and nape with purplish- 

 gieen, the lower part of nape with goklon-green, the back with violet, the 

 other upper parts with bright purplish-red retlections ; beneath pinkish- 

 white, more purplish on the juguUnu. A distinctly marked light stripe on 

 the cheek, bordered below by one of purplish-red. Length, 10.70; wing, 

 6.20 ; tail, 5.75. Hah. Key West, Florida (?) Cuba, and Martinique. 

 O. montana.' Above deep orange-rufous, without bright reflections, but 

 with an opaque gloss of reddish-purple on the back and nape. Beneath 

 ochraceous, inehning to vinaceous on the jugulum. Cheeks without distinct 

 whitish bar bordered below by reddish. Wing, 5.70. Ilab. Atlantic region 

 of Middle America from Xalapa to Brazil ; West Indies. 



Oreopeleia martinica, Reich. 



KEY WEST PIGEON. 



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Columba martinica, Gmelin, I, 17SS, 7S1 inot of Tcmniinck). Gcotrycjon martinica, 

 BoxAP. Coiisp. Av. II, 1854, 74. — C.A.B. Jour. IV, 1S56, 108. Oreopeleia marlinicana, 

 Reich. Syst. Av. 1851, page xxv. — Ib. "Icones Avunn, tab. 257, fig. 1431." Columba 

 monlnna, AuD. Oru. Biog. II, 1834, 382, pi. clxvii. — Ib. Syii. 1839, 191. — Ib. 

 Bhxls Am. V, 1842, 14, pi. cckxxii. — Nutiwll, Man. I, (2d ed.,) 1840, 756 (not 

 of Liniioeuii). Zcnaida 7nontana, Boxap. Geog. & Comp. List, 1838. " Cohimbirjallina 

 5no?rffflM«, Temmixck." "Columba mystacea, Lembeye;" Box.\p. (not of Teminiuck). 

 Oreopeleia mxirtinica, B.iiRD, Birds N. Am. 1858, 607. — Cab. .7. IV, 109 (Cuba). — 

 GuNDL. Eepert. Cub. I, 1866, 299 (Cuba). — Reich. Handb. Taub. 31, tab. 257, fig. 1432. 



Sp. Cuar. Ground-color of the upper parts, including wing (both surfaces), and tail- 

 feathers, chestnut-rufous; the up- 

 per part of head and neck with 

 metallic reflections of green and 

 purple ; the backj rump, and 

 wing-coverts, with reflections of 

 metallic light-purplish or violet. 

 There is a white band from the 

 lower mandible along side of the 

 head, bordered below by purplish- 

 red, like the forehead, and a 

 similar band through the eyes, 

 which are without metallic lustre. 

 The breast is very light purpli-sh- 

 red, fading to white towards the 

 tail and chin. The feathers of 

 the under tail-coverts are dusky- 

 brown at the base. Length, 10.70 ; wing, 0.00 ; tail, 5.75. 



Hab. Key West, Florida ; Cuba and Martinique, perhaps elsewhere in the West Indies. 



H.VBITS. The Key West Pigeon is fouiirl within the fauna of the United 

 States only in the extreme southern portion of Florida, and, so far as known, 

 only on the island of Key West, where Mr. Audubon met with them, and 

 eiajoyed a limited opportunity of observing their habits. He describes the 



Oreopeleia martinica. 



Oreopeleia montana. Colmnba viontana, Lixx. S. N. 1758. 

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