BIRDS COLUMBIDAE — OKEOPELEIA MARTINICA. 



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brownish ash, more anteriorly by white. Tho forehead feathers have the darker margins as 

 well as the rest of the head. There is also a more ashy tinge on the back. The under tail 

 coverts are brown, conspicuously margined with whitish. 



I am unable to detect any material dillerence between specimens from Florida, the lower Rio 

 Grande, and Lower California. 



List of specimens. 



OREOPELEIA, Reichenbach. 



Ortopeltitt, Reiciiekbacd, Handbuch dor Speciellen Ornilliol. I, i, 1851, page xxiv. Type Columba martinica, L. 



Ch. — Bill lengthened, slender; culmen half the rest of tho head from the frontal feathers. Feet large, bIguI; tarsi longer 

 than the middle too and claw, covered anterior!}' by transverse sculcllae. Inner lateral claw longer than outer; reaching 

 beyond the base of tho middle one, the outer falling short of it. Hind toe and claw more than half the middle do. Quills and 

 tail feathers very broad ; the wings rounded ; second and third quills longest, the tirst intermcdiatu between the f'ourtli and lillli . 

 Tail sub-orbicular, tlio shafts convex outwardly ; the leathers rounded, a little graduated. 



This genus is placed by Bonaparte as a sub-genus of Geotrycjon of Gosse. 



OREOPELEIA MARTINICA, Reich. 



Key West Pigeon. 



Columba martinica, Gmelin, I, 1788, 781. Not of Temminck. 



Giolrygon martinica, Bonap. Consp. Av. II, 1854, 74. — Cab. Jour. IV, 1856, 108. 



Oreopekia martinicana, Keich. Syst. Av. 1851, page xxv. — Ib. " Icones Avium, tab. 257, fig. 1431. " 



Columba montana, AuD. Orn. Biog. II, 1634, 382; pi. 167 — Ib. Syn. 1839, 191.— Ib. Birds Amer. V, 1842, 14 ; pi. 

 282.— NnTTALL, Man. I, Jd ed. 1840, 756. Not of Linnaeus. 



Zenaida monlana, Bokap. Geog. & Comp. List, 1838. 



" Columbigaltina montana, Temminck." 



" Columia mys/occa, Lembeye." Bonap. (Not of Temminck.) 

 Sp. Ch. — Ground color of tlie upper parts, including wing (both surfaces) and tail feathers brownish orange ; tlie upjier part 

 of head and neck with metallic reflections of green and purple ; the back, rump, and wing coverts, with reflections of metallic 

 light purplish or violet. There is a white band from tho lower mandible along side of the head, bordered below by purplish 

 red, like the forehead, and a similar band through the eyes, which are without mctullic lustre. Tho breast is very light purplish 

 red, fading to white towards the tail and chin. The feathers of the under tail coverts are dusky brown at the base. Length, 

 10.70; wing, 6.00; tail, 5.75. 



Hab. — Key West, Florida, and West Indies. 



