. Key to North American birds; containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary . aty-blue, olive on the l)ack and scapulars ; head andneck all round, breast and wing-patch, chocolate-red ; no nuchal iridescence;bill, feet and eyes, purple ; 14 ; wing 8 ; tail 5^. Mexico, to U. S. border ;Cape St. Lucas. Lawk., Ann. Lye. N. Y. 1851, 116; Bd., 598, pi. 61;Coop., 508 rLAViiiosxRis. White-crowned Pigeon. Dark slaty-blue, paler below ; crown pure white ;hind neck purplish-brown, lower down me
. Key to North American birds; containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary . aty-blue, olive on the l)ack and scapulars ; head andneck all round, breast and wing-patch, chocolate-red ; no nuchal iridescence;bill, feet and eyes, purple ; 14 ; wing 8 ; tail 5^. Mexico, to U. S. border ;Cape St. Lucas. Lawk., Ann. Lye. N. Y. 1851, 116; Bd., 598, pi. 61;Coop., 508 rLAViiiosxRis. White-crowned Pigeon. Dark slaty-blue, paler below ; crown pure white ;hind neck purplish-brown, lower down metallic golden, each feather black-edged; iris white ; bill and feet reddish, former blue-tipped ; 13J ; wing 7^ ;tail 5J ; 9 similar. West Indies and Florida Keys. Bonap., Am. Orn. ii, 11,pi. 15; NuTT., i, 625; Aud., iv, 315, pi. 280; Bd., 599. leucocephala. 168. Genus ECTOPISTES Swainson, Wild Pigeon. Adult $ dull blue with olivaceous tinge on back, below dull purplish-red whitening on vent and crissum ; sides of neck golden and rul)y ; some wing coverts l)lack-spotted ; quills blackish, with slaty, whitish and rufous edgins:; middle tail feathers bluish-black, the others white or. Fig. It). Miia Pigeon. ashy, the inner webs basally black with a chestnut patch; bill black; feetyellow; 9 and young duller and more brownish or olivaceous above, belowdull grayish, with a tawny tinge anteriorly, or quite gray ; very young havethe feathers skirted with whitish; 15-17; wing 7-8; tail about the same,cuneate, of 12 narrow aanninate feathers. Wanders continually in search KEY TO N. A. niUDS. 29 226 COLUMBID^E, PIGEONS. GEN. 1G9, 170, 171, 172.
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