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COLUMBID^'E, PIGEONS. GEN. 1G9, 170, 171, 172. 



of food throughout all parts of North America ; wonderfully abundant at 

 times in particular districts" (Audubon) ; chiefly, however, temperate 

 Eastern North America; eminently gregarious. Wils., v, 102, pi. 44; 

 NuTT., i, 629; Aud., v, 25, pi. 285; Bd., 600 migeatoeius. 



<? \ 169. Genus ZENJEDURA Bonaparte. 



Carolina Dove. Brownish-olive, glossed with blue on the crown and 

 nape; below purplish-red, becoming tawn^'-white on the vent and crissum ; 



neck metallic golden ; a velvety black 

 spot on the auriculars, and others on 

 the wing coverts and scapulars ; middle 

 tail feathers like the back, the rest 

 ashy-blue at base, then crossed by a 

 black bar, then white or ashy-white ; 

 bill very slender, black ; feet carmine ; 

 9 and young differ as in the wild 

 pigeon; 11-13; wing 5-6; tail 6-7, 

 shaped as in the wild pigeon, but of 

 14 feathers; circnmorbital space naked. Temperate North America, very 

 abundant. Wils., v, 91, pi. 43; Nutt., i, 626; Aud., v, 36, pi. 286; 



Bd., 604 CAEOLINENSIS. 



Pin. 146. Carolina Dove. 



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170. Genus ZEN^DA Bonaparte. 



Zenaida Dove. Olive-gray with a reddish tinge, crown and under parts 

 vinaceous-red, sides and axillars bluish ; a velvety black auricular spot, and 

 others on the wing coverts and tertiaries ; secondaries tipped with white ; 

 neck with metallic lustre ; middle tail feathers like the back, others bluish 

 with whiter tips, a black band intervening ; 10 ; wing 6 ; tail 4, rounded. 

 West Indies and Florida Keys. Bonap., Am. Orn. ii, pi. 15, f. 2; Nutt., 

 i, 625; Aud., v, 1, pi. 281; Bd., 602 amabilis. 



/V-, 171. Genus MELOPELEIA Bonaparte. 



■ 1V7dte-ivinffed Dove. A broad oblique white bar on the wing, formed by 

 ends of greater coverts and alula. Tail feathers, except the middle, broadly 

 tipi)ed with white ; general plumage resembling that of the Carolina dove ; 

 11-12; wing 6-6J ; tail 5, rounded. Southwestern U. S. and southward. 

 Oolumba trudeaui AvD., y'u, 352, p\. 4:96. Bd., 603. . . leucopteea. 



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172. Genus CHAM^PELEIA Swainson. 



Ground Dove. Grayish-olive, glossed with blue on the hind head and 

 neck, most feathers of the fore parts with darker edges, those of the breast 

 with dusky centres; forehead, sides of head and neck, lesser wing coverts 

 and under parts purplish-red of variable intensitjs paler or grayish in the $ ; 

 under surface of wings orange-brown or chestnut, this color suffusing tlie 

 quills to a great extent, upper surface sprinkled with lustrous steel-blue 



