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for food, their flesh being- white and of fine flavor. When eaptured 
young' the}" are easily domesticated, and associate freely with chickens. 
They are continually erecting and throwing forward their frontal 
crest. They have under the throat two oblong- bare spots. These 
are red in life, and on hot days, when the birds are panting, hang down 
like wattles. The beak and tarsi are blue, and skin of face dark blue. 
Family COLUMBID^. 
II. COLUMBA PLUMBEA Vieillot. 
WINE-COLORED PIGEON. 
Local name: Falta pnco, frniii the fancied reMmbhince of its call of four notes to those words. 
One specimen, a female, was obtained at San Julian on August 3. It 
difi^ers from the other doves and pigeons seen at that place in its note, 
which is a whistle and not a coo, and in the color of its irides, which 
are light grayish blue, instead of reddish 3^ellow. Its flesh is said to 
have an unpleasant, bitter taste. 
Tarsi pink, lids red. 
12. LEPTOTILA INSULARIS Richmond. 
MARGARITAN DOVE. 
Local name: Paloma, i. e., dove. 
Abundant. This is the common object of pursuit of the gunners, 
and numbers are caught by the children in coop traps with flgure-four 
triggers and in snares of horse hair. Many fledglings were seen at 
San Julian. They difler very markedly in color from the adults, being 
much darker and mottled, the back bronzy-green and purple in places. 
Feet purplish in the young. Adults have the irides yellow, feet 
reddish. 
Three specimens were secured, which are to be referred to the 
Margaritan form, although they average a trifle larger in wing- meas- 
urements. 
Family PERISTERID^F. 
13. SCARDAFELLA RIDGWAYI Richmond. 
RIDG WAY'S SCALED DOVE. 
A few were seen in the dry cactus region along the coast at the 
mouth of the San Julian Valley. Their notes give them the name 
"potoco." One specimen, a male, was shot July 11. 
This is the same as the Margaritan form. Those who do not wish 
to recognize this bird as difterent from that of Brazil will still have to 
use the name ridgwat/i, as the term xqaaiii(>><<i is preoccupied. 
