ORDER COLUMBIFORMES. 153 



•• Columba livia Iivia Gmelin. Rock Dove. [313.1.] 



Columba livia Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, Pt. ii, 1789, 769. (No locality 

 given = Southern Europe . ) 



Range. — -Southern Europe, the British Isles, northwestern Africa, and Asia 

 Minor; widely domesticated. As the Domestic Pigeon it is extensively reared 

 in the United States and has sometimes escaped and become naturahzed 

 about towns. [Closely allied races occur in India, Persia, West Africa, etc.] 



Genus ZENAIDA Bonaparte. 



Zenaida Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 41. Type, by tau- 

 tonymy, Zenaida amabilis Bonaparte = CoZum6a zenaida Bonaparte. 



Zendida zendida zenaida (Bonaparte). Zenaida Dove. [317.] 



Columba zenaida Bonaparte, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., V, 30, [June 

 30, 1825]. (southern Florida = Florida Keys.) 



Range. — Florida Keys (formerly), the Bahamas, Cuba, Isle of Pines, Haiti, 

 Jamaica, Porto Rico, the Virgin Isles, the Lesser Antilles, Grand Cayman, 

 Little Cayman, and Cayman Brae. [A closely allied race occiu-s on the 

 coast of Yucatan.] 



Genus ZENAIDURA Bonaparte. 



Zenaidura Bonaparte, Consp. Avium, II, sig. 11, Dec. 10, 1854 [April 

 15, 1855], 84. Type, by monotypy, Columba carolinensis Linnaeus. 



Zenaidura macroura carolinensis (Linnaeus). Eastern Mourning Dove. 

 [316.] 



Columba carolinensis Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, I, 1766, 286. Based 

 on The Turtle of Carolina, Turtur carolinensis Catesby, Carolina, I, 24. 

 (in America = South Carolina.) 



Range. — Breeds in the Austral and Lower Transition zones from New 

 Brunswick, Nova Scotia, southern Maine, Ontario, Michigan and Wisconsin 

 west to eastern Kansas and Iowa and south to the Gulf coast and the Bahamas. 

 Winters from Iowa, southern Michigan, and Massachusetts southward 

 throughout its range, and casually along the eastern coast of Mexico and 

 Central America to Panama. Casual or accidental in Greenland, Quebec, 

 Labrador, and Bermuda. 



Zenaidura macroura marginella (Woodhouse). Western Mourning Dove. 

 [316o.] 



Ectopistes marginellus Woodhouse, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., VI, No. 

 3, May-June, 1852 [Aug. 20], 104. (Cross Timbers, north fork of the 

 Canadian River, Oklahoma.) 



