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66. Remiges partly chestnut or rufous. (Chsemepeliarujipennis.) 

 c. Coloration darker. (British Guiana, Venezuela, and Colombia, northward to 

 Guatemala, Yucatan and Vera Cruz.) 



Chaemepelia rufipennis nifipennis (p. 424). 

 cc. Coloration paler. (Lowlands of southwestern Mexico, northward to southern 

 Sinaloa. ) 



Chsemepelia rufipennis eluta (p. 429). 



CH-fflMEPELIA PASSERINA PASSERINA (Linnaeus). 



FLORIDA GROUND DOVE. 



Adult male. — Forehead, anterior portion of crown, sides of head and 

 neck, and under parts light grayish vinaceous, more or less paler on 

 chin and upper throat, deepening into pinkish light purple-drab on 

 chest, and passing into brownish gray posteriorly, the under tail- 

 coverts more or less distinctly paler on margins; feathers on sides of 

 head and neck and lower throat narrowly margined with darker, those 

 of foreneck and chest more broadly or more distinctly margined, and 

 with a central broadly cuneate spot of dusky; posterior portion of 

 crown, occiput, and hindneck bluish gray (more or less dark), the 

 feathers narrowly margined with dusky; back, scapulars, proximal 

 secondaries, anterior lesser wing-coverts, rump, and upper tail-coverts 

 plain grayish brown (hair brown to deep drab) ; wing-coverts (except 

 more anterior lesser coverts) similar in color to chest, etc., passing 

 into a more grayish hue (nearly drab-gray) on greater coverts, the 

 more proximal coverts with spots (the more posterior ones cuneate 

 and obhque) of metallic blackish purple or violet; distal secondaries 

 duU brownish black, narrowly edged distally with paler; alulae and 

 primary coverts dull black, the latter with basal half chestnut; pri- 

 maries chestnut or chestnut-rufous, with terminal portion and outer 

 webs (except basally) of longer quiJls duU black, the shorter (proximal) 

 primaries tipped and edged with black; middle rectrices brownish 

 gray or grayish brown, the rest dull black, the outermost ones more 

 or less distinctly margined terminally (especially on outer web) with 

 whitish; axillars and under wing-coverts bright chestnut or rufous- 

 chestnut; bill coral red or orange-red, dusky at tip; iris orange-red; 

 legs and feet flesh color or pink; length (skins), 160-181 (169); wing, 



Reichenbach, Tauben, i, 1861, 15, pi. 253, fig. 3359, pi. 256, fig. U24.—[Talpacotia] 

 cinnamomea Bonaparte, Consp. Av., ii, 1857, 78. — Goura cinnamomea Schlegel, De 

 Dierent., 1864, 208. — [Talpacotia] godina Bonaparte, Consp. Av., ii, 1857, 79 (Brazil; 

 Bolivia; coll. Paris Mus.). — Talpacotia godini Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., xl, 1855, 

 220. — Talpacotia godinae Burmeister, Syst Ueb. Th. Bras., ii, 1856, 297. — Chamsepelia 

 godina Pelzeln, Om. Bras., 1870, 450. 



