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Range (Florida Keys West Indies) (II)

Florida Keys, West Indies, and coast of Yucatan.

Nest, on or near the ground. Eggs, two, glossy white, 1.22 × 92. PIGEONS AND DOVES.

This is a common West Indian species. Audubon found it in numbers in the keys off southern Florida, where he records it as a summer resident, arriving in April and departing in October. The few naturalists who have visited these keys since Audubon's time have not been there in the summer, and we do not therefore know whether this species still occurs there at that season. It is more terrestrial in habits than the Mourning Dove, and its notes are deeper, louder, and more solemn than the notes of that species.

The WHITE-WINGED DOVE (319. Melopelia leucoptera) is a species of general distribution from the Mexican border of the United States south to Costa Rica, and it has been recorded from Cuba, Jamaica, and San Domingo. It is of accidental occurrence at Key West, Florida. 320. Columbigallina passerina terrestris Chapm. GROUND DOVE; MOURNING DOVE. Ad. 8. - Forehead and under parts vinaceous, the centers of the breast-feathers blackish; top and back of the head bluish slatecolor; back brownish gray; tail blackish, the outer feathers with small white tips; base of the bill coral-red, tip black. Ad. 2.-Similar, but the forehead and under parts pale brownish gray. Im. -Resembles the 2, but the feathers are tipped with whitish. L., 6.75; W., 3.60; T., 2.50; B., 50.