216 KORTII AMERICAN BIRDS. 



ii'. Larger wing-coverts pale brownish gray, like rest of coverts; belly and lower 

 tail-coverts buff; breast very indisliuctly squamated ; wing 3.75 or less, tail 

 more than 4.00. 



Adult: Lower parts pale grayish vinaeeous anteriorly (nearly white on 

 chin), passing into buff on belly, flanks, and lower tail-coverts ; chin, 

 throat, and upper part of chest immaculate, but feathers of other por- 

 tions tijjped with blackish, these bars broadest on flanks ; upper parts, 

 including all the wing-coverts, grayish brown, each feather tipped with 

 a crescentic bar of blackish. Young: Similar to adult, but less pinkish 

 beneath, and grayish brown of upper parts somewhat mottleil bj' occa- 

 sional whitish tips to feathers. Length about 8.00, wing 3.70-3.75, tail 

 4.00-4.40. Eggs .83 X -65. Hah. Mexico and Guatemala, north to 

 southern border of United States (southern Texas to southern Arizona.) 



321. S. inca (Less.). Inca Dove. 



Genus GEOTRYGON Gosse. (Page 210, pi. LXIV., fig. 2.) 



Common Characters. — Upper parts mainly uniform chestnut, the back (some- 

 times other portions also) with more or less of metallic gloss ; lower parts plain 

 (lull whitish, ochraceous or buffy, deepening into brownish or vinaeeous on chest. 



a}. Quills rufous, on both webs, in adult (partlj^ rufous in young) ; feathers of neck 

 blended. 

 6'. Belly and under tail-coverts whitish, or ver^' jiale huffy; back brilliantly 

 metallic. 



Adult: Forehead and lores dull chestnut; rest of upper head with 

 hind-neck dull metallic bronzy green, changing to purplish ; back 

 brilliantly metallic reddish purple ; rest of upper parts mainly dull 

 chestnut, more or less glossed with metallic purple, especially on 

 rump and lesser wing-coverts; a broad whitish malar stripe, extend- 

 ing back to occiput, across ear-coverts; beneath this a narrower and 

 less distinct stripe of brown or chestnut ; anterior lower parts pale 

 vinaeeous, becoming whitish on chin and throat ; posterior lower 

 parts dull white, or very pale buify ; length 10.00-11.75, wing 6.00- 

 6.50, tail 4.20-5.75. Jh'ih. Haiti, Cuba, Bahamas, ami Florida Keys. 

 322. G. chrysia Bonap.' Key West ftuail-dove. 

 b'. Belly and under tail-coverts deep ochraceous; back not brilliantly nu'tallic. 

 Adxdt : Above deep purplish chestnut, with metallic reflections (of 

 purplish red) only in certain lights ; chin and throat buffy whitish ; 

 bordered along each side bj- a dark purplish chestnut stripe, wilh a 

 buffy malar stripe above it — neither verj- sharply defined ; fore-neck 

 and chest vinaeeous or vinaceous-brown ; rest of lower parts dce]i 



> Ocotnjgon chrysia BoNAr., Consp. ii. 1854, 72, 



