B((ii(/s — Scccii Ncir Siihsperh'S of Aiiicn'cdn lairds. 



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ridgirni/i of South America. In factt, if there was not a wide gap between 

 tiie ranges of .v. iiiat and >S'. ridgii'di/i the new form here described might 

 aUnost be looked upon as an intergrade between tliem. 



Claravis pretiosa livida subsp. nov. 



COLOMBIAN GRAY DOVE. 



Ti/pe from Rio Cauca, Coloml)ia, d^ adult, No. 405G, coll. of E. A. and 

 0. Bangs. Collected June, 1898, l)y J. H. Batty. 



Chnrarler!^. — Very similar to ti-ue C. pirtiosa (Ferrari-Perez) of Mexico, 

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

 (French gray to cinereous in true ('. pMlusd). Adult 9 with wings, back 

 and head paler brown. 



MEASUKEMENTS. 



Reinarh. — In 1886, t'ernando Ferrari-Perez * substituted the name p'c- 

 tiosa, based on Mexican birds, for tiie preoccupied clnerea j 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 

 Sharpe,t though he recognizes the Mexican form by Ferrari-Perez's name, 

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



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

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

 of true C. prtiiosa I have seen come fi'om IMexico, while a large series from 

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



Ti/pe 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 

 palerin coloration. General color of upperparts bright hazel, glossed with 



♦Catalogue uf Mexican Animals, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., IX, p. 175, 1886. 



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

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

 cinerea Tetam. and Knip., Pig. I, p. 120, pi. 58, 1808-11, for the American Gray Dove. 

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



