PIGEON. 39 



Among Mr. Dent's collection of drawings is one, probably the 

 same. It is a small species, between five and six inches long. Bill 

 black; head, throat, and hind part of the neck, fine pale cinereous 

 blue; all the breast white, from thence deep chocolate ; back, wings, 

 and tail, fine deep chestnut ; quills dusky; legs red. 



42— BLACK-SPOTTED PIGEON. 



Columba naevia, Tnd. Orn. ii. 601. Gm. Lin. i. 777. 

 Oenas Mexicana, tei. 100. Id. 8vo. 23. Buf. ii. 525. 

 Hoilotl, Rail, 63. 12. 

 Black-spotted Pigeon, Gen. Si/n. iv. 633. 



SIZE of a Common Pigeon. Bill black ; head, neck, and upper 

 parts, brown, spotted with black ; breast, belly, and thighs, pale 

 fulvous; under tail coverts, and under the wings, cinereous; quills 

 and tail brown ; legs red. 



Inhabits Mexico, found in the woods in the colder parts. 



43.— WHITE-SHOULDERED PIGEON. 



Columba Hoilotl, Ind. Orn.u. 601. Gm. Lin. i. 777. Rail, 63. 13. Buf. ii. 525. 



■ montana Mexicana, Brls. i. 130. Id. 8vo. 32. 

 White-shouldered Pigeon, Gen. Syn. iv. 654. 



SIZE of the Roman Pigeon. Bill and legs scarlet; plumage of 

 a purplish rufous colour, except the lesser wing coverts, which are 

 white. 



Inhabits Mexico ; some are pale fulvous, with the lesser wing 

 coverts white, as in the others ; bill and legs reddish. 



