. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. PICtEOXS ax I) DOVES 49. Photograph by C. M, Oswalt Courtesy of OutiriK Pubhshing Co. NEST AND EGGS OF MOURNING DOVE The nest is an astonishingly poor makeshift, composed chiefly of a handful of twigs loosely thrown together WHITE-WINGED DOVE Melopelia asiatica (Linncciis) A. O. U. Number 319 Other Name.— Singing Dove. General Description.— Length, 12 inches. Prevail- ins color above, gray; below, brown on breast and gray on abdomen. Tail shorter than wing, moderately rounded, consisting of 12 feathers, these broader termin- ally : wing rather large
. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. PICtEOXS ax I) DOVES 49. Photograph by C. M, Oswalt Courtesy of OutiriK Pubhshing Co. NEST AND EGGS OF MOURNING DOVE The nest is an astonishingly poor makeshift, composed chiefly of a handful of twigs loosely thrown together WHITE-WINGED DOVE Melopelia asiatica (Linncciis) A. O. U. Number 319 Other Name.— Singing Dove. General Description.— Length, 12 inches. Prevail- ins color above, gray; below, brown on breast and gray on abdomen. Tail shorter than wing, moderately rounded, consisting of 12 feathers, these broader termin- ally : wing rather large and pointed. Color.— Head, fawn color, paler in front and pass- ing into a much darker hue (sometimes approaching dark purple-drab) on crown and back of head; hind- neck, similar in color to back of head but somewhat lighter; back, shoulders, and wing-coverts, plain deep huffy-brown, light sepia, or umber; the middle pair of tail-feathers (sometimes longer upper tail-coverts also) similar, sometimes more decidedly brown ; outer wing- coverts, mostly white forming a ;s elonr/ated patch from bend of ii'ing to extremity of greater coverts, the latter with basal portion gray, as are also the coverts along inner margin of the white area ; prima- ries, primary coverts, and outer secondaries, dull black, the outer webs of secondaries, broadly edged with white at the tips, the primaries very narrowly edged with white (except basally) and margined terminally with light or pale brownish-gray; rump, light slate-gray or dark gull-gray, usually tinged with buffy-brown; the upper tail-coverts, either wholly brown or mixed brown and gray; tail-feathers (except middle pair), slate-gray very broadly tipped with very pale gray to grayish- white, and crossed by a band of slate-black or blackish- slate between the paler and darker areas ; a spot below the eye of blue-black or black glossed with steel-blue; sides of neck, glossed with metallic reddish-bronze to greenish-bronze;
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