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SCRATCHING BIRDS — RASORES. 



Gexus CHAM^PELIA, Swainson. 



Cliamcrpella , SwAINSOx, Zool. Juur. 111. 1827, 3U1. (Typp, Culuinha passmiia, L.) 



Gen. Char. Size vory small. Bill sU'iulor, clongatL'd. Culincn more tlian lialf tho 

 head iiieasnrcd from frontal leatluTS. Levi's stout. Tar.si loni;cr than lateral toes ; e(]n::I 

 to the middle witlimit its ilaw ; eovered anteriorly li\' a sin"le series of seutelhe. Winis 



C. passertna. 



broad ; the tertials excessively lennthened ; nearly as lonj; as the primai'ies ; qnitc eqnal to 

 the first ])rimary. Tail neai'ly as long as the wings ; rounded laterally. 



Chaniaepelia passerina, Linn.eus. 



THE GKOUND DOVE. 



Cohimha paiserinn, Linn.f.i-s, Syst. Nat. I. ITGG, 285. — Wir.sox, Am. Orn. IV. 1811, l.'i ; 

 pi. xlvi. — AunuBO.N, Orn. Bioj;. II. 18.'i4, 471; V. 18.M, .WS ; pi. 1,6:2. In. Birds 

 Amcr. V. 1842, 19; ]il. 28.3. — Nuttall, Man. I. 2(1 oil. 7G7. — C/mimijif/iii /uissm'tia, 

 Swainson, Zool. Jour. iii. 1827, 358. — Baiud, P. R. Rep. IX. Birds, 606. — CouES, Pr. 

 A. N. Sc. 18GG, 93. 



Sp. Char. Back, rnm]i, ex])osed surface of tertials, ami l.iil .-diove, uniform grayisli- 

 olive ; neck above ami occijjnt tin-ed wilh blnish ; forehead, .^idi'S of head and neck, under 



