BIRDS OF NOKTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 357 



ZENAIDA ZENAIDA ZENAIDA (Bonaparte). 



ZENAIDA DOVE. 



Adult male. — Pileum cinnamon-drab, paler and inclining more or 

 less to fawn color on forehead and passing into deep fawn color lat- 

 erally (on superciliary and supra-auricular regions), and into dull 

 snuff brown on hindneck; rest of head and neck fawn color, fading 

 into pale buff or buffy whitish on chin and extreme upper tliroat, 

 and relieved by two small spots or streaks of glossy blue-black im- 

 mediately above and beneath the posterior portion of the auricular 

 region, the uppermost spot sometimes obsolete; sides of lower neck 

 brilliantly glossed with metallic reddish purple and violet; general 

 color of upper parts snuff brown to buffy brown or deep wood brown, 

 the inner webs of inner row of proximal secondaries mostly black, 

 forming a series of conspicuous large oblong spots, the proximal 

 middle wing-coverts and outer webs of some of the other proximal 

 secondaries also usually with a few much smaller roundish black 

 spots; alulae, primary coverts, primaries, and distal secondaries dull 

 grayish black or blackish gray, more or less distinctly edged with 

 paler, the secondaries broadly tipped with white (most widely on 

 outer webs), the innermost primaries tipped with grayish and margi- 

 nal terminally with white, all the primaries very narrowly but usually 

 very sharply edged with white; tail crossed by a sub terminal band 

 of black (this usually less distinct, sometimes obsolete, on middle 

 pair of rectrices), the terminal portion pale gray on outermost rectrix, 

 deeper gray on the others, the gray gradually deepening, and usu- 

 ally becoming more tinged with brown, toward the middle rectrices, 

 which are brown terminally, the basal portion passing from deep 

 gray (slate-gray) on outermost rectrix to brown on the middle ones; 

 fawn color of foreneck passing into light russet- vinaceous or deep 

 vinaceous-fawn color on chest, breast, abdomen, anal region, and 

 under tail-coverts (the vinaceous hue varying considerably), the 

 under tail-coverts sometimes passing into pale gray on terminal 

 portion; sides and flanks (beneath wings), axillars, and under wing- 

 coverts clear bluish gray (gull gray to deep gull gray); bill black; iris 

 deep brown; bare orbital space pale grayish blue; legs and feet lake 

 red; length (skins), 234-301 (264); wing, 144-164 (156.1); tail, 77-99 

 (88.2); exposed culmen, 13-16 (14.1); tarsus, 22.5-26 (24.5); middle 

 toe, 21-24.5 (22.3).« 



Adult female. — Similar to the adult male, but color of head, neck, 

 and under parts duller (less vinaceous), the pileum dull olive-brownish 



o Forty specimens. 



