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NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS.. 
Genus MELOFELIA, Bonap. (Page 105.) 
M. leucoptera. Light ashy ; olivaceous above ; anal region whitish, 
on wing-coverts and ends of secondaries, white. Tail-feathers with 
blackish band. 
Length, 11.00 
Lower California 
A large patch 
a subterminal 
A steel blue-black spot below the ears. Bill black ; iris and legs purple* 
wing, 6.80 ; tail, 5.10. Hab. Southern borders of United States to 
south to Costa Rica; Cuba and Jamaica. •* ( White-winged Dove.) 
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” Genus ZEN AID A, Bonap. (Page 105.) “ 
Z. amabilis. Reddish all over ; olivaceous above. Inside of wings, sides, and upper 
surface of tail-feathers except median, blue. Secondaries tipped with white. Tail-feathers 
with subterminal band of black, the tips whitish. Bill black ; feet red; iris brown. 
Length, 10.00; wing, 6.00; tail, 4.00. Hab, Florida Key and West Indies. ( Zenaida 
Dove.) 
2 Genus ZENAXDURA, Bonap. (Page 105.) ™ 
Z. carolinensis. Above bluish, washed with oliye ; beneath vinaceous, tinged with 
purple on the breast; sides of neck glossed with metallic purple, erissum nearly white. 
Tail with fourteen tail-feathers, which are dusky, and mostly with a subterminal blackish 
bar. Secondaries not tipped with white. Bill black ; legs red. Iris hazel. Length, 
23.00; wing, 5.90; tail, 6.00. Hob. Whole of North America, south to Panama; West 
Indies. ( Carolina Dove.) 
™ Genus SCARDAFELLA, Bonap. (Page 105.) 
S. inca. Brownish-gray above, paler, and with a vinaceous cast anteriorly, beneath. 
Each feather with a terminal dusky crescentic bar, producing a squamate appearance ; 
inner webs of quills chestnut ; axillars black ; about terminal half of three outer tail- 
feathers w r hite. No white patch on wings ; abdomen and erissum pale ochraceous. Black 
bars very faint on breast, obsolete on throat. Bill black ; legs and eyes purple. Length, 
8.50; wing, 3.75; tail, 4.40. Hab. Mexico and Guatemala; Rio Grande of Texas, to 
Cape St. Lucas. ( Inca Dove.) 
“■ _ Genus CHAMJEPELIA, Swainson. (Page 105.) "JJ 
C. passerina. Above grayish-olive ; forehead, sides of head and neck, lesser upper 
coverts and beneath, purplish-red ; feathers of head, neck, and fore-breast margined with 
dusky. Tail-feathers black (except middle), the outer edged towards tip with white ; 
outside of wing with black, violet, and blue blotches. Bill, feet, and iris red. Female 
duller and more ashy. Length, 6.30 ; wing, 3.50 ; tail, 2.80. Hab. Southern Atlantic 
and Gulf States, whole of Mexico (including Lower California), Central America, New 
Granada, Venezuela, and West Indies. (Ground Dove.) 
22 Genus OREOFELEIA, Reis. (Page 105.) JJS 
O. martinica. Above chestnut-rufous, the crown and nape with purplish-green, the 
lower part of nape with golden-green, the back with violet, the other upper parts with 
bright purplish-red reflections ; beneath pinkish-white, more purplish on the jugulum. 
A distinctly marked light stripe on the cheek, bordered below by one of purplish-red. 
Eye carmine. Length, 10.70; wing, 6.20; tail, 5.75. Hab. Key West, Florida, (?) Cuba, 
and Martinique. ( Key West Pigeon.) 
