PIGEONS AND DOVKS. 



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OIIDEB COLUMB^. PIGEONS AND DOVES. 



Family Columbid^. Pigeons and Doves, 



About one third of tlic three hundred known .species of Pigeons 

 and Doves are found in tlie New World, but (jf tliis number only twelve 

 sjiecies occur in North America. The birds of this family dilTer widely 

 in their choice of haunts. Some are strictly arboreal, others as st rictly 

 terrestrial. Some seek the forests and others prefer fields and clear- 

 ings. Some nest in colonies, others in isolated pairs, but most species 

 are found in flocks of greater or less size after the breeding season. 

 When drinking, they do not raise the head as other birds do to swal- 

 low, but keep the bill immersed until the draught is linislied. The 

 young are born naked and are fed by regurgitatiou. 



KEY To THE SPECIES, 



A. Tuil widely tipped with wliite or grayish wliito. 



a. Tail poiiiU'd. 



a'. Buck '>rruini> liluisli slat('-oolor 3ir). rAf<sEN(iEit Pkieojt. 



«". Hack olive grayisli lirowu 31(5. Moiuxi.Nci 1)()ve. 



b. Tall sipiare 317. Zenaika Dovk. 



a. Tail not tipiu'd with wliitc 



a. L'ppcr parts dark slati'-oolor 314. Wmite-ckownei) I'kjeox. 



b. Upper parts rufous with purplish refleetions. 



i'. Line below the eye and l)elly white or whitish . 3'2i'. Qiaii. Dove. 

 6*. Line under the eye and belly butl'y oehraeeous. 



'6'^2A. RiDDV QiAii, Dove. 



c. L'pper parts crayisli olivo-lirown. 



c>. Crown l)luc, a wliite line below the eye. 



323. BLfE-HEAOEO QUAII. DoVE. 



r'. Crown pinkisli or like the hack 3^0. (iuoi xu Dove. 



314* Columba> leucocephaUt Lim). WuiTE-rRow.vEn Pioeon. 



Ad. S. — Rich slate-color; crown wliite; liaek of the head ]uiri>lisli elu'Sfinit ; 

 back of the neek with trreenish rcllectioiis, each feather with a black iionler. 

 AiL 9. — Similar, but paler; crown asliy, less pur])lish chestnut: back and 

 sides of tlie n;'ck brownisli ash witli metallic reflections and black margins. 

 L., 13m0; W.,7-'>0; T., rr\n; P,., -TO. 



/i'lini/e. — Florida Keys, We.st Indies, and coast of Central .Vnierica. 



Ked, in low bushes. /;;7.'AS tw<j. l^ossv wliite, I'll x l-n-J. 



This Pigeon is locally common in some of the keys ofT southern 

 Florida, and has been known to occur on the mainland. According 

 to Mr. J. W. Atkins (Auk, vi, 1889, p. 24G), it arrives at Key West early 

 in May and remains until November. 



816. Ectopistes migratorius (Linn.). Fassexqer Pioeon. (Sco 

 Fig. 28.) Ad. 6. — Upper parts rich bluish slate-color ; back and sides of the 



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