GROUND DOVE. 
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on the throat centred with dusky blue; crown and hind-head a 
fine pale blue, intermixed with purple, the plumage like that 
on the throat strongly defined; back cinereous brown, the sca- 
pulars deeply tinged with pale purple, and marked with detach- 
ed drops of glossy-vPue, reflecting tints of purple; belly pale 
vinaceous brown, becoming dark cinereous towards the vent, 
where the feathers are bordered with white; wing quills dusky 
outwardly and at the tips; lower sides, and whole interior vanesi, 
a fine red chestnut, which shows itself a little below their cqv- 
erts; tail rounded, consisting of twelve feathers, the two middle 
ones cinereous brown, the rest black, tipt and edged with white; 
legs and feet yellow. 
The female has the back and tail-coverts of a mouse colour, 
with little or none of the vinaceous tint on the breast and throat, 
nor any of the light blue on the hind-head ; the throat is speck- 
led with dull white, pale clay colour, and dusky; sides of the 
neck the same, the plumage strongly defined; breast cinereous 
brown, slightly tinctured with purple; scapulars marked with 
large drops of a dark purplish blood colour, reflecting tints of 
blue; rest of the plumage nearly the same as that of the male. 
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