(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.
_Hab._ Peru, Bolivia, and N.W. Argentina.
Dr. Leybold's collector obtained examples of this Dove in 1863, at Los
Paramillos, a rocky district near Uspallata, on the Argentine slope of
the Chilian Andes. Some of these specimens are in the collection of
Messrs. Salvin and Godman.
The species is easily recognizable by the bright golden wing-spots.