216 NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



a*. Larger wing-coverts pale brownish gray, like rest of coverts ; belly and lower 

 tail-coverts buff; breast very indistinctly squamated; wing 3.75 or less, tail 

 more than 4.00. 



Adult: Lower parts pale grayish vinaceous anteriorly (nearly white on 

 chin), passing into buff on belly, flanks, and lower tail-coverts; chin, 

 throat, and upper part of chest immaculate, but feathers of other por- 

 tions tipped with blackish, these bars broadest on flanks ; upper parts, 

 including all the wing-coverts, grayish brown, each feather tipped with 

 a crescentic bar of blackish. Young : Similar to adult, but less pinkish 

 beneath, and grayish brown of upper parts somewhat mottled by occa- 

 sional whitish tips to feathers. Length about 8.00, wing 3.70-3.75, tail 

 4.00-4.40. Eggs .82 X -64. Hob. Mexico and Guatemala, north to 

 southern border of United States (southern Texas to southern Arizona.) 



321. S. inca (LESS.). Inca Dove. 



GENUS GEOTRYGON GOSSE. (Page 210, pi. LXIV., fig. 2.) 



Species. 



COMMON CHARACTERS. Upper parts mainly uniform chestnut, the back (some- 

 times other portions also) with more or less of metallic gloss ; lower parts plain 

 dull whitish, ochraceous or buify, deepening into brownish or vinaceous on chest. 



a 1 . Quills rufous, on both webs, in adult (partly rufous in young) ; feathers of neck 



blended. 



b l . Belly and under tail-coverts whitish, or very pale buffy; back brilliantly 

 metallic. 



Adult: Forehead and lores dull chestnut; rest of upper head with 

 hind-neck dull metallic bronzy green, changing to purplish ; back 

 brilliantly metallic reddish purple ; rest of upper parts mainly dull 

 chestnut, more or less glossed with metallic purple, especially on 

 rump and lesser wing-coverts ; a broad whitish malar stripe, extend- 

 ing back to occiput, across ear-coverts ; beneath this a narrower and 

 less distinct stripe of brown or chestnut ; anterior lower parts pale 

 vinaceous, becoming whitish on chin and throat; posterior lower 

 parts dull white, or very pale buffy ; length 10.60-11.75, wing 6.00- 

 6.50, tail 4.20-5.75. Hab. Haiti, Cuba, Bahamas, and Florida Keys. 

 322. G. martinica (GMEL.). Key West Quail-dove. 



b*. Belly and under tail-coverts deep ochraceous ; back not brilliantly metallic. 

 Adult: Above deep purplish chestnut, with metallic reflections (of 

 purplish red) only in certain lights ; chin and throat buffy whitish ; 

 bordered along each side by a dark purplish chestnut stripe, with a 

 buffy malar stripe above it neither very sharply defined ; fore-neck 

 and chest vinaceous or vinaceous-brown ; rest of lower parts deep 

 ochraceous-buff or ochraceous. Young: Above deep sepia-brown 

 (with an olive cast in some lights), the wing-coverts sometimes 



