X ILLUSTRATIONS. 



TEXT FIGURES. 



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1. Adult male barred rock-pigeon, Columba livia, No. 17 



2. Adult male barred rock-pigeon, C. livia, No. 7 IS 



3. Oriental or Japanese turtle-dove, Tartar orientalis 19 



4. Adult female Florida ground-dove, Chamoepelia passcrina 24 



5. Chequers of wing of juvenal male passenger-pigeon, Ectopisles migratorius 25 



0. Chequers of wing of adult female passenger-pigeon 25 



7. Chequers of adult male passenger-pigeon 27 



S. Adult white-winged pigeon, Melopelia It ucoplera 29 



9. Adult white-breasted crested pigeon, Lophophaps leucogaster 31 



10. Juvenal male crested pigeon, Ocyphaps lophotes 33 



11. Adult female crested pigeon, O. lophotvs 38 



12. Diagram to illustrate pattern sequence in I he anterior wing-bar of male Ocyphaps 44 



13. Adult male Nesopelia galapagoensis 56 



14. Left wing of juvenal white-winged pigeon, Melopt lia It ucoplera, age 25 days 57 



15. Showing the oblique streak in a common pigeon of 7 weeks and 2 days 79 



16. Pin-feathers marking the region of the oblique streak in a common pigeon of 17 days 81 



17. Adult Mange's dove, Geopelia maugei S7 



18. Wing of juvenal Geopelia striata, age 18 days 89 



19. Wing of juvenal G. striata, age 28 days 89 



20. Wing of juvenal G. humeralis, age 30 days 93 



21. Wing of juvenal G. humeralis, age 10 weeks 95 



22. Wing of adult G. humeralis 95 



23. Columba rupestris 110 



24. A, The Philippine rail, Ballus pectoralis. B, The wood sandpiper, Totanus glareola 129 



25. The breast-frill in j uvenile hybrids 144 



26. A, Hybrid mourning-dove X ring-dove. B, Adult Geopelia striata. C, Same fraternity with three-fourths 



hybrid of text fig. 25. D, Juvenal Geopelia humeralis, just hatched 145 



27. A, Juvenile, three-fourths hybrid, same fraternity with text-figure 25. B, Juvenile homer (C2) in first 



plumage, age 06 days. C, Adult male chequered homer 1 16 



28. Three stages of frill and feathering in a juvenal African owl-pigeon. A, African owl, age 17 days. B, The 



same, age 26 days. C, The same, age 36 days 147 



29. A, Adult male African owl-pigeon. B, Adult hybrid Zenaidura X St. risoria. C, The same, in profile .... 148 



30. Juvenal Geopelia tranquiUa (Gtl-Bl), age 10 days 186 



31. The same, age 17 days 187 



32. Juvenal G. tranquiUa (Gtl-Bl), age 2S days 18S 



33. The same as text-figure 32, age 38 days 189 



34. Geopelia cuneata, age 68 days (second plumage) 191 



35. Juvenal G. cuneata. age 44 days 193 



36. Geopelia cuneata (Gel -Al ) . age 68 days 193 



ERRATA. 



Page 73, line 36, for "pis. 16 and 17, Vol. II," read "pi. 8, Vol. II." 



Page 76, line 5. for " Fig. B. 5, 0. 7, 8," read " Fig. B. 1. 2, 3. 4." 



Page 76, line 11, for "Fig. D. 1. 5. 6." read " Fig. D. 1. 2, 3." 



Page 80, line :!, for "C. pigui" read "C. picui"; also on page 84. 



Page 84, under explanation of Plate 32, Fig. B. For "X 0. 5" read "natural size." 



Page 94, explanation of Plate 40, under Figs. A and C, instead of "X 0.7" read L.4. 



Page 107, line 23. for "pi. r,7. Vol. II." read "pi 35, Vol. II." 



Page L28, near foot of page, for "X 0.75," read "X 0.35 (about)." 



Plates 70 ami 80, periorbital is misspelled. 



