[360.] METRIOPELIA MELANOPTERA (Mol.).
(BLACK-WINGED DOVE.)
Metriopelia melanoptera, Burm. La-Plata Reise, ii. p. 496 (Cordilleras); Scl. et Salv. Nomencl. p. 132.
Description.—Above pale brown; wings and tail black; bend of wing white; wing-coverts like the back: beneath pale vinaceous; bill and feet black: whole length 8·0 inches, wing 5·0, tail 3·5. Female similar.
Hab. Andes of South America.
This Dove is widely diffused in Western South America from Ecuador to Chili. Dr. Burmeister tells us that it is found in the high valleys of the Cordilleras on the Argentine side, from 6000 to 12,000 feet in altitude, and along with Phrygilus fruticeti is one of the birds seen at the greatest altitudes by the traveller over the passes of the Andes. One of Dr. Burmeister’s specimens is in the collection of Messrs. Salvin and Godman.
[361.] METRIOPELIA AYMARA (Knip et Prév.).
(AYMARA DOVE.)
Metriopelia aymara, Scl. et Salv. Nomencl. p. 132. Columbina aurisquamata, Leybold, Leopoldina, viii. p. 53 (1873).
Description.—Above pale brown; wings and tail black; wing-coverts like the back; some of the middle coverts with bright golden apical spots: beneath pale vinaceous; throat whitish; middle of belly and crissum pale cinnamomeous; bill black; feet yellow: whole length 7·0 inches, wing 4·5, tail 2·5. Female similar.