BIRDS — COLUMBIDAE — OREOPELEIA MAKTINICA. 



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brownish ash, more anteriorly by white. The 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 difference between specimens from Florida, the lower Kio 

 Grande, and Lower California. 



List of specimens. 



OREOPELEIA, Reichenbach. 



Oreopdtia, Reichenbach, Handbuch der Speciellen Ornitliol. I, i, 1851, page xxiv. Type Columha marlinica, L. 



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

 than the middle toe and claw, covered anteriorly by transverse sculellae. Inner lateral claw longer than outer; reacbing 

 beyond the base of the 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 intermediate between the fourth and fifth. 

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



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



OREOPELEIA MAKTINICA, Reich. 

 Key West Pigeon. 



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



Geotnjgon martinicn, Bonap. Consp. Av. II, 1854, 74. — Cab. Jour. IV, 1856, 108. 



Oreopelcia marlinicana, Reich. Syst. Av. 1851, page xxv. — Ib. " Icones Avium, tab. 257, fig. 1431 " 



Cohimba montana, AuD. Orn. Biog. II, 1834, 382 ; pi. 167.— 1b. Syn. 1K39, 191.— Ib. Birds Amer. V, 1842, 14 ; pi. 



982— NuTTALL, Man. I, Sd ed. 1840, 75G. Not of Linnaeus. 

 Ztnaida montana, lioNAP. Geog. & Comp. List, lb38. 

 " Culmnbigallinii montana, Temmisick." 

 "Columba mystacea, Lembeye." Bonap. (Xot of Temminck.) 



fiv.Cn. — Ground color of the upper parts, including wing (both surfaces) and tail feathers brownish orange ; the upper 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 the lower mandible along side of the bead, bordered below by purplish 

 red, like the forehead, and a similar band through the eyes, which are without metallic lustre. The 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. 



