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PIGEONS AND SAND GROUSE 



the Duke of York island. In Reinwardt's long-tailed pigeon (R. reinwardti) both 

 sexes have the head, neck, and mantle pale lavender, the back, wings, and middle 

 tail feathers chestnut, and the front of the neck and breast white shading into 

 lavender on the abdomen. The last genus Coryphcsnas, contains one crested species 

 ( C. crassirostrii) from the Solomon group. The whole plumage of this bird is slate 

 color, darker on the upper surface, and the head is dusky brown, the feathers on 

 the back of the head being lengthened into a grayish-brown crest. 



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PASSENGER PIGEON. 



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The last group of the subfamily, like the other long-tailed pigeons, 

 has the tail longer than the wings, but it is also narrower, and the 

 feathers are pointed at the extremity. Only one species, the passenger 

 pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) , of North America is known. In the male the head 

 and upper parts of the body are bluish gray, spotted with black on the wings, the 

 quills brownish black with gray edges, the chin whitish gray, and the breast cinna- 

 mon rufous shading into pale vinous on the rest of the under parts, and white on 

 the under tail coverts. The back and sides of the neck glitter with golden and 

 violet metallic colors. In the female the upper parts of the breast are brownish, 

 shading into white on the abdomen and rest of the under parts. 



