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66. Tail without a darker subterminal band. 

 c. Tail dusky, not paler terminally. 

 d. Tail darkening terminally; smaller wing-coverts tinged or intermixed with 



reddish brown Chloroenas flavirostris flavirostris, young (p. 301). 



dd. Tail not darkening terminally; smaller wing-coverts without tinge or inter- 

 mixture of reddish brown <* Chlorrenas inornata, young (p. 297). 



cc. Tail brownish gray, paler and more brownish terminally. 



Cttloroenas rufina pallidicrissa, young (p. 306). 



CHLORffiNAS FASCIATA FASCIATA (Say). 

 BANS-TAILED PIGEON. 



Adult male. — Head purplish drab or light purplish drab, becoming 

 paler and usually more grayish on malar region and throat, which 

 are sometimes distinctly more grayish (light quaker drab), in contrast 

 with color of pileum; across nape or upper hindneck a bar of white; 

 below this, the whole hindneck metallic bronze or greenish bronze, the 

 feathers with sharp outlines, producing a somewhat squamate effect; 

 back, scapulars, and anterior lesser wing-coverts grayish brown (nearly 

 hair brown, but varying considerably in depth), very faintly glossed, in 

 certain lights, with bronzy; rump and upper tail-coverts neutral gray 

 or light neutral gray, sometimes a little more brownish; proximal 

 half, or more, of tail neutral gray, the apical half lighter and more 

 brownish gray (sometimes drab-gray), with a more or less distinct, 

 more or less interrupted, band of darker gray to dull black across the 

 middle portion, separating the darker and lighter gray areas; poste- 

 rior lesser wing-coverts, middle coverts, and greater coverts brownish 

 gray, the greater coverts narrowly edged with white; proximal sec- 

 ondarias similar but more brownish, without distinct whitish edg- 

 ings, the distal ones much darker, distinctly though narrowly edged 

 with whitish; primaries, primary coverts, and alulsB dusky, the first 

 narrowly edged distally with white; under parts purple-drab to light 

 purple-drab, usually somewhat clearer or more vinaceous on under 

 parts of body and more grayish on throat, the abdomen (at least the 

 lower portion), anal region, and under tail-coverts white; axillars 

 and under wing-coverts pale neutral gray; bill yellow, the apical 

 third (approximately) black; iris pale yellow next to pupil with outer 

 ring of pink or lilac; eyelids red; legs and feet clear cadmium yellow; 

 length (skins), 342-400 (363); wing, 195-221 (208.6); tail, 122-151 

 (139.4); culmen, 16-20 (18); tarsus, 24.5-29.5 (27); middle toe, 

 27.5-34 (30.4). 6 



Adult female. — Similar to the adult male, but coloration duller, 

 the upper parts more brownish, the head and under parts less 

 vinaceous; length (skins), 334-395 (338); wing, 193-218 (204); tail, 



a Having but one specimen of each of these two species, and that of C. inornata 

 much younger than the other, I can not be sure that the differences given above are 

 constant. 



6 Thirty-eight specimens. 



