ORDER GALLINiE. 15 



tarsi, feathered ; wing, inside, black. South America. 

 Length, seven inches. 



Ground Dove. Lath. Col. Passerina. Enl. 243, 

 2. Gates. 26. 



Body, above, ashy-brown ; beneath, violet-blackish, 

 scaled ; quills, red, blackish-edged, and tipt ; wing, 

 with steel coloured spots ; tail, middle, ash, sides, 

 blackish. South America. Length, six inches. 



Passerine Pigeon. Lath. Col. Minuta. Enl. 243. 



Body, above, pale-brown ; throat and chest, pale- 

 violet ; bent of wing, with three or four violet spots ; 

 end of wing, with six spots ; quill, brown, rufous 

 edged ; tail, blue-black, with a timud band, two outer 

 white tipt. South America. Length, 6 inches. 



Hottentot Pigeon. Lath. H. Col. Hottentotta. Tem. 

 Vaill. 283. 



Rufous ; forehead and throat, white ; neck and chest, 

 vinaceous-ash, white and black mooned ; belly and 

 abdomen, vinaceous ; feather above, rufous ; beneath, 

 ashy. South Africa. 



Col. Cohacola. Spix. t. 7- f. 1.* 



Above and beneath, cinnamon ; head, lead-coloured ; 

 quills, black ; wings above, with eight or nine black 

 streaks ; tail, shortish, equal ; above, cinnamon ; be- 

 neath, black. Length, six inches. Brazils. ^ 



Col. Griseola. Spix. 75. 



Brownish-grey ; head and chest, scaled ; quills, rufous, 

 brown edged ; tail, equal, short, brownish-grey ; 

 beneath, black ; outermost feathers, white tipt ; wing- 



• MAPicui Pig<?oK, Lath. Co/Mwj5aPicM«, Tern, from Azara,n. 324. South 

 America. Length, seven inches. 



