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Range. — Native country unknown, but domesticated nearly throughout 

 the world. Naturalized about Los Angeles, California, and in Cuba, Haiti, 

 Jamaica, and St. Bartholomew. Of the wild species it most closely resembles 

 S. decaoda Frivaldsky, ranging from southeastern Europe to Japan, India, 

 and Ceylon. 



Genus MELOPELIA Bonaparte. 



Melopelia Bonaparte, Consp. Avium, II, sig. 11, Dec. 10, 1S54 [April 15, 

 1855], 81. Type, by subs, desig., Columba meloda Tschudi (Gray, 

 1855). 



Melopelia asiatica asiatica (Linnaeus). Eastern White-winged Dove, [319.] 



Columba asiatica Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 163. Based 

 mainly on The Brown Indian Dove Edwards, Nat. Hist. Birds, 76. 

 (in Indiis = Jamaica.) 



Range. — Lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas, south through eastern Mexico 

 to Costa Rica; also in the southern Bahamas, Cuba, Haiti, Old Providence, 

 and Jamaica. Casual in Florida, Louisiana, and Texas; accidental in New 

 York (Long Island). 



Melopelia asiatica meamsi Ridgway. Western White-winged Dove. [319a.] 



Melopelia asiatica mearnsi Ridgway, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XXVIII, 

 No. 18, May 27, 1915, 107. (Five miles north of Nogales, Arizona.) 



Range. — Southwestern New Mexico, southern Arizona, southeastern Cali- 

 fornia, and northern Lower California south through Mexico to Guerrero, 

 Mexico, and Puebla, and the Tres Marias Islands. Accidental in Colorado, 

 Washington, and British Columbia (Vancouver Island). 



[An allied race occurs in western Costa Rica and western Panama.] 



Genus COLUMBIGALLINA Boie. 



Columbigallina Boie, Isis von Oken, [XIX] 1826, Heft x (Oct.), col. 977. 

 Type, by subs, desig., Columba passeri?ia Linnaeus (Gray, 1841). 



Columbigallina passermapasserina (Linnaeus). Eastern Ground Dove. [320.] 



Columba passerina Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 165. Based 

 mainly on The Ground Dove, Turtur minimus guttatv^ Catesby, 

 Carolina, I, 26. (in America inter tropi cos = South Carolina.) 



Range. — Lower Austral Zone of the South Atlantic and Gulf states from 

 South Carolina to southeastern Texas. Accidental farther north (Tennessee, 

 North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New 

 York). 



