132 MARTINICO GOL'RA. 



quois : it has a very short flight, with frequent 

 starts : it obtains its nourishment on the ground 

 during the daytime, and towards night seeks shelter 

 in deep thickets, close to the ground. 



MARTINICO GOURA. 

 (Goiira Martinica.) 



Go. subviolacea,pectore vinaceo, venire abdomineque rufescentibus, 

 remigibusjuscis interne rufescentibus > maculA sub oculis Jusco- 

 violacea. (Femina, 'violacco-fu&ca, pectore abdomineque albo' 

 fuscescentibus.) 



Cubviolet Goura, with the breast vinaceous ; the belly and ab- 

 domen rufescent j the quills brown, within reddish j beneath 

 the eyes a brown violet spot. Female violet-brown, with the 

 breast and abdomen of a whitish-brown. 



Columba Martinica. Linn. Syst. Nat. 1. 283. 14. Gmel. Syst. 

 Nat. 1. 781. 24. Temm. Pig. Ind. 493. Lath. Ind. Orn. 

 2. 575. 7. 



Columba violacea Martinicana. Eriss. Orn. 1. 129. 27. t. 12. 



/I- 



Columba rufa Cayanensis. Briss. Orn. 1. 131. 29 pi. \1>f. 2. 

 Pigeon violet de la Martinique. Buff. Ois. 2. 525. Buff. PI. 



Enl. 162. 

 Pigeon roux de Cayenne. Buff. Ois. 2. 526. Buff. PI. Enl 



141. 

 Colombi-Galline roux-violet. Le Vaitt. Ois. d'Afrique. 6. pi. 



282. Temm. Pig. (8uo.) p. 400. 



Le Pigeon rouge et jaune. D'Azara. Voy. 4. 131. 321. 

 Martinico Pigeon. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 6l8. 7. A. 



