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24. Zenaida vinaceo-rufa. 



Wine-coloured Dove. 



Zenaida vinaceo-rufa Riclgw. Proe. U.S. Nat. Mus. vii. p. 17G. 1.884 

 (Curasao) ; Salvacl. Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxi. p. 389, 1893 (Quonga, 

 Takutu E.. Annai) ; Brabouinie & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. iO, 

 no. 164, 1912. 



Adult male. Fore part of head, sides o£ face, throat, and entire 

 under surface, including the under tail-coverts, dull vinous ; 

 nape, hind-neck, and sides of the latter grey with coppery- 

 reflections ; back and scapulars earth-brown with black ovate 

 spots on the outer webs of the scapulars and innermost second- 

 aries, which are also earth-brown ; middle tail-feathers like the 

 back, more or less tinged with grey, and a subapical black band ; 

 outer tail-feathers for the most part rufous, with grey at the 

 base ; marginal upper wing-coverts grey ; bastard-wing, primarj-- 

 coverts, and quills slate-grey, darker towards the tips, where they 

 are edged with pale brown like the edges of the outer webs ; 

 a dark elongated spot behind the eye and a narrow black line 

 on the hinder cheeks. " Bill black ; feet red ; iris black " 

 ( Wldtely). 



Total length 203 mm., culmen 17, wing 129, tail ^2, tarsus 19. 



The bird described was collected at the Upper Takutu Mountains. 



According to Count Salvadori, the female is duller, the fore- 

 head, sides of the head, and lower fore-neck tinged with })alo 

 brown with no vinous colour. 



Breeding-season. Unknow^n in British Guiana. 



Nest. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



E(j(js. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



lianye in British Guiana. Upper Takutu Mountains {MrCoinwU 

 collection) ; Annai, Quonga {Wldtely). 



E.rtralimital lianfje. Curarao and Margarita Islands, Venezuehi. 



IJabits. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Genus COLUMBINA Splx. 

 Cohimhinn Spix, Av. Bras. ii. p. .'57, 1825, Type ('. n/rrpi/ans Spix. 



This genus is characterized by lia\iiig the (ail longer than half 

 of thr> wing, tlie first prirjiai-v-(|uill not abiuptly att(>nuat('d at (lie 

 tip. and t'le tail roundc i. 



