Head and neck, all round, lower parts to the anal region, and a patch on the lesser wing-coverts, reddish chocolate-purple. Rest of plumage slaty-blue, darker on tail and primaries, and more olivaceous on the dorsal region.

7. C. flavirostris. Feathers of the forehead reaching forward to the anterior end of the nasal lobe, and wholly covering the cere on top. Culmen much arched. Bill and claws yellow. Wing, 7.80; tail, 5.40; culmen, .52; tarsus, 1.03; middle toe, 1.15; outer, .82; inner, .75. Hab. Middle America, and southern borders of Middle Province of United States, from Arizona and the Rio Grande; south to Costa Rica.

8. C. inornata.[104] Feathers of the forehead reaching forward to only about the middle of the nasal lobe, leaving the top of the cere naked; culmen only moderately arched. Bill and claws black. Wing, 9.20; tail, 6.60; culmen, .75; tarsus, 1.16; middle toe, 1.47; outer, 1.18; inner, .97. Hab. Jamaica.

PLATE LVII.

Columba fasciata, Say.
BAND-TAILED PIGEON.

Columba fasciata, Say, Long’s Exped. R. Mts. II, 1823, 10.—Bon. Amer. Orn. I, 1825, 77, pl. viii.—Wagler, Syst. Av. 1827, Columba, No. 47.—Nuttall, Man. I, 1832, 624.—Aud. Orn. Biog. IV, 1838, 479, pl. ccclxvii.—Ib. Syn. 1839, 191.—Ib. Birds Amer. IV, 1842, 312, pl. cclxxix.—Tschudi, Fauna Peruana, 1844–46, No. 261.—Newberry, Zoöl. Cal. & Or. Route, Rep. P. R. R. VI, IV, 92.—Baird, Birds N. Am. 1858, 597.—Cooper, Orn. Cal. I, 1870, 506. Chlorœnas fasciata, Bonap. Consp. II, 1854, 51. Columba monilis, Vigors, Zoöl. Beechey’s Voyage, 1839, 26, pl. x. Chlorœnas monilis, Reich. Icones Av. ccxxvii, fig. 2481.

Sp. Char. Above ash, inclining to olivaceous on the back, and with a fine bluish cast on the rump, under surface of wings, and sides. The primaries and basal portion of the tail dusky. Larger wing-coverts and secondaries, with primaries, distinctly edged with white; terminal third of tail of nearly the same tint as the wing-coverts, but the basal portion much darker, with a rather indistinct, narrow dusky band between the two shades, a little beyond the tips of the upper coverts. Whole head, lateral and front part of neck, and lower parts to the anal region, ashy vinaceous-purple, lighter, and more pinkish on the abdomen; chin considerably lighter; anal region and crissum white. A narrow half-collar of white across the upper portion of the nape; feathers beneath this dull metallic golden-green, with an occasional bronzy reflection, the feathers somewhat squamate. Bill and feet yellow, the former black at the end; iris red. Length, about 15.00; wing, 8.80; tail, 6.10. Female smaller, and less deeply colored, the purplish tint more ashy; sometimes with the nuchal white band obsolete or wanting; the abdomen whitish, etc.

Hab. Pacific Province of United States, and table-lands of Mexico, to Guatemala. Oaxaca (Scl. 1858, 304); Xalapa, 1859, 369 (Cordova, 1856, 359); Guatemala (Salvin, Ibis, II, 276); Fort Whipple, Arizona (Coues, P. A. N. S. 1866, 93); Vera Cruz, alpine region (Sum. M. Bost. Soc. I, 562).