COLVMBID^—COLVMBINJE: TYPICAL PIGEONS. SCiS 



about as Ljug as lateral without. Contaius the domestic Pigeon, C livia, the St(]ck Dove, 

 G. anas, King Dove, C. pcdumhus (fig. 3M9), ami several other species of both Heuiiapheres. 



Anali/sls of Species. 

 A white band on nape ; metallic scales of nape without borders. 1'ail with light terminal anil dark sub- 

 terminal bars; bill and feet yellow, former blacl;-tipped f,isr,,ita S.'Sg 



No white on head ; no metallic scales on nape ; tail not banded ; bill and feet not yellow . . eriitlii-iiid .540 

 Top of head white; tail not banded ; metallic feathers of nape black-bordered Irnviu', pkala .541 



539. C. fascia'ta. (Lat. fasciata, banded; alluding to the bars on the tail.) Daxd-tailed 

 I'iCiEox. White-collaked PirjEON. Adult (J : Head, neck, and under parts purplish 

 wine-red, fading to white on belly and crissuni, the nape with a distinct white half-collar, the 

 cervix with a patch of metallic, scaly brouze-green featliers. Kump, upper tail-coverts, lining 

 of wings and sides of body slaty-blue. Back and scapulars dark greenish-brown, with con- 

 siderable lustre, changing on the wing-coverts to slaty-blue, these featliers with light edging. 

 Quills blackish-brown, with pale edging along the sinuous portion of the outer webs. Tail 

 bluish-ash, paler beyond the middle on top and mneh paler below, crossed at the middle by a 

 bhu'k bar. Bill yellow, tipped with black ; feet yellow, claws black ; a red ring rcjund eye — 

 these ccdors very conspicuous in life. A large stout species : length 16.00 ; extent about 27.00 ; 

 wing 8.00-8.50, pointed; tail .5.;50-6.00, scpiare; bill 0.75, stout for a pigeon; tarsus 1.00, 

 feathered half-way down in front; middle toe and claw 1.67. Adult ? : Back, wings, and 

 tail, as in <J ; metallic sc;iles and white collar obscure or wanting. Head arid under |)arts 

 much less purplish, the rich hue replaced by a rusty-brown wash on an ashy ground ; yellow 

 of feet and bill obscured; smaller; wing 7.50; tail 4.75. Young <J : Resembling the 9- 

 Kocky Mts. to the PaciOc, U. S., common and of general but irregular distribution, chiefly iu 

 woodland, and especially where acorns, upon which it largely subsists, can be procured; some- 

 times in flocks of great extent. Nest in trees and bushes ; eggs 3, equal-ended, white, 

 glistening, 1.50X1.20. 



540. C. erythri'na. (Gr. epvdplvos, eruthrinos, reddish.) Eed-billed Pigeon. Adult J : 

 Head, neck, and breast dark purplish wine-red, with a slight glaucous overcast, like the bloom 

 on a grape ; no metallic scales on neck. Middle wing-coverts like the head. Middle of back, 

 and some inner wing-quiUs, dark olive-brown with a bronze-green gloss. Greater wing- 

 coverts, lining of wings, sides of body, belly, crissum, and rump, slate-colored, sometimes quite 

 sooty, sometimes more bluish ; tail like rump, but more blackish. Quills of wing dark slate 

 with narrow pale edging. Bill pink for basal half, rest pale horn-color; feet purplish-red, 

 with pale claws ; eye-ring red ; iris orange. Bill and feet drying an undetinable color. Bill 

 remarkable for forward extension of feathers on crdinen, to with half an inch of tip, coveriniT 

 the nasal scale. Length 13.50-14.50 ; extent 3.3.00-25.00 ; wing 7.50-8.00; tail about S.OO: 

 tarsus 0.87 ; middle toe and cla\v 1.50. 9 and young .similar, duller and more dilute in c(dor, 

 the wine-red and slate-color more ashy. Texas, Mexico, Lower California. A dark, richly- 

 colored pigeon, common in the Valley of Lower Eio Grande and southward. Nest in trees and 

 bushes, of twigs, grasses, and roots, well-formed for a pigeon's; egg single, equal-ended, 

 glistening white; averaging 1.54X1-09 ; laid in Apr., May. 



541. C. leucoce'phala. (Gr. Xcv/cor, leucos, white; KecpaX^, kephale, head.) White-ceowned 

 Pigeon. Adult $ ? : Dark slaty, paler below, the quills and tail feathers darkest. Whole 

 top of head pure white; hind neck above rich maroon-broiim, lower down and laterally metallic 

 golden-green, each feather black-edged, giving the appearance of scales. Bill and feet dark 

 carmine or lake red, the tip of the former bluish-white; bill drying dusky with yellowish tip, 

 feet dingy yellowish. Iris yellow or white. Length 13.00-14.00; extent 23.00; wing 7.50; 

 tail 5.75. 9 only duller than <J. West Indies and Florida Keys. Nest in trees and bushes, 

 of twigs, roots, and grasses ; eggs 2, white, 1.40 X 1-05. 



193. ECTOPIS'TES. (Gr. eKToma-rris, elcfopistes, a wanderer: very appropriate.) Passenger 



