COLUMBINE. 
STARN^NAS. 
193 
Male, 6|, 11. Female, 6|. 
Throughout the Floridas and their Keys, as well as from Louisiana 
to North Carolina, including Alabama and Georgia. Pretty abundant. 
Resident. 
Columba passerina, Linn. Syst. Nat. v. i. p. 285. 
Ground Dove, Columba passerina, Wins. Amer. Orn. v. iv. p. 15. 
Columba passerina. Bo nap. Syn. p. 120. 
Ground Dove, Columba passerina, Aud. Amer. Ornith. v. ii. p. 471 v. v. p. 558. 
GENUS II. STARN^NAS, Bonap. GROUND-DOVE. 
Bill of moderate length, slender, compressed toward the 
end ; upper mandible with a tumid fleshy covering at the 
base, the tip convex, declinate, obtuse. Nostrils oblique, 
linear. Head small, compressed ; neck of moderate length ; 
body full, robust. Legs stout ; tarsus longer than the hind 
toe, covered anteriorly and laterally with subhexagonal 
scales ; toes of moderate length. Claws rather small, 
arched, compressed, obtuse. Plumage compact. Wings 
short, rounded ; third, fourth, and fifth quills longest, and 
almost equal ; second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth, cut out 
on the outer web. T ail of moderate length, slightly rounded, 
of twelve broad, rounded feathers. Tongue and digestive 
organs as in the preceding genus. 
287. 1. Starnaenas cyanocephala, Linn. Blue-headed Ground- 
Dove. 
Plate CLXXII. Male and Female. 
Upper parts rich chocolate, slightly tinged with olive ; lower parts 
brownish -red, anteriorly tinged with purplish-red, lighter on the middle 
of the breast, the sides and lower tail-coverts approaching to the colour 
of the back ; upper part of head bright blue, encircled by a band of 
deep black, broader on the occiput, and very narrow in front ; a band 
of white, under the eye, meeting its fellow on the chin ; a broad patch 
of black on the fore neck, margined with white beneath, and on the 
sides having a patch of light blue. 
Male, 121, 17 ^. 
Accidental on the southernmost Florida Keys in summer only. 
Columba cyanocephala, Linn. Syst. Nat. v. i. p. 282. 
Blue-headed Pigeon, Columba cyanocephala, Aun. Orn. Biog. v. ii. p. 411 ; v. v. 
p. 557. 
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