206 TAMBOURINE GROUND DOVE, 



Turtles, or the present genus. It is a neat and 

 clean looking bird, the whole of the upper plumage 

 being of a bistre -brown, slightly tinged with grey up- 

 on the neck. Upon the outer webs of three or four of 

 the greater wing-coverts are large spots of lustrous 

 blackish -green. The middle tail-feathers are umber 

 brown ; the two exterior on each side gray, with a 

 broad black bar near the tip. The greater quills have 

 their inner webs deep brown. The forehead, streak 

 over the eye, and under plumage, is pure white. 

 The under wing-coverts and sides are pale orange- 

 brown ; under tail-coverts umber-brown. The bill 

 and legs are gray, the latter slightly tinged with 

 red. In length it measures nearly nine inches, 

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