390 ZEN-SDUKA CAE0LINENSI8, CAROLINA DOVE 



on bushes. The principal bashes of some parts of the Territory are 

 cacti and other thorny growths, so terribly ])rickly that snakes can 

 scarcely climb them; indeed I have seen nests in "cholla" bnslics, 

 where it seemed scarcely possible for even a bird to alight to build with- 

 out wounding its feet, there being absolutely not a smooth .spot on the 

 whole shrub. In the wooded and mountainous parts of the Territory 

 the nidification varies. Though resident in the Territory at large, the 

 Dove is only a summer sojourner in these higher i)arts, where it arrives 

 the latter part of April and remains until the middle of October. Its 

 coming marks th(? opening of sprin;^', when the silence of the vast jiine 

 tracts, scarcely broken before but by the dismal caw of the Raven or the 

 harsh notes of the Jays and Woodpeckers, is now enlivened by the twit- 

 tering of Swallows and the agreeable songs of the, birds, as v>ell as by 

 the cooing of the Dove, which resounds in plaintive, measured cadence, 

 while the gentle bird is wooing his mate. 



The Ground Dove, a very small and delicate species of the southern 

 portions of the United States, has not been known to penetrate to any 

 portion of the Missouri region. It apjtears to be, in some degree, a bird 

 of our southern coa.it regions, so rarely, in the United States at h^ast, 

 does it stray far inland. Its usual range is limited by the Carolinas, 

 but I have a record of the capture of a specimen, many years, ago, at 

 Washington, D. (J. Audubon states that a "s<iirch for them a hundred 

 miles inland would in all proljability prove fruitless;" but against this 

 statement I tind pencilled, in a co])y of his work in the State Library at 

 f olumbia, South Carolina, a note to the effect that one was shot on the 

 C(jn;i,'aree River, not far from Columbia, in December, 18.39. The species 

 oeenrs in Southern Arizona, but not, so far as I am aware, in the regiott 

 of Fort Whipple. It is also abundant at Cape Saint Lucas, and extends 

 northward into Southern California. The nidification is not peculiar. 

 The eggs are two, seven-eighths long by two-thirds broad. The syno- 

 nymy of the species is subjoined.* 



' CiiAM^PELiA PA88K11INA, (lAnnceus) Swaingom. 



Coluniba pasgcrina, LiNX., Syst. Nat. i, 17G6, 285 (Sloane, .J.-irn. ii, .'iO.'), jil. 261, fig. '■>; 

 Gates., i, 26 ; JJ.'ii.s.',. i, IKi, pi. 9, fig. 1}.— G.M., .Synt. Xat. i, 178H, 7r'7.— La'i II., I. 

 Oin. ii, 179U, 611.— Wn.s., Am. Orn. iv, IHU, 1.',, ],l. 4»;, fig. -.— Wagl., .S.yst. Av. 

 Oihiniha, Xo. SH.— Ul'., .Syn. I>r28, X20,— XiTT., lliuj. i, ly-;2, a;r,.—Avi>., Orn. 

 Biog. ii, ]ri:',4.471; v, IH'ib, .5.jft ; pl. l^'2; .Syn. 18:i'J, 192: B. Aui. v, 1H42, 19, pL 

 2S-.;,— .Si:.M.., OIV. Vi't. Akad. Forb. 18(i'J, 5HH (Saint BartholoruDw). 



CoJiimba (Goiira) pameriiia, Bp., 01)8. Wils. l'<2.'j, l^il. 



Chv:niepi:lia pamierina, Sw,, Zool. .Jonm. iii, 1827, ;!G1.— GfiAY, Hand-list, No. 'JSM. 



CI.KnujKlia jiaxKin-ina, Sw., Classif. Bird.s, ii, 1^37, '.'A'J. 



Ckameptlin pcumeriiiu, Bp., List, l^'-W, 41. 



Clianuepelia jiannrrina, Oiia Y, lfc41. — 0<jhSE, B. .Jam. 1846, 311 . — Bp., CoDSp. ii, 18.'*4, 77. — 

 C.Mi., J. f. O. iv, 18.^0 (Cuba).— 8c;,., P. Z. S. lc.'.7, UOr, (Xalapa); 1^:.'/J, ;!91 

 (Oaxaca) ; l'-i;4, Mr (Mexico City; ; lliis, i, 18.'>9, 2-3 (Onatoniala). — Bij., B. X. 

 A. 1-.'.'-, 60(;— Cor,-!;.., & Pp.ext., .Smiths. Jiep. 18r;i, 414.— Maiicii, Pr. PhiU. 

 Acad. I8f;3, 302 (.Jamaica).— Cor.E.S, Pr. Phila. Acad. 1866, 93 (Sontlii-ni Ari- 

 zona). — Bi'.vant, Pi-. Host. Sue. 1800 (Port.) KicoJ. — Lawii., Ann. Lye. N. Y. ix, 

 134 (Co.sta Rica) ; ix, 207 (Yncatan j.— Coop., B, Cal. i, 1''70, .OlH.— CouKs, Key, 

 l'^72, 22!;.-B. B. & K., X. A. B. iii, l'^74, 389. pi. .'.", fij;. 6. 



Cliarnti^eUa panmriiKi var. puMeyjcnh, Bd., Pr. Phila. Acad. 18.')9, 30."j.— Coop., B. Cal. i, 

 1870, 517 (Cape Sairjt Lncas). 



Piirgitmnas pameiinnn, Rei<;h., Colurnljariie. 



p'lr'htera pahurlna, .SCHL., il. P.-B. x, 1873, 134. 



Oihiniha minuta, LlNX., Sy,->t. Xat. i, nOO, 2-^5 (Br:i*s., i, 116, pi. 8, fig. 2). — G.M., .Sy.st. 

 Xaf. 1788, 7'^^.— L.vni., Ind. Orn. ii, 1790, 612 (P«s«tr;«e '/'»(•(/«, Gen. Syn. i v, 660.) 



f'limn'f.pdia granatina et albicitla, hi:, Consp. Av. ii, 1854, 77 (Bogota and Carthagena). 



I'llrLnticnw) albivitla, Reich., Colmubariaj. 



Bab. — Sonthem United States. X'urth to abont 35'--. Southward throngh Mexico 

 and Central America to Northern Sauth America. Several West India Islands. 



