GROUND GOURA. 



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Near ten inches in length : the irides are red : 

 the head, neck, and upper parts of the body, are 

 deep violaceouS'chesnut : the breast is vinaceous : 

 the rest of the under parts of the body are rufous, 

 varying in tint : quills fuscous on their outer webs, 

 rufous on their inner: tail-feathers dusky, with 

 rufous margins : beneath the eyes a spot of a 

 brownish violet-colour : the legs red, beak the 

 same : claws dusky : female with the breast and 

 abdomen of a brownish-white : the rest of the 

 body a violet-brown. Inhabits Martinique and the 

 warmer parts of America. 



GROUND GOURA. 

 (Goiira Passerina.) 



Go. corpore cinereo-fusco, suhtus violaceo, pectore nigricante' 

 squamato, remigibus riifis margine exteriore apiceque nigricati' 

 tibus, alis punctis chalybeis, rectricibus intermediis cinereis, re- 

 Uquis nigricantibus , 



Goura with the body above of a cinereous brown, beneath violet; 

 the breast with dusky scales ; the quills rufous, their outer 

 edges and tips dusky 3 the wings with steel-coloured spots j the 

 middle tail-feathers ash~coloured, the rest dusky. 



Columba Passerina. Temm. Pig. Ind. 496. — Linn. Syst. Nat, 

 1. 285. ZA.—Gmel. Syst, Nat, 1. 787.'-Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 

 611. 67. — Wils. Amer. Orn. 6. p, 15. 



Turtur parvus Americanus. Briss. Orn, 1, J 13. IQ. pL ^.f% 1. 



Le Cocotzin. Buff, Ois. 2. 559. 



