274 DOVES. 



in distribution. Social when not breeding. 

 Note, a mournful double coo. 



263. ZANAIDA DOVE. 



Tail not pointed, but short and rounded, 

 yellow-brown, a narrow white wing-band, 



Fig. 215 



Mourning Dove. 



small black spot on neck where there is an 

 irridiscent patch. Common on Bahamas 

 and in some of the West Indias, rare on the 

 Fla. Keys. Not social, lives mostly on 

 ground. Coo of two notes, the first uttered 

 with a falling inflection, the second fol- 



