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pale buffy on posterior lower parts ; metallic gloss on neck less distinct, 

 the black ear-spot smaller and duller. Young : Much duller in color 

 than adult female, with the tints more brownish; feathers of upper 

 parts, head, neck, and chest, with distinct paler tips or terminal margins ; 

 no metallic gloss on neck, or distinct black spot beneath ears. Length 

 11.00-13.00, wing 5.70-6.10, tail 5.70-6.50, culmen .50-.55. Mst vari- 

 ously situated ; Eggs 1.10 X -84. Hab. Whole of temperate North Amer- 

 ica, north to Canada, southern Maine, etc., south to Panama and West 



Indies 316. Z. macroura (Linn.). Mourning Dove. 



b 2 . Lower tail-coverts cinnamon-color. Young (adult unknown) : Much darker 

 in color than Z. macroura, the entire lower parts, including under tail- 

 coverts, uniform deep rusty cinnamon. Wing about 6.00, tail 4.80-5.00 

 culmen .80. Bab. Socorro Island, western Mexico. 



Z. graysoni Lawk. Socorro Dove. 1 

 a 1 . Outer webs of secondaries broadly tipped with white. 



Adult male (female and young unknown) : Entire lower parts uniform deep 

 vinaceous, somewhat paler on lower tail-coverts. (Plumage exactly that 

 of paler-colored specimens of Zenaida -amabilis.) Wing 6.00, tail 4.80. 

 Hab. Yucatan (Merida). 



Z. yucatanensis Liws. Yucatan Dove. 2 



Genus ZENAIDA Bonaparte. (Page 210, pi. LXIIL, fig. 3.) 



Species. 



Common Characters. — Above olive-brown or russet, the tertials and adjacent 

 wing-coverts or scapulars spotted with black ; head, neck, and breast cinnamon-color, 

 relieved by a spot or streak of blue-black beneath ear-coverts and reflections of 

 changeable metallic purple on sides of neck ; tail-feathers (except middle pair) 

 plumbeous or slaty, broadly tipped with a lighter shade of the same, and crossed by 

 a subterminal band of black ; outer webs of secondaries broadly tipped with white. 



a 1 . Under tail-coverts deep cinnamon ; head and neck purplish cinnamon or deep 

 vinaceous; length 10.00-11.50, wing 6.00-6.25, tail 4.00-4.40. Eggs 1.19 X 

 .92. Hab. Florida Keys, Bahamas, Cuba, Jamaica, Porto Eico, Santa Cruz, 

 Sombrero, and coast of Yucatan.. 317. Z. zenaida (Bonap.). Zenaida Dove. 



a 2 . Under tail-coverts whitish, usually slightly tinged with vinaceous or grayish ; 

 head and neck (especially the latter) cinnamon-rufous ; a little larger than 

 Z. zenaida. Hab. Lesser Antilles (St. Bartholomew, St. Vincent, Barbuda, 

 Antigua, Guadeloupe, Dominica, Martinique, Grenada, St. Eustatius, etc.). 



Z. castanea (Waql.). Antillean Dove. 3 



> Zenaidnra graysoni Lawr., Ann. Lye. N. Y. 1871, 17. 



2 Zenaidura yucatanensis Lawr., Ann. Lye. N. Y. ix. 1869, 208. (Perhaps a hybrid between Z. macroura 

 and Zenaida amabilis.) 



3 Columba castanea Wagl., Syst. Av. 1827, 289, Colnmba, Sp. 77. {Z. martinicana Bp. et Auct., but not 

 Columba martinica Link.) 



