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Genus CHAM^ffiPELIA, Swainson. 



Chamoepelia, Swainson, Zool. Jour. Ill, 1827, 361. (Type, Columba passerina, L.) 



Gen. Char. Size very small. Bill slender, elongated. Culmen more than half the 

 head measured from frontal feathers. Legs stout. 

 Tarsi longer than lateral toes : equal to the 

 middle without its claw ; covered anteriorly by a 

 single series of scutellie. Wings broad ; the 

 tertials excessively lengthened, nearly as long as 

 the primaries, quite equal to the first primary. 



Tail nearly as long as 

 laterally. 



the wings ; rounded 



This group embraces the most diminu- 

 tive Doves known to naturalists. A single 

 species is found abundantly in the southern 

 United States ; another is found in north- 

 ern South America. They may be distinguished as follows : 



Chammpelia passerina. 



C. passerina. Feathers of jugulum wilh a dusky central spot ; occiput and 

 nape squamated with dusky. Hah. Southern' Atlantic and Gulf States, 

 whole of Mexico (including Lower California), Central America, New 

 Granada, Venezuela, and West Indies. 



C. griseola.' No central dusky spot to feathers of jugulum, and no scale- 

 hke markings on occiput or nape. Hab. Brazil and New Granada. 



Chamsepelia passerina, Swainson. 



GEOUND DOVE. 



Columba passerina, Linn^us, Syst. Nat. I, 1766, 285. — Latham, Ind. Orn. IT, 1790, 611. 



— Wilson, Am. Orn. IV, 1811, 15, pi. xlvi. — Wagler, Syst. Av. Columba, No. 88. 



— AuD. Orn. Biog. II, 1834, 471 ; V, 1839, 558, pi. clxxxii. — Ib. Birds Amer. V, 

 1842, 19, pi. cclxxxiii. — SuND. Ofv. 1869, 586 {St. Bartholemy.) Columba {Goura) 

 passerina, Bonap. Obs. Wils. 1825, No. 181. — Nuttall, Man. I, 1832, 635. Chce- 

 mepelia passerina, Swainson, Zool. Jour. Ill, 1827, 358. Cliamcepelia pusseri/ia, 

 BoNAP. List, 1838. —Ib. Conspectus, II, 1854, 77. — Gosse, Birds Jamaica, 1847, 

 311.- Bairp, Birds N. Am. 1858, 606. — Scl. V. Z. S. 1859, 391 (Oaxaca) ; 1857, 

 205 (Xalapa) ; Ibis, I, 223 (Guatemala) ; P. Z. S. 1864, 178 (City of Mexico). —Cab. J. 

 IV, III (Cuba). — Bryant, B. Pr. 1866 (Porto Kico). — Lawr. Ann. Lye. IX, 134 

 (Costa Rica), 207 (Yucatan). — March, P. A. N. S. 1863, 302 (Jamaica). — Cooper, 

 Orn. Cal. I, 1870, 516. Pipriitcenas passerinus, Rkichenb. Handb. Taub. 13 (1861 ?), 

 tab. 266, f. 2875-78 ; tab. 256, f. 1419, 1420. Chamcepelia granaiina, Bonap. Consp. 

 II, 77 (Bogota). CIiania^2^elia a.lbivitta, Bonap. Consp. II, 77 (Carthagena). Chamm- 

 pelia var. pallescens, Baird, P. A. N. S. Pliilad. 1859 (Cape St. Lucas). — Cooper 

 Orn. Cal. I, 1870, 517. 



1 Chammpelia griseola, Spix, Av. Bras. t. 75, a, f. 2. — Reinh. Vid. Med. Nat. For. 1870, 

 56 (Brazil). 



