Bronze- Wings. 



157 



Red Ground Dove (Geotrygon montana). 



" Female. — Upper parts dark olive, with a golden lustre ; forehead 

 and cheeks rufous, the latter bounded below by an olive band ; 

 throat whitish-rufous ; lower throat and breast olive-brown ; lower 

 breast and abdomen buffy, with a more or less distinct brown tinge ; 

 quills brown, with the base of the inner webs cinnamon ; tail olive- 

 brown above, with a rufous tinge towards the base of the feathers, 

 very distinct on the under surface of the tail " (Salvadori, Catalogue 

 of Birds, vol. xxi. p. 569). 



Moustache Ground Dove {Geotrygon mystacea). 



Count Salvadori on±y describes the male, yet only indicates a 

 sexed female in the Collection. It is probable that the male is 

 larger and brighter in colouring than the female. 



Mountain Witch Ground Dove (Geotrygon cristata). 

 Only a male is sexed and described in the Museum Catalogue. 



Chapter XXXI. 



GROUND AND NICOBAR PIGEONS. 



The Pigeons which follow, although also referred in the Museum 

 Catalogue of Birds to the Geotrygonince, are so utterly dissimilar, 

 both in appearance and habits, to those previously noted, that I 

 think it better to place them in another chapter. 



Bleeding-heart Pigeon 

 (Phlogcenas luzonica). 



The female is distinctly smaller 

 than the male, and has a more 

 slender bill when viewed in profile ; 

 the forehead is much less white, 

 more bluish-ash than in the male, 

 and the blood-stain on the breast 

 covers only half the extent of that 

 in her mate ; the flank feathers are 

 slightly browner, and show ill- 

 defined, darker transverse bars, 

 owing to the tips of the fringes 

 being more evidently browner. The 

 sexes have been described as similar, only the female a little smaller; 

 but careful comparison will show that in this, as in other species so 

 described, real colour differences do exist 



THE BLEEDING-HEAIIT PIGEON. 

 {From a Photograph by Miss Alderson.) 



