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THE KEY WEST PIGEON, OR DOVE. 
grey. There is a small spot of deep blue immediately behind the eye, and 
a larger one a little below on the side of the neck ; and a band of splendent 
feathers extends over the back and sides of the neck, having bright purple 
and greenish reflections. 
Length 1T£ inches; extent of wings IS# ; bill along the back r \, along 
the edges ; tarsus 
Adult Female. ' j 
The female can scarcely be distinguished from the male, the colouring 
being but slightly fainter. 
Length 10# inches. 
Purple-flowered Anona. 
Pokcelia parvifloea, Purd i, FI. Amer. Sept., vol. ii. p. 383. 
This plant is very abundant on many of the outer Keys of the Floridas. 
It grows among other shrubs, seldom exceeding seven or eight feet in 
height, and more frequently not more than four or five. The leaves are 
obovate, rounded at the base, thick, glossy above, downy beneath. The 
outer petals are larger, and not unlike the divided shell of a hickory or 
pig nut ; the inner ovate, deep purple, with a white band at the base. 1 did 
not see the fruit, which I was told is not unpalatable when ripe, it being 
then about the size of a common walnut, and of a black colour. 
THE KEY WEST PIGEON, OR DOVE. 
COLUMBA MONTANA, Linn. 
PLATE CCLXXXIL — Male and Female. 
It was at Key West that I first saw this beautiful Pigeon. The Marion 
wa.s brought to anchor close to, and nearly opposite, the little town of the 
same name, some time after the setting of the sun. The few flickering lights 
I saw nearly fixed the size of the place in my imagination. In a trice, the 
kind captain and I were seated in his gig, and I felt the onward movement 
of the light bark as if actually on wing, so well timed was the pulling of the 
