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Females, five specimens : Wing, 76.2-83 (80) ; tail, 52.4^57.5 

 (53.6); culmen with cere, 11.1-11.7 {llA'-); tarsus, 13.8-15.8 

 (14.7) mm. 



Type, male: Wing, 81; tail, 55; culmen with cere, 10.8; tarsus, 

 14.8 mm. 



The differences marking the ground dove of Navassa Island were 

 first observed in examining three males and three females in the 

 collections of the American Museum of Natural History obtained 

 in July, 1917, by R. H. Beck. These skins were in considerably 

 worn dress, and after some consideration they were laid aside, since 

 there was possibility that the lighter coloration was due to wear and 

 fading. The receipt of five skins in unworn plumage taken during 

 work of the Parish-Smithsonian expedition of 1930 substantiates 

 the earlier observations of lighter color and leaves no hesitation 

 in describing this race. The differences noted are more obvious in 

 females than in males. 



Though occasional skins of O. p. insularis are closely similar to 

 C. p. navassae^ the average of insularis is decidedly darker. It is 

 interesting to note that the variation of the Navassa Island bird is 

 in the direction of C. p. exigua Riley from Mona Island in the pas- 

 sage between Porto Rico and the Dominican Republic, environ- 

 mental conditions on Mona and Navassa from available information 

 being much the same. 



In addition to the skins listed one male was prepared as a skeleton. 



OREOPELEIA MONTANA (Linnaeus) 

 Ruddy Quail-dovb 



ColumM montana Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, vol. 1, 175S, p. 163 (Jamaica). 



Three specimens, one preserved as a skeleton, were taken 10 miles 

 cast of Baraderes on April 6. There are few records for this species 

 from the Republic of Haiti. 



OREOPELEIA CHRYSIA (Bonaparte) 



Key West Quail-dove 



Geotnjgon cliry'^lcb Bonaparte. Comp. Rend. Acad. Sci. (Paris), vol. 40, ls.55, 

 p. 100 (Florida). 



A female was secured by Lee Parish on Petite Cayemite Island on 

 April 17. A male obtained on Gonave Island on March 23 was 

 prepared as a skeleton. 



" Three specimens. 



