BIKDS COLUMBIDAE — OEEOPELEIA MAETINICA. 607 
brownish, ash, more anteriorly by white. The forehead feathers have the darker margins as 
well as the rest of the head. There is also a more ashy tinge on the back. The under tail 
coverts are brown, conspicuously margined with whitish. 
I am unable to detect any material difference between specimens from Florida, the lower Eio 
Grande, and Lower California. 
List of specimens. 
Catal. 
No. 
Sex. 
Locality. 
When collected. 
Whence obtained. 
Orig. 
No. 
Collected by — 
Length. 
Stretch 
of wings. 
Wing. 
1191 
3045 
8660 
8661 
4921 
4922 
4105 
4104 
4103 
3726 
9 
9 
9 
9 
3 
Washington, D. C 
Liberty county, Ga... 
Sept, — , 1844 
1846 
Oct. 30, 1857 
Aug. 28, 1857 
J. C. McGuire 
do . 
W. L. Jones 
6.50 
6. 50 
6. 00 
10. 20 
10. 50 
11.00 
3. 50 
3.50 
3. 50 
Indian Key, Fla 
do 
do 
...... do 
57 
C.50 
10. 50 
3.36 
W. Hutton 
1 
OEEOPELEIA, Reichenbach. 
Oreopeleia, Reichenbach, Handbuch der Speciellen Ornithol. I, i, 1851, page xxiv. Type Columba marlinica, L. 
Ch. — Bill lengthened, slender; culmen half the rest of the head from the frontal feathers. Feet large, stout; tarsi longer 
than the middle toe and claw, covered anteriorly by transverse scutellae. Inner lateral claw longer than outer; reaching 
beyond the base of the middle one, the outer falling short of it. Hind toe and claw more than half the middle do. Quills and 
tail feathers very broad ; the wings rounded ; second and third quills longest, the first intermediate between the fourth and fifth. 
Tail sub-orbicular, the shafts convex outwardly ; the feathers rounded, a little graduated. 
This genus is placed by Bonaparte as a sub-genus of Geotrygon of Gosse. 
OREOPELEIA MAETINICA, Reich. 
Key West Pigeon. 
Columba martinica, Gmelin, I, 1788, 781. Not of Temminck. 
Geotrygon marlinica, Bonap. Consp. Av. II, 1854, 74.— Cab. Jour. IV, 1856, 108. 
Oreopeleia murtinicana, Reich. Syst. Av. 1851, page xxv. — Ib. " Icones Avium, tab. 257, fig. 1431. " 
Columba montuna, Ann. Orn. Biog. II, 1834, 382 ; pi. 167— Ib. Syn. 1839, 191.— Ib. Birds Amer. V, 1842, 14 ; pi. 
282.— Nuttall, Man. I, 2d ed. 1840, 756. Not of Linnaeus. 
Zenaida montana, Bonap. Geog. & Comp. List, 1838. 
" Columbigallina montana, Temminck." 
" Columba mxjstacea, Lembeye." Bonap. (Not of Temminck .) 
Sp. Ch. — Ground color of the upper parts, including wing ( both surfaces) and tail feathers brownish orange ; the upper part 
of head and neck with metallic reflections of green and purple ; the back, rump, and wing coverts, witli reflections of metallic 
light purplish or violet. There is a white band from the lower mandible along side of the head, bordered below by purplish 
red, like the forehead, and a similar band through the eyes, which are without metallic lustre. The breast is very light purplish 
red, fading to white towards the tail and cl/in. The feathers of the under tail coverts are dusky brown at the base. Length, 
10.70; wing, 6.00 ; tail, 5.75. 
Hob. — Key West, Florida, and West Indies. 
