2 I 6 Cory on the Birth of the West Indies. 



the sides of the neck tipped with metallic purple; throat tinged 

 with pale lavender; underparts dull bluish white; back olive brown, 

 shading into chestnut brown on the rump; central tail-feathers 

 brown; rest of tail-feathers slate color at the base, succeeded bj a 

 band of black, and tipped with white; quills dark brown, showing 

 an indistinct white edging on the outer primaries, tipped with white ; 

 bill black. 



Length, lo; wing, 6; tail, 4; tarsus, .75; bill, .50. 

 Habitat. Lesser Antilles, 



Zenaida rubripes Lawr. 



Zenaida rubripes Lawr. Auk, II, p. 357 (1885). — Cory, Revised List 

 Bds. W. I. p. 24 (1886).— Wells, List Bds. Grenada, p. 7 (1886). 



Sp. Char. Female ; — "The front is of a light brown tinged with vinace- 

 ous ; the upper plumage is olivaceous-brown, with a dull reddish tinge, 

 which is most observable on the back; the hind part and sides of the 

 neck are grajish, the latter glossed with golden changing to light 

 violet; the two central tail-feathers are olive brown; the outer web 

 of the first lateral feather is pale rufous ; the bases of the four outer 

 ones are brownish-cinereous, with their ends largely pale rufous, 

 the two colors separated by a black bar; the other tail-feathers are 

 dark cinereous with a subterminal black bar, on the under side the 

 color of the basal portion of the tail-feathers is blackish cinereous; 

 the primaries are dark umber-trown, the secondaries brownish- 

 black, both narrowly edged with white ; the tertials are the color of 

 the back, and are marked with four conspicuous oval spots of black ; 

 the under wing-coverts are light bluish-ash, the flanks dark ashy- 

 blue ; behind the eye is a small spot of black, and another below the 

 ears; sides of the head and the chin pale vinaceous, the latter lighter 

 in color; the under plumage is of a reddish cinnamon color, rather 

 dull on the throat and breast, but somewhat brighter on the abdo- 

 men and under tail-coverts; bill black; tai-si and toes carmine red, 



"The color of the feet in the dried specimen is quite bright; in 

 the living bird it is doubtless much more so. The tail has fourteen 

 rectrices. 



"Length, fresh, 9.50 inches ; wing, 5.25; tail, 3. 38; bill,. 62; tar- 

 sus, .75." (Lawr.. 1. c. , orig. descr.) 

 Habitat. Grenada, 



Genus Melopelia Bonap. 



Melofelia Bonaparte, Consp. II, p. 81, 1854. 



Melopelia leucoptera (Linn.). 



Coliimba leucoptera LiNN. Syst. Nat. I, p. 164 (1758). 

 Turtur leucoptera Gosse, Bds. Jam. p. 304 (1847J. 



