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ochraceous-buff or ochraceous. Young: Above deep sepia-brown 
(with an olive cast in some lights), the wing-coverts sometimes 
mixed with rusty; forehead, chest, etc., dull cinnamon-brown; rest 
of under parts brownish buffy ; quills mainly dusky, but inner webs 
broadly edged with rufous, especially toward base. Wing 5.30-6.00, 
tail 3.10-3.60. Hab. Tropical America in general (including West 
Indies), north to Cuba and eastern Mexico (Mirador); accidental at 
Key West, Florida. 
[322.1.] G. montana (Linn.). Ruddy Quail-dove.! 
a’, Quills entirely dusky, on both webs; feathers of neck very distinctly outlined. 
Adult : Top of head slaty or plumbeous, becoming paler (sometimes whitish 
or pale vinaceous) on forehead; hind-neck dull greenish bronze; rest of 
upper parts nearly uniform dark chestnut, slightly glossed with violet- 
purple on back ; chin and throat pale buffy or buffy whitish ; chest vary- 
ing from dull brownish to buffy vinaceous or even grayish brown; rest 
of lower parts buffy, deeper on sides and flanks; length (skin) about 9.50- 
11.00, wing 5.80-6.20, tail 3.50-4.40. Had. Guatemala and southern 
Mexico, north to Mirador. 
G. albifacies ScL. Mexican Quail-dove.? 
Genus STARNCENAS Bonaparte. (Page 211, pl. LXIV., fig. 1.) 
Species. 
Adult: General color plain olive-brown above and dull rusty beneath, the 
breast sometimes with a glaucous-purplish tinge; top of head dull cobalt-blue, bor- 
dered below by black; a wide white stripe running from chin beneath eye to 
occiput; throat and chest black, bordered below by a semicircular line of pure 
white, the feathers of the upper and lateral portions of the black area tipped with 
blue; length 10.75-12.50, wing 5.40-5.70, tail 4.00-4.25. Hab. Cuba and Florida 
MEY Siviccecosesiccene segetanoane 323. S. cyanocephala (Linn.). Blue-headed Quail-dove. 
1 Columba montana Linn., S. N. ed. 10, i. 1758, 163. Geotrygon montana Bonap., Consp. ii. 1854, 72. 
2 Geotrygon albifacies Scu., P. Z. 8., 1858, 98. 
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