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NOKTII AMKIUCAN -mUbti. 



(Jknls MELOFELIA, 1{()nap. 



M,' /ope! ill, lioXAl-. Cdiisi.. II, I>i.L-. IS.Vt, 81. (Type, r'l.himhi /eiicop/cru, L.) 



(ii:N. CiiAit. Siiiiil:!!- lo Zi'iKiida; lliu oiUital ivgioii and loro iiioru iiakuil ; tlio liill 

 loii-fi-; tlu' inidill,,. too loii-.'i- ; tli.^ hiiiduf sliortiT. Tarsal st'iitellio in a sinj!d(> series 

 aiilencdy. Kirsl ,,iiill neai'ly as Idiijj as tl,e seuond and lliinl. A large white'^pateli on 

 wing-cnvei-ts. lower parts light ashy. 



This j;ciius, like nearly all the Xorth Amencaii ones, is represented by 

 but a sinyio species in the United States. 



Melopelia leucoptera, (Linn.) Boxap. 



WHITE-WINOED DOVE. 



Cohimha kiicop/rm, Lixs. Syst. Nat. I, 17.'.8, Itil (.laniaicii). — Gm. Sy.st. Xat. I, 1788, 

 rry. — Waci,. Syst. Av. 18'J7, Columhit, No. 71. — JIcCai.i., I'r. A. N. Sc. I'iiii. W, 

 1818, til. Zniia/a /cucnjilcni, (liiAY, Gen. li. Tiirliir humpterm, (iii.ssi:, |$. ,fam! 

 1847, -Mi. Mi/oj)f/iii leucuji/eni, I'xiXAl'. Consp. Av. II, 18.")-1, 81.-^ MaiiM), liird.s N. 

 Am. 18.-)8, (503. — l{Kiriii;N-li. llandli. Taub. 2-2, tab. 234, f. 1417; 2.'..-), f. 28()!». — 

 Maikii. p. a. N. .S. 1803, IWI.—ViHH'KK, Orn. Cal. I, 1870, 51'.. ! CuLba hmlo/l, 

 Om. .'<. N. I, 1788, 777. Ciihiiiiba tntiliuitti, Ail>. liirds Am. VII, 1843, 352, pi. 

 ccL'fXevi. 



Sp. CitAi!. General color fine a.^liy, with an olivaceous cast on upper surface, the middle 

 tail-leathers being decidedly brownish ; secondaries and prinuiries blackish. IJeneath paler 



ashy, with a light drab cast anteriorly 

 (lightest on the throat), the .ibdonien 

 and sides with a line light-bluish cast; 

 anal i-egion white crissuni more 

 bluish. Occiput with a. pin'pli.sh 

 tinge. A spot of lilaek, with steel- 

 blue reflection below the ears ; a 

 large patch of white on the wing, 

 covering the lower covert.s from the 

 elbow to the seeon<lai les ; .^iccondaries 

 margined terminally with white. 

 Terminal fourth of tail-feathers, 

 except the two medial, ashy-white, 

 preceded by a snliteiminal blackish 

 band. Mule with faint purplish- 

 golden reflections on the sides of 

 the nock, and the throat and jugu- 

 lum inclining to ochrey-vinaeeous; 

 the occiput and nape decided p\irplish. Female with this scarcely apparent. Male: 

 M-ing, G.80; tail, 5.10; culmen, .84; tarsn.«, 1.00; middle toe, 1.10. Female slightly 

 smaller. 



ILu!. Southern border of United States, from Tex.is to Arizona and Lower California ; 

 Jlexico, south to Costa Iliea, Cuba and Jamaica, Oaxaca, highlands (Set,. 1858, 305) ; 

 Cordova (1850, 309) ; Jamaica (Gossk, B. J. 304) ; Honduras (Taylor, Ibis, II,' 227) \ 



Mditpdia leucoptera, Iioii:i|>. 



