Bangs Seven New Subspecies of American Birds. 153 



rldgwayi of South America. In fact, if there was not a wide gap between 

 the ranges of S. inca and S. ridgwayi the new form here described might 

 almost be looked upon as an intergrade between them. 



Claravis pretiosa Hvida subsp. nov. 



COLOMBIAN GRAY DOVE. 



Type from Rio Cauca, Colombia, cT adult, No. 4056, coll. of E. A. and 

 O. Bangs. Collected June, 1898, by J. H. Batty. 



Characters. Very similar to true C. pretiosa (Ferrari-Perez) of Mexico, 

 but paler throughout. Adult cT with the breast and belly pearl gray 

 (French gray to cinereous in true C. pretiosa). Adult 9 with wings, back 

 and head paler brown. 



MEASUREMENTS. 



Remarks. In 1886, Fernando Ferrari-Perez * substituted the name pre- 

 tiosd, based on Mexican birds, for the preoccupied cinerea f by which title 

 the gray dove had till then been known. 



In Catalogue of Birds in British Mus. XXI, Salvador! mentions no differ 

 ences between northern and southern examples of the gray dove, but calls 

 the bird throughout its range by the preoccupied name cinerea, and even 

 Sharped though he recognizes the Mexican form by Ferrari- Perez's name, 

 retains for the southern form cinerea of Temm. and Knip. 



The Colombian form is only a closely related subspecies, differing chiefly 

 in the much paler head and underparts in the male. The darkest skins 

 of true C. pretiosa I have seen come from Mexico, while a large series from 

 Panama shows a tendency toward the paler colors of C. pretiosa liiida, though 

 none quite match the Colombian form in this respect and some are almost 

 as dark as Mexican birds. 



Qeotrygon martinica digressa subsp. nov. 



GUADELOUPE QUAIL DOVE. 



Type from Guadeloupe, Lesser Antilles. 9 adult. No. 11,442, coll. of 

 E. A. and O. Bangs. Collected May 9, 1901. 



Characters. Much larger than G. martinica martinica (Linn.) and much 

 paler in coloration. General color of upperparta bright hazel, glossed with 



* Catalogue of Mexican Animals, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., IX, p. 175, 1886. 



f Columba cinerea Scop., Del. Flor. et Faun. Insubr. II, p. 94, n. 93, 1786, being some 

 eastern dove not yet satisfactorily identified, but of course excluding the use of Columba 

 cinerea Temm. and Knip., Pig. I, p. 126, pi. 58, 1808-11, for the American Gray Dove. 

 I Hand-List of Birds, Vol. I, p. 82, 1899. 



