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inner webs of quills rufous ; tail (except middle feathers) blackish ; lower parts 

 chiefly vinaceous. Adult females much duller, the lower parts dull light vinaceous- 

 grayish, or light brownish. 



a 1 . Axillars and under wing-coverts chestnut-rufous. 



Adult male : Head, neck, and lower parts pinkish vinaceous, the feathers 

 of the breast dusky grayish brown centrally, and those of head and neck 

 margined with a darker shade of the ground-color; occiput and nape 

 bluish gray, or glaucous ; upper parts in general plain grayish brown, 

 the innermost wing-coverts (which are often vinaceous, like lower 

 parts) marked with small spots of dark metallic violet. Adult female : 

 Similar to male, but colors much duller, the vinaceous replaced by light 

 brownish gray (sometimes slightly vinaceous). Young : Somewhat like 

 adult female, but still duller, or more grayish, the feathers, especially of 

 upper parts, narrowly margined terminally with whitish. Length 6.00- 

 7.00, wing 3.10-3.60, tail 2.60-2.80, exposed culmen .41-.48, tarsus .60- 

 .66. Eggs .84 X -64. Hab. Whole of Middle America, West Indies, and 

 northern South America ; north to southern Atlantic and Gulf States 

 (casually to District of Columbia), Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and 

 Lower California 320. C. passerina (LiNN.). Ground Dove. 



a 2 . Axillars and most of under wing-coverts black. 



Adult male: Above vinaceous-chestnut, becoming bluish gray on top of 

 head, and light vinaceous on forehead ; lower parts plain deep vinaceous, 

 paler on chin. Adult female : Above dull brownish, sometimes tinged 

 with rusty; lower parts plain grayish brown, or brownish gray. Wing 

 about 3.50-3.70. Hab. Middle America and northern South America, 

 north to Orizaba and Colima, Mexico. 



C. rufipennis (BONAP.). Rufous Ground Dove. 1 



GENUS SCARDAFELLA BONAPARTE. (Page 211, pi. LXIL, fig. 5.) 



Species. 



COMMON CHARACTERS. Grayish brown above, each feather with a terminal 

 border or crescentic bar of dusky ; inner web of quills, except terminal portion, 

 rufous ; under wing-coverts partly black ; lower parts pale grayish vinaceous, pass- 

 ing into white or buff posteriorly, marked like upper parts ; lateral tail-feathers 

 with terminal half white, the rest black. 



a 1 . Larger wing-coverts, belly, and lower tail-coverts white ; breast distinctly squa- 

 mated with dusky ; wing about 4.00, tail 4.00. Hab. South America (Brazil, 

 Venezuela, eastern Ecuador, etc.). 



S. squamosa (TEMM.). Scaled Dove.* 



1 Talpacotia rufipennis BONAP., Consp. ii. 1854, 79. 



* Columba squamom TEMM., Pig. et Gal. i. 1811, pi. 59. Scardafella squamosa BONAP., Consp. ii. 1854, 85. 



