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SYSTEMA TIC SYNOPSFS. — COLUMB^— PERISTER^. 



GEOTRY'GON. (Gr. yea, gea, the earth; rpvyav, trugon, a cooer.) Lustre Doves. Tail 

 about as long as wings, little rounded, of 12 broad rounded feathers, with curved shafts. 

 Wings short, rounded ; 3d and 4th quills longest, 2d and 4th little shorter, 1st much shorter. 

 Feet strongly zenaidine ; tarsus not shorter than middle toe and clavA^ ; still, scutellate in front, 

 and hind toe more than half as long as the middle, jjerfectly insistent. Bill rather long and 

 stout; frontal feathers obtuse on culmen. Head and wings without blue-black spots; whole 

 upper parts highly lustrous. Medium size ; form stocky, somewhat quail-like, but tail long. 

 Sexes similar. Approaching Starnoenas, but at a distance. West Indian and Tropical 

 American. 



G. chry'sia. (Gr. ;^pvcrioi', chrusion, a piece of gold.) Key West Dove. Bridled Dove. 

 Adult (^ 9 • Above, vinaceous-red with highly iridescent lustre of various tints, amethystine on 

 the back, but greenish on the nape; below, pale purplish fading to creamy; Avings and tail 

 mostly cinnamon; a white infra-ocular stripe, and below this a dark malar stripe, bill red; 



feet pink; iris brown. Length 11.00; 

 wing about 6.00 ; tail about 5.00. Cuba, 

 Haiti, the Bahamas, and Key West, 

 Florida, where only once observed of late 

 (Sept. 15, 1889. See Scott, Auk, Jan. 

 1890, p. 90), though seeming to have 

 been common in Audubon's time. Nest- 

 ing as described, not peculiar ; eggs 2, 

 pale buff, 1.25 X 0.95, laid Feb.-July 

 (in Cuba). G. martinica of former edi- 

 tions of the Key, as of most authors ; A. 

 0. U. Check List, 1st ed. 1886, No. [322.] ; 

 but the bird which visits Cuba proves to 

 be the somewhat different G. clirysia Bp. 

 Consp. ii, 1854, p. 72 ; Salvad. Cat. B. 

 Brit. Mus. xxi, 1893, p. 571 ; A. 0. U. 

 Suppl. List, Auk, Jan. 1897, p. 126, 

 No. [322.]. 



G. inouta'ua. (Lat. , inhabiting moun- 

 tains.) Buddy Dove. Mountain 

 Dove. Adult $ 9 '■ Closely resembling 

 G. clirysia (and G. martinica) ; less bril- 

 liantly amethystine, and of nearly or 

 quite uniform tint over all tlie upper ])arts, wliich may be called purplish-rufous ; under parts 

 similar, n(»t paling to creamy or white on the throat and vent, but to tawny buff; no white 

 infra-ocular bar, but two poorly defined dark stripes on each side of the throat and head. Young 

 dark brown with an olive cast above, and usually some rusty markings, more rufous and buffy 

 on the lower parts ; quills more extensively dusky than in the adults. Smaller than clirysia 

 and martinica: wing under 6.00; tail under 4.00. Eggs 1.10 X 0.85, rounded oval, pale 

 creamy or salmon buff. A long and well-kuown inhabitant of tropical and subtropical America, 

 including the West Indies, N. to E. Mexico and Cuba, taken at Key West, Florida, Dec. 8, 

 1888 : see Scott, Auk, April, 1889, p. 160, and July, 1889, p. 246. Columha montana, 

 Linn. 1758; Geotrygon Montana, Bp. Consp. Av. II, 1854, p. 72; COUES, Key, 4th ed. 

 1890, p. 904; A. 0. U. List, 2d ed. 1895, No. [322. 1.]. 



Fig. 48G. — Blue-headed Quail D^ 



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