GROUND GOURA. 133 



NEAR ten inches in length : the irides are red : 

 the head, neck, and upper parts of the body, are 

 deep violaceous-chesnut : the breast is vinaceous : 

 the rest of the under parts of the body are rufous, 

 varying in tint : quills fuscous on their outer webs, 

 rufous on their inner: tail-feathers dusky, with 

 rufous margins : beneath the eyes a spot of a 

 brownish violet-colour: the legs red, beak the 

 same: claws dusky: female with the breast and 

 abdomen of a brownish-white : the rest of the 

 body a violet-brown. Inhabits Martinique and the 

 warmer parts of America. 



GROUND GOURA. 

 (Goura Passerina.) 



Go. corpore cinereo-fusco, subtus violaceo, pectorc nigricantc- 

 squamatOj remigibtis rufis margine exteriore apiceque nigrican* 

 tibus, alls punctis chalybeis y rectricibus intermediis dnereis, re 

 liquis nigricantibus. 



Goura with the body above of a cinereous brown, beneath violet; 

 the breast with dusky scales ; the quills rufous, their outer 

 edges and tips dusky; the wings with steel-coloured spots; the 

 middle tail-feathers ash-coloured, the rest dusky. 



Columba Passerina. Temm. Pig. Ind. 496. Linn. Syst. Nat. 

 1. 285. 34. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 787. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 

 611. fy.Wils. Amer. Orn. 6. p. 15. 



Turtur parvus Araericanus. Brus. Om. 1. 113. 19. pL .f. 1. 



Le Cocotzin. Buf. Ois. 2. 559. 



