216 NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 
a’. Larger wing-coverts pale brownish gray, like rest of coverts; belly and lower 
tail-coverts buff; breast very indistinctly squamated; wing 3.75 or less, tail 
more than 4.00. 
Adult: Lower parts pale grayish vinaceous anteriorly (nearly white on 
chin), passing into buff on belly, flanks, and lower tail-coverts; chin, 
throat, and upper part of chest immaculate, but feathers of other por- 
tions tipped with blackish, these bars broadest on flanks; upper parts, 
including all the wing-coverts, grayish brown, each feather tipped with 
a crescentic bar of blackish. Young: Similar to adult, but less pinkish 
beneath, and grayish brown of upper parts somewhat mottled by occa- 
sional whitish tips to feathers. Length about 8.00, wing 3.70-3.75, tail 
4.00-4.40. Hogs .83 x .65. Hab. Mexico and Guatemala, north to 
southern border of United States (southern Texas to southern Arizona.) 
321. S. inca (Lzss.). Inca Dove. 
Gznus GEOTRYGON Gossz. (Page 210, pl. LXIV., fig. 2.) 
Species. 
Common CHaracters.—Upper parts mainly uniform chestnut, the back (some- 
times other portions also) with more or less of metallic gloss; lower parts plain 
dull whitish, ochraceous or buffy, deepening into brownish or vinaceous on chest. 
a. Quills rufous, on both webs, in adult (partly rufous in young); feathers of neck 
blended. 
o. Belly and under tail-coverts whitish, or very pale buffy; back brilliantly 
metallic. 
Adult: Forehead and lores dull chestnut; rest of upper head with 
hind-neck dull metallic bronzy green, changing to purplish; back 
brilliantly metallic reddish purple; rest of upper parts mainly dull 
chestnut, more or less glossed with metallic purple, especially on 
rump and lesser wing-coverts; a broad whitish malar stripe, extend- 
ing back to occiput, across ear-coverts; beneath this a narrower and 
less distinct stripe of brown or chestnut; anterior lower parts pale 
vinaceous, becoming whitish on chin and throat; posterior lower 
parts dull white, or very pale buffy ; length 10.60-11.75, wing 6.00- 
6.50, tail 4.20-5.75. Hab. Haiti, Cuba, Bahamas, and Florida Keys. 
322. G. chrysia Bonar.’ Key West Quail-dove. 
b*. Belly and under tail-coverts deep ochraceous; back not brilliantly metallic. 
Adult: Above deep purplish chestnut, with metallic reflections (of 
purplish red) only in certain lights ; chin and throat buffy whitish ; 
bordered along each side by a dark purplish chestnut stripe, with a 
buffy malar stripe above it—neither very sharply defined; fore-neck 
and chest vinaceous or vinaceous-brown; rest of lower parts deep 
1 Geotrygon chrysia Bonap., Consp. ii, 1854, 72. 
