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grey. Tail, vvltli the two centre feathers grayisli- 
brown from the base half-way up, and then passing 
into black, those on each side rapidly graduated, 
bluish-gray at the base, with a broad black fascia 
near their tips, which are gray. Bill and feet yellow. 
Extreme length from the tip of the bill to the end of 
the tail nearly ten inches. 
The colours of the female are more sordid, and 
the forehead and chin, instead of being black, are 
nearly white ; the metallic spots upon the wings are 
also less, and her tail shorter. 
The young, instead of the black throat and breast, 
have these parts brown, barred with white. The 
feathers of the back and wing-coverts are also barred 
with black, and terminated with white and reddish- 
white, and the crown of the head is hair-brown, the 
feathers margined with reddish-brown. The fore- 
head and chin are white. 
The next division, to which we direct the atten- 
tion of our readers, is that of the Ground Doves, or 
PeristerincB, distinguished from the preceding groups 
by their terrene habits, and their evident approach, 
in many points, to the more typical Rasores or Gal- 
linaceous Birds. In these the bill is rather slender, 
frequently subemarginate, and the tip of the upper 
mandible but gently deflected ; the wings are gene- 
rally short and rounded, and in many instances con- 
cave, as we see them in the partridge, grous, &c. 
The legs are considerably longer than in the typical 
