.298 Mr. Ambrose A. Lane — Field-Notes 



The iris of this Pigeon is a double ring, the outer section 

 being cadmium-yellow, and the inner orpiment-orange. 

 The bare skin round the eye is Indian purple, marked with 

 a delicate network of pomegranate-purple. The tarsi and 

 feet are of a brilliant poppy-red, the bill and claws black. 



90. Zenaida maculata (Vieill.). 



Zenaida auricidata, Salvad. B. M. C. xxi. p. 384. 



(Hacienda Mansel, Eio Pilraaiguen, and Rio Bueno.) 



This Dove is very plentiful throughout Central Chili. I 

 saw only a few near Concepcion on going south in June 

 (1890), when it was mid-winter there, and further south I 

 found it only occurred as a summer visitant. 



It arrived at Maquegua (as a summer visitant) about 

 the end of August. On going to Valdivia in September I 

 did not find it there, nor in any other locality I visited 

 until I got to Rio Bueno, where it was plentiful on the 

 banks of the rivers, on the margins and pebbly beaches 

 of which it constantly appeared to be feeding. 



In Central Chili it breeds from November to December,- 

 and at Rio Bueno from Christmas till March. 



The nests are like that of the European Turtle-Dove ; 

 those I found at Rio Bueno being usually placed in a thick 

 bush or the fork of a tree overhanging or standing in Avater. 



I got a young bird to rear in January, 1891, at Rio 

 Bueno : we took it from a nest in a " quila " whilst going 

 along the Rio Conta in a boat ; but soon after we were ship- 

 wrecked on a rapid, and all my specimens, and most of my 

 clothes, were swept away. I sul)sequently got a pair from 

 another nest, but they were too young and I could not get 

 them to thrive ; they died in consequence after I had had 

 them a week. 



91. Metriopelia melanoptera (Mol.). 

 Metriopelia melanoptera, Salvad. B. M. C. xxi. p. 497. 

 (Lalcalhuay, Tarapaca.) 



This Dove occurs at Huasco, Sacaya, and other locali- 

 ties in Tarapaca; I only observed it between 8,000 and 

 12,000 feet. On first going to Huasco in January I noticed 



