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well as the secondaries, barred with dusky ; scapulars, spotted 
with white and brown, which is not seen, unless the plumage 
be separated by the hand ; all the feathers above are shafted 
with black ; tail, very slightly forked, of an ash colour, faintly 
tinged with brown, crossed with four broad bands of black, 
and tipt with white ; tail, three inches longer than the wings ; 
over the eye extends a streak of dull white ; chin, white, 
mixed with fine black hairs; breast and belly, beautifully 
variegated with ferruginous and transverse spots of white; 
femorals, the same ; vent, pure white ; legs, long, very 
slender, and of a rich orange yellow ; claws, black, large, and 
remarkably sharp ; lining of the wing, thickly marked with 
heart-shaped spots of black. This bird, on dissection, was 
found to be a male. In the month of February, I shot another 
individual of this species, near Hampton, in Virginia, which 
agreed almost exactly with the present. 
GROUND DOVE COLUMBA PASSERINA. 
Plate XLVI. Fig. 2. Male. Fig. 3. Female. 
Linn. Syst. 285. — Sloan. Jam. ii. 305 Le Cocotzin, Fernandez, 24. — Fuff. ii. 
559. PI. enl. 243 Turt. Si/st. 478. — Columba minuta, Ibid. p. 479. — Arct. 
Zool. p, 328, No. 191. — Catesb. i. 26. — La petite tourterelle d’Amerique, Briss. 
i. 113, pi. 9, fig. 1. 
CH2EMEPEL I A PASSERINA. — Swainson. 
Chaemepelia, Swain. N. Groups. Zool. Journ. No. XI. p. 361. — Columba passeriua, 
(sub-genus Goura,) Bonap. Synop. p. 120. 
This is one of the least of the Pigeon tribe, whose timid 
and innocent appearance forms a very striking contrast to the 
ferocity of the Bird-killer of the same plate. Such as they are 
in nature, such I have endeavoured faithfully to represent 
them. I have been the more particular with this minute 
species, as no correct figure of it exists in any former work 
with which I am acquainted. 
The Ground Dove is a native of North and South Carolina, 
Georgia, the new state of Louisiana, Florida, and the islands 
