BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 451 



case intergradation between the two supposed species should actually 

 be found to exist, the northern forms would have to be called Lepto- 

 tila verreauxi fulvifrons, Leptotila verreauxi hrachyptera, and Leptotila 

 verreauxi capitalis. 



Western shore of Lake Nicaragua (Sucuja) and island of Ometepe, 

 in Lake Nicaragua. 



Engyptila verreauxi (not Leptoptila verreauxi Bonaparte) Nutting, Proc. U. S. 



Nat. Mus., vi, 1883, 389 (Siicuya, Nicaragua), 396 (Ometepe, Nicaragua). 

 Leptotila verreauxi nutiingi Ridgway, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xxviii, May 27, 



1915, 107 (Ometepe, Nicaragua; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). 



LEPTOTILA FULVIVENTRIS FULVIVENTRIS (Lawrence). 



BUFF-BELLIED DOVE. 



Adult male. — Forehead pale vinaceous-buff to pale vinaceous-fawn 

 color, deepening posteriorly, through a more grayish hue on crown, 

 into light brownish drab on occiput and nape, which are faintly 

 glossed with bronze or purple, the brownish drab passing laterally 

 into nearly vinaceous-drab on supra-auricular region; hindneck 

 lighter and more ohvaceous, brightly glossed with metallic purple 

 and bronze; rest of upper parts plain ohvaceousdrab, the extreme 

 upper back faintly glossed with bronze or bronze-green; alulae, 

 primary coverts, and primaries deep grayish brown, very narrowly 

 and indistinctly edged with paler, the edgings on distal portion of 

 longer primaries more distinct and whitish; middle rectrices nearly 

 concolor with back, sometimes shghtly darker subterminally and 

 paler terminally, the rest brown or grayish brown basally, dull brown- 

 ish black subterminally and white at tip, both the white and the 

 black increasing in extent toward the outermost rectrix, the outer 

 web of which is narrowly edged with white; loral, suborbital, and 

 auricular regions, sides of neck, foreneck, and chest dull light vina- 

 ceous-fawn color, fading into nearly white on chin and upper throat, 

 deepest on foreneck and upper chest (where approaching Hght 

 cinnamon-drab or light pinkish cinnamon-drab), passing into a 

 lighter and more pinkish hue (Hght vinaceous-fawn or light vinaceous- 

 buff) on breast, this passing into light pinkish cinnamon or pinkish 

 buff on inner portion of sides and flanks (which are more brownish, 

 more or less wood brown or avellaneous, outwardly), the abdomen, 

 anal region, and under tail-coverts very pale buff or buffy white, the 

 last often suffused with pinkish buff, especially on shorter (more 

 anterior) coverts; axillars and under wing-coverts rufous-brown 

 (mikado brown or pecan brown) ; under surface of remiges deep 

 grayish brown, the edges of inner webs paler for proximal half (more 



