2 1 8 GROUND DOVE. 



of a fine slate ; primaries, brown black, and, as well as the 

 secondaries, barred with, dusky ; scapulars, spotted with white 

 and brown, which is not seen unless the plumage be separated 

 by the hand ; all the feathers above are shafted with black ; 

 tail, very slightly forked, of an ash colour, faintly tinged with 

 brown, crossed with four broad bands of black, and tipt with 

 white ; tail, three inches longer than the wings ; over the eye 

 extends a streak of dull white ; chin, white, mixed with fine 

 black hairs ; breast and belly beautifully variegated with 

 ferruginous and transverse spots of white ; femorals, the 

 same ; vent, pure white ; legs, long, very slender, and of 

 a rich orange yellow ; claws, black, large, and remarkably 

 sharp ; lining of the wing, thickly marked with heart-shaped 

 spots of black. This bird, on dissection, was found to be 

 a male. In the month of February, I shot another indivi- 

 dual of this species, near Hampton, in Virginia, which agreed 

 almost exactly with the present. 



GROUND DOVE. (Columba passerina.) 



PLATE XLVI.— Fig. 2, Male ; Fig. 3, Female. 



Linn. Si/st. 285.— Sloan. Jam. ii. 305. — Le Cocotzin, Fe?~nandez, 24. — Buff. ii. 

 559, PL enl. 243.— Turt. Syst. 478.— Columba minuta, Ibid. p. 479.— Arct. 

 Zool. p. 328, No. 191.— Calesb. i. 26.— La Petite Tourterelle d'Amerique, 

 Briss. i. 113, pi. 9, fig. 1. 



CH.EMEPELIA PASSERINA.— Swainson. 



Chremepelia, Swain. N. Groups, Zool. Journ. No. XL p. 361.— Columba passerina 

 (sub-genus Goura), Bonap. Synop. p. 120. 



This is one of the least of the pigeon tribe, whose timid and 

 innocent appearance forms a very striking contrast to the 

 ferocity of the bird-killer of the same plate. Such as they are 

 iu nature, such I have endeavoured faithfully to represent 

 them. I have been the more particular with this minute 

 species, as no correct figure of it exists in any former work 

 with which I am acquainted. 



The ground dove is a native of North and South Carolina, 



