152 MARTINICO GOURA. 



quois: it has a very short flight, with frequent 

 starts : it obtains its nourishment on the ground 

 during the daytime, and towards night seeks shelter 

 in 'deep thickets, close to the ground. 



MAliTlNICO GOURA. 



(Goiira Martinica.) 



Go. subviolacea,pectore vinaceo, ventre nbdomineque riifescentlbus^ 

 remigibiis Juscis interne riifescentibus, macula sub oculis Juscu- 

 tiolacea. (Femina, violaceo-Jusca, pedtore dbdomineque albo' 

 Juscescentibiis.) 



Subviolet Goura, with the breast vmaceous 5 the belly and ab- 

 domen rufescent ; the quills brown, within reddish j beneath 

 the eyes a brown violet spot. Female violet-brown, with the 

 breast and abdomen of a whitish-brown. 



Columba Martinica. Linn. Syst, Nat. 1. 283. 14. — Gmel. Syst. 

 Nat. 1. 781. 2A.—Tem7n. Pig. Ind. Ag3.—Lath. Ind, Orn. 

 2. 575. 7. 



Columba violacea Martinicana. Briss. Orn. 1. 12Q. 27- t» 12. 



/I. 



Columba rufa Cayanensis. Briss. Orn. 1. 131. 29. pi. 12. Jl 2. 

 Pigeon violet de la Martinique. Buff. Ois. 2. 525.— Buff. PL 

 Enl. 162. 



Pigeon roux de Cayenne. Biiff^. Ois. 2. 526. — Buff. PI. Enl. 

 141. 



Colombi-Galiine roux-violet. Le Vaill. Ois. d^Afrique. 6, pi. 



282. — Temm. Pig. {8vo.) p. 400. 

 Le Pigeon rouge et jaune. D'Jzara. Voy. 4. 131. 321. 

 Martinico Pigeon. Lath, Gen. Syn. 4. 6I8. 'j^. a. 



