Plate CLXXVII. Male and Female.
Upper parts dusky greyish-blue, lower paler; quills and tail-feathers
darker; upper part of head white, hind neck dark purplish-brown, lower
part and sides green, changing gold-colour, each feather margined with
deep black.
_Male_, 14-1/4, 23-1/2. _Female_, 14.
Florida Keys. Common during summer only.
Columba leucocephala, Bonap. Syn. p. 119.
White-headed Pigeon, Columba leucocephala, Bonap. Amer. Orn.
v. ii. p. 15.
White-crowned Pigeon, Nutt. Man. v. i. p. 625.
White-headed Pigeon, Columba leucocephala, Aud. Orn. Biog. v.
ii. p. 443; v. v. p. 557.