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TAMBOURINE GROUND DOVE, 
Turtles, or the present genus. It is a neat and 
clean- looking bird, the whole of the upper plumage 
being of a bistre -brown, slightly tinged with grey up- 
on the neck. Upon the outer webs of three or four of 
the greater wing-coverts are large spots of lustrous 
blackish-green. The middle tail-feathers are umber 
brown ; the two exterior on each side gray, with a 
broad black bar near the tip. The greater quills have 
their inner webs deep brown. The forehead, streak 
over the eye, and under plumage, is pure white. 
The under wing-coverts and sides are pale orange- 
brown : under tail-coverts umber-brovm. The bill 
and legs are gray, the latter slightly tinged with 
red. In length it measures nearly nine inches. 
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