ART. 2 BIRDS COLLECTED IN CUBA AND HAITI WETMOEE 19 



Family RECURVIROSTRIDAE, Avocets and Stilts 



HIMANTOPUS MEXICANUS (Muller) 



Black-necked Stilt 



Charadrius Mexicanus Muller, Natursyst., Suppl., 1776, p. 117 (Mexico). 



Four skins obtained were collected by Lee and S. W. Parish at 

 Petit Troll de Nippes and Grand-Boucan on April 9 ; Petite Cayemite 

 Island on April 13 ; and lie a Vache on May 6. These localities give 

 additional detail in the distribution of this species, which is resident 

 locally in the coastal plain. 



Order COLUMBIFORMES 

 Suborder Columbae 



Family COLUMBIDAE, Doves and Pigeons 



COLUMBA LEUCOCEPHALA Linnaeus 



White-ckowned Pigeon. 



Columba leiwocephaJa Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, voL 1, 1758, p. 164 

 (Bahama Islands). 



Two specimens of this widely distributed pigeon were taken on the 

 Rio Fabrico opposite Cayo Grande de Moa, Cuba, on March 6 and 8. 

 In Haiti seven \jthers were prepared as skins as follows: Petite 

 Gonave Island, March 19, tw^o males ; Grande Cayemite Island, April 

 11, male ; Petite Cayemite Island, April 12 and 13, male and female ; 

 lie a Vache, April 30 and May 2, two males. In addition to these a 

 number of skulls and skeletons were preserved. The species was 

 common in all these island localities. 



COLUMBA SQUAMOSA Bonnaterrc 



Scaled Pigeon 



Columba sqvatnosa Bonnaterbb, Tableau Enc. Meth., vol. 1, 1792, p. 234 

 (Guadeloupe Island, West Indies). 



Two were shot on the Rio Fabrico opposite Caj^o Grande de Moa 

 on March 7 and 8. 



ZENAIDA ZENAIDA ZENAIDA (Bonaparte) 



Zenaida Dove 



Columba zenaida Bonaparte, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 5, June 

 30, 1825, p. 30 (Florida Keys). 



A female taken at Cayo Grande de Moa, Cuba, on March 6, was 

 preserved as a skeleton, and the following day a male in deeply col- 



