Lawrence on Nc-v Species of Columbidce. 7C7 



DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES OF BIRDS OF 

 THE FAMILY COLUMBIDCE. 



BY GEORGE N. LAWRENCE. 



i. Zenaida rubripes. 



Fcfnale. The front is of a light brown tinged with vinaceous; the 

 upper plumage is olivaceous-brown, with a dull reddish tinge, which is 

 most observable on the back; the hind part and sides of the neck are 

 grayish, the latter glossed with golden changing to light violet; the two 

 central tail-feathers are olive brown; the outer web of the first lateral 

 feather is pale rufous; the bases of the four outer ones are brownish-cine- 

 reous, with their ends largely pale rufous, the two colors separated by a 

 black bar ; the other tail-feathers are dark cinereous with a subterminal 

 black bar, on the under side the color of the basal portion of the tail 

 feathers is blackish cinereous ; the primaries are dark umber-brown, the 

 secondaries brownish-black, both narrowly edged with white; the tertials 

 are the color of the back, and are marked with four conspicuous oval spots 

 of black; the under wing-coverts are light bluish-ash, the flanks dark 

 ashy-blue; behind the eye is a small spot of black, and another below the 

 ears, sides of the head and the chin pale vinaceous, the latter lighter in 

 color; the under plumage is of a reddish cinnamon color, rather dull on 

 the throat and breast, but somewhat brighter on the abdomen and under 

 tail-coverts; bill black; tarsi and toes carmine red. 



The color of the feet in the dried specimen is quite bright; in the living 

 bird it is doubtless much more so. The tail has fourteen rectrices. 



Length, fresh, 9.50 inches ; wing, 5.25; tail, 3.38; bill, .62 ; tarsus, .75 



Habitat. The Island of Grenada, West Indies. Type in the National 

 Museum, Washington. 



Remarks. — As it somewlv.it resembles the description of T. 

 viniceo-rufa Ridg., I sent it to Mr. Ridgway requesting him to 

 make a comparison with the type of that species ; he writes that 

 it differs from it "in shorter tail, with the feathers much broader 

 and more rounded at the end ; decidedly smaller bill, much less 

 purplish crissum, and in having the tail-feathers much more gray, 

 with the terminal portion of the lateral ones much paler and of 

 a more uniform rufous." 



Mr. J. G. Wells of Grenada in his manuscript list of the 

 birds of that island, gives the name 'Trinidad Dove' to one of the 

 species. For a year or more I have been urging him to procure 

 a specimen that it might be identified. He wrote that his en- 

 gagements would not admit of his going after it, as it was found 



