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O. martinica. Above chestnut-rufous, the crown and nape with purplish- 

 green, the lower part of nape with golden-green, the back with violet, the 

 other upper parts with bright purplish-red reflections ; beneath pinkish- 

 white, more purplish on the jugulum. A distinctly marked light stripe on 

 the cheek, bordered below by one of purplish-red. Length, 10.70; wing, 

 6.20 ; tail, 5.75. Hab. Key West, Florida (?) Cuba, and Martinique. 

 O. montana.^ Above deep orange-rufous, without bright reflections, but 

 with an opaque gloss of reddish-purple on the back and nape. Beneath 

 ochraceous, inclining to vinaceous on the jugulum. Cheeks without distinct 

 whitish bar bordered below by reddish. Wing, 5.70. Hab. Atlantic region 

 of Middle America from Xalapa to Brazil ; West Indies. 



Oreopeleia martinica, Eeich. 



KEY WEST PIGEON. 



Columba martinica, Gmelin, I, 1788, 781 (not of Temniinck). Geotrygon martinica, 

 BoNAP. Consp. Av. II, 1854, 74. — Cab. Jour. IV, 1856, 108. Oreopeleia martinicana, 

 Reich. Syst. Av. 1851, page xxv. — Ib. "Icones Avium, tab. 257, lig. 1431." Columba 

 montana, AuD. Orn. Biog. II, 1834, 382, pi. clxvii. — Ib. Syu. 1839, 191. — Ib. 

 Birds Am. V, 1842, 14, pi. cclxxxii. — Ndttall, Man. I, (2d ed.,) 1840, 756 (not 

 of Linnaeus). Zcnaida montana, Bonap. Geog. & Comp. List, 1838. " Columbigallina 

 TOOJitoia, Temminck." "Columba mystacca, Lembeye," Bonap. (not of Temniinck). 

 Oreopeleia martinica, Baied, Birds N. Am. 1858, 607. — Cab. J. IV, 109 (Cuba). — 

 GuNDL. Repert. Cub. I, 1866, 299 (Cuba). — Reich. Handb. Taub. 31, tab. 257, fig. 1432. 



Sp. Char. Ground-color of the upper parts, including wing (both surfaces), and tail- 

 feathers, chestnut-rufous ; the up- 

 per 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 

 head, 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 Avhite 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 ; Cuba and Martinique, perhaps elsewhere in the West Indies. 



Habits. The Key West Pigeon is found within the fauna of the United 

 States only in the extreme southern portion of Florida, and, so far as known, 

 only on the island of Key West, where Mr. Audubon met with them, and 

 enjoyed a limited opportunity of observing their habits. He describes the 



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^ Oreopeleia montana. Columba montana, Linn. S. N. 1758. 

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