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pale buffy on posterior lower parts ; metallic gloss on neck less distinct, 

 the black ear-spot smaller and duller. Young : Much duller in color 

 than adult female, with the tints more brownish; feathers of upper 

 parts, head, neck, and chest, with distinct paler tips or terminal margins ; 

 no metallic gloss on neck, or distinct black spot beneath ears. Length 

 11.00-13.00, wing 5.70-6.10, tail 5.70-6.50, culmen .50-.55. Nest vari- 

 ously situated; Eggs 1.10 X -Si. Hab. AVhole of temperate North Amer- 

 ica, north to Canada, southern Maine, etc., south to Panama and West 



Indies 316. Z. macroura (Linn.). Mourning Dove. 



b-. LoAver tail-eovcrts cinnamon-coloi-. Young (adult unknown') : Much darker 

 in color than Z. macroura, the entire lower parts, including under tail- 

 coverts, uniform deep rusty cinnamon. Wing about 6.00, tail 4.80-5.00, 

 culmen .80. Bab. Socorro Island, western Mexico. 



Z. graysoni Lawr. Socorro Dove.^ 

 rt^ Outer webs of secondaries broadly tipped with white. 



Adult male (female and young unknoion') : Entire lower parts uniform deep 

 vinaceous, somewhat paler on lower tail-coverts. (Plumage exactly that 

 of paler-colored specimens of Zenaida amabilis.) Wing 6.00, tail 4.80. 

 Hab. Yucatan (Merida). 



Z. yucatanensis Lawr. Yucatan Dove.'^ 



Genus ZENAIDA Bonaparte. (Page 210, pi. LXIII., fig. 3.) 



Species. 



Common Characters. — Above olive-brown or russet, the tertials and adjacent 

 wing-coverts or scapulars spotted with black ; head, neck, and breast cinnamon-color, 

 relieved by a spot or streak of blue-black beneath ear-coverts and reflections of 

 changeable metallic purple on sides of neck; tail-feathers (except middle pair) 

 plumbeous or slaty, broadly tipped with a lighter shade of the same, and crossed by 

 a subterminal band of black ; outer webs of secondaries broadly tipped with white. 



a\ Under tail-coverts deep cinnamon ; head and neck purplish cinnamon or deep 

 vinaceous; length 10.00-11.50, wing 6.00-6.25, tail 4.00^.40. Eggs 1.19 X 

 .92. Hab. Florida Keys, Bahamas, Cuba, Jamaica, Porto Eico, Santa Cruz, 

 Sombrero, and coast of Yucatan.. 317. Z. zenaida (Bonap.). Zenaida Dove. 



«l Under tail-coverts whitish, usually slightly tinged with vinaceous or grayish ; 

 head and neck (especially the latter) cinnamon-rufous ; a little larger than 

 Z. zenaida. Hah. Lesser Antilles (St. Bartholomew, St. Vincent, Barbuda, 

 Antigua, Guadeloupe, Dominica, Martinique, Grenada, St. Bustatius, etc.). 



Z. castanea (Wagl.). Antillean Dove.' 



^ Zenaidura graysoni Lawr., Ann. Lye. N. Y. 1871, 17. 



2 Zenaidura yucatanensis Lawr., Ann. Lye. N. Y. ix. 1869, 208. (Perhaps a hybrid between Z. macroura 

 and Zenaida amabilis.) 



^ Cohtmha castanea Wagl., Syst. Av. 1827, 289, Columba, Sp. 7f. {Z. martinicana Bp, et Auct., but not 

 Columba martinica Linn.) 



