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IiLACK-THROATED DOVE. 
young or true female, is so unlike the above, that 
we shall describe its essential differences. 
The size is similar to the male : the ground co- 
lour of the upper plumage is light drab, rather darker 
than isabella-brown ; each feather of the wing-covers, 
the rump, the upper tail-covers, and the crown and 
nape, terminates in huff-white or dingy fulvous ; 
these markings are bordered internally only by a black 
edging ; they assume the form of roundish spots on 
the scapulars, wing-covers, and tertials, and of bars 
on the other parts. The chin is pure white, the 
throat and breast light drab-brown with dusky trans- 
verse bars ; all beyond, as in the adult, is pure white. 
The bar on the hack, the quill, and the tail-feathers 
are like the adult male, but the bill and feet are light 
brown. This accords pretty well with Le Vaillant’s 
figure at pi. 275, but the brown bar on the back, in 
both our specimens, is single, and not double as 
authors affirm it to be. 
Total length, 9 inches ; bill, T 8 5 ; wings, 4 T ' 5 ; 
tail beyond, 3 {- ; ditto, from the base, 5/ s ; tarsus, 
