2. Columba loricata. Licht. Vög. Verz. s. 67.
Columba gymnophthalmus, Temm., Pig. i. 18.
—— leucoptera, Pr. Max. Reise, 2, p. 242.
—— picazuro, Temm. Pig. p. 111.
Picazuro, Azara, Voy. No. 317.
Frequents in large flocks the fields of Indian corn in the neighbourhood of Maldonado. Legs dull “carmine red.” This, probably, is the representative on the eastern side of the Andes of the foregoing or Chilian species.
1. Zenaida aurita. G. R. Gray.
Columba aurita, Temm. Pig. p. 60. Wagl. sp. 70.
I procured specimens of this bird at Maldonado (where it was very abundant) in La Plata, and at Valparaiso in Chile.