﻿P I G E O N. 659 



Cokmba pafferina, Lin. Syll. i. p. 28c. N° 34. — Scop. ana. p. 126. $9. 



N°j8 3 . + GROUND T, 



La petite Tourterelle d'Amerique, Brlf. orn. i. p. 113. N° .19. pi. 9. f. 1. 

 Le Cocotzin, Buf. oif. ii. p. 559. 

 •La petite Tourterelle de St. Domingue, PI. enl. 24.$. f. 1. (the malt.) 



de la Martinique, PI. enl. 243. f. 2. (the female.) 



Turtur indicus feu Cocotzin, &c. Rail Syn. p. 61. 62. N° 4. 5. 6. 



Indian Turtle, Cocotzin, or Leaft Barbadoes Turtle, Will. orn. p. 184. 



pi. 36. 

 Ground Dove, Catejb. i. pi. 26. (female.) — Sloan. Jam. ii. p. 30$. N° 32. 



t. 261. f. 1.— Brown. Jam. p. 469.— ,/fnf?. Z«/. 



r F , H I S is a fmall fpecies,, not much exceeding the Crefted Lark Description. 



in fize : the length is fix inches and a quarter. The bill is 

 pale red, with a blackifh tip, and is feven lines long: the irides 

 orange : the upper parts of the head and neck are afh-colour : the 

 back, Turnp, and upper tail coverts, the fame, but deeper : the 

 forehead, throat, fore part of the neck, breaft, fides, the belly, 

 and under tail coverts, vinaceous, fpotted with brown on the fore 

 part of the neck and breaft ; the middle of each feather being of 

 this laft colour: fome of the wing coverts are of a deep afh- 

 colour j others vinaceous, -marked with glofiy green fpots ; be- 

 neath rufous : the quills are likewife rufous, but on the outer 

 edges and tips blackifh : the two middle tail feathers are deep 

 afh-colour .; the others blackifh : the legs red : the claws 

 blackifh. 



The female differs from the male merely in being every way Femals. 

 more dilute in colour. 



Thefe inhabit the warmer parts of America, and the iflands Place akb 

 contiguous thereto j chiefly between the tropics, though fome- Manners. 



4 P 2 times 



