PALE-VENTED PIGEON 



or green, and with heavy scale-like markings of 

 black spotted with white, these white spots con- 

 tinuing to the upper back, increasing in size and 

 changing to cinnamon; tail grayish brown and 

 black: lower chest and breast pale purple drab, 

 the feathers margined with brown : abdomen and 

 under tail coverts white. Iris, brown; bill 

 red with white tip; feet purplish. 



Female. Similar to male but duller. 



Young. Duller in coloration than adults and 

 with only a suggestion of scaling and spotting. 



A handsome, strikingly marked and unmis- 

 takable species. Both Hallinan and Jewel record 

 it, Hallinan on very high trees and Jewel, in a 

 thicket. 



2. Columba rufina pallidicrissa (Chubb) 

 Pale-vented Pigeon. "Torcaza" 



Chlorcenas rufina pbllidicrissa RIDGWAY, Birds of N. and 

 M. Amer., VII, p. 305, 1916. 



Length, 317 mm. (12.50 in.); tail, 113 mm. 

 (4.45 in.). 



Male. Forehead and front of crown vinaceous 

 drab passing on remainder of top of head and 

 nape to gray, and brightly glossed with metallic 

 green and bronze; sides of head light gray, fading 

 to whitish on chin and upper throat and deepen- 

 ing to gray on lower throat ; neck all around and 

 breast vinaceous or purplish drab, fading to 

 ashen on lower abdomen and under tail coverts; 

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