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PASSERINE GOURA. 



Columba minuta. Linn. Si/st. Nat. 1. 285. 35,^Gmel. Syst. 

 Nat. 1. 788.— Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 6l2. 68.—Temm. Pig. Ind. 

 496. 



Turtur parvus fuscus Americanus. Briss. Orn. 1. 1 16. 20. pi. 8. 



Petite Tourterelle de St. Domingue. Buff. lH. Enl. 243./ 1. 

 Colombi-Galline Pigme. Temm, Pig. {8vo.) p. 432. 

 Passerine Turtle. Lath. Gen. Sijn, 4. QQO. 5Q. 



A VERY small species, measuring only five inches 

 and a half in length : its beak is brown, as are the 

 whole of the upper parts of the body : the wing- 

 coverts reddish-brown, with several spots of the 

 colour of polished steel, of which three or four 

 are upon the lesser, and five or six on the greater 

 coverts : the quills are dusky, with their outer edges 

 and tips rufous : the two middle tail-feathers are 

 brown ; the others are grey at their base, then 

 black, and terminated with brown ; the two lateral 

 ones, on each side, have their outer webs white 

 towards their tips : the lower parts of the body of 

 a reddish-white : the throat and breast pale vina- 

 ceous : the legs are brown. 



Inhabits the warmer parts of America. 



