AKT. 2 BIRDS COLLECTED IN CUBA AND HAITI WETMORE 21 



It has recently been decided that the generic name for this grovip, 

 currently known as Chaeiiiepelia (also spelled C hanmepelia) ^ must 

 again become G olumhigallina}^ 



COLUMBIGALLINA PASSERINA NAVASSAE (Wetmore) 



Navassa Ground Dove 



Chacmepelia passerhui navassae Wetmore, Proc. BioL Soc. Washington, vol. 43, 

 Sept. 26, 1930, p. 149 (Navassa Island). 



This race, similar to C. p. insularis but grayer, less brownish on the 

 dorsal surface, lighter below, and averaging somewhat smaller, was 

 described from two males and three females collected on Navassa 

 Island on May 10 by S. W. Parish and W. M. Perrygo. Following 

 is the original description of the type specimen : 



Type, U. S. N. M. No. 317212, male adult, Navassa Island, May 

 10, 1930, collected by W. M. Perrygo (original number, 566). Back, 

 rump, and upper tail-coverts hair brown; hindneck and posterior 

 part of crown dawn gray, with each feather margined narrowly with 

 deep neutral gray, producing a scalloped appearance; forepart of 

 crown slightly brighter than avellaneous; lesser and middle wing- 

 coverts and inner scapulars between vinaceous-fawn and fawn color, 

 becoming grayer toward outer margin of wing, the inner feathers 

 spotted with plum purple, the spots having a metallic sheen; con- 

 cealed portions of primaries and outer secondaries pecan brown; 

 inner secondaries and tips and outer margins of outer secondaries and 

 primaries blackish brown ; ninth primary with a very narrow whitish 

 margin on distal part of outer web ; sixth to eighth primaries with a 

 narrow margin of pecan brown on outer web ; primary coverts pecan 

 brown at base and dull blackish at tips; middle pair of rectrices 

 deep mouse gray; others black with a narrow white edging on outer 

 web of outermost at distal end; chin and throat whitish with a 

 wash of avellaneous ; line behind eye vinaceous-fawn ; feathers of sides 

 of head and sides of upper f oreneck pale vinaceous-fawn, with narrow 

 terminal margins of fawn color; those of lower f oreneck and breast 

 blackish basally, with a narrow margin of pale vinaceous-fawn and 

 a very narrow distal edging of fawn color; lower breast and sides 

 between avellaneous and vinaceous-fawn; abdomen dull whitish; 

 under tail-coverts basally hair brown, margined broadly with dull 

 whitish; under surface of wings Mikado brown. Bill blackish at 

 tip; yellowish brown basally; cere blackish brown; tarsus and toes 

 dull sayal brown (from dried skins). 



Measurements are as follows: Males, five specimens: Wing, 

 79.6-82 (80.9) ; tail, 51.6-57.5 (54.8) ; culmen with cere, 9.8 (10.8 ") ; 

 tarsus, 14.&-16 (15.2) mm. 



^"Thls name Is used in the A. 0. U. check-list of North American birds, 4th ed., 1931, 

 p. 155. 



" Four specimens. 



