BLACK-THROATED DOVE. 



young or true female, is so unlike the above, that 

 we shall describe its essential differences. 



The size is similar to the male : the ground co- 

 lour of the upper plumage is light drab, rather darker 

 than isabella-brown ; each feather of the wing-covers, 

 the rump, the upper tail-covers, and the crown and 

 nape, terminates in buff-white or dingy fulvous ; 

 these markings are bordered internally only by a black 

 edging ; they assume the form of roundish spots on 

 the scapulars, wing-covers, and tertials, and of bars 

 on the other parts. The chin is pure white, the 

 throat and breast light drab-brown with dusky trans- 

 verse bars ; all beyond, as in the adult, is pure white. 

 The bar on the back, the quill, and the tail-feathers 

 are like the adult male, but the bill and feet are light 

 brown. This accords pretty well with Le Yaillant's 

 figure at pi. 275, but the brown bar on the back, in 

 both our specimens, is single, and not double as 

 authors affirm it to be. 



Total length, 9 inches ; bill, $ ; wings, 4^ ; 

 tail beyond, 3^ ; ditto, from the base, 5 3 % ; tarsus, 



