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Adult Tnale. — Wing, 140; tail, 86.5; exposed culmen (bill broken); 

 tarsus 30: middle toe, 22." 



Adult female. — Wing, 136; tail (imperfect); exposed cubnen, 15; 

 tarsus, 30; middle toe, 23 ." 



St. Andrews Island, Caribbean Sea. 



Engyptila ncoxena Cory, Auk, iv, July [separates issued May 28], 1887, 179, 181 

 (reprint, p. 3) (St. Andrews Island, Caribbean Sea; coll. C. B. Cory). 



Leptoptila neoxena Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxi, 1893, 559, footnote. 



[Leptoptila] neoxena Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 87. — Forbes and Robinson, 

 Bull. Liverp. Mus., ii, 1900, 145. 



LEPTOTILA GAUMERI (Lawrence). 



GAUMER'S DOVE. 



Similar to L. jamaicensis but upper parts much lighter or grayer, 

 primaries strongly tinged with russet (except distally ) , metalhc gloss 

 of neck usually less reddish (more bronzy and greenish), vinaceous of 

 foreneck and chest decidedly deeper and extended backward along 

 sides, and size decidedly smaller (except bill) . 



Adult male. — Forehead and anterior portion of crown white, pas- 

 sing into gray on hinder crown and occiput, this usually more or less 

 glossed with metallic purple or bronze; whole hindneck and sides 

 of neck (except laterally) metaUic bronzy purple or purplish bronze, 

 becoming more golden, greenish, or even bluish on extreme lower 

 portion of hindneck; rest of upper parts plain grayish brown, more 

 brownish anteriorly (sometimes approaching hght bister, but usually 

 more nearly deep drab), light ohve-brown or hair brown posteriorly, 

 the middle rectrices sometimes still grayer (mouse gray); distal sec- 

 ondaries narrowly edged with pale cinnamon or brownish white; pri- 

 maries darker grayish brown, indistinctly edged with pale brownish, 

 these edgings passing into whitish on distal portion of longer quills; 

 chin and throat white passing into pale vinaceous-fawn on malar and 

 suborbital regions, sides of neck, foreneck, and chest, fading gradually 

 into white on abdomen, posterior flanks, anal region, and under tail- 

 coverts; rectrices (except middle pair) slate-gray passing into dark 

 slate or slate-blackish subapicaUy, and tipped with white, this in- 

 creasing in width toward the outermost rectrix, which is narrowly 

 edged with white; axillars, under wing-coverts, and inner webs of 

 remiges (except apicaUy) plain cinnamon-rufous; biU black; legs and 

 feet pale brownish (lake red or pinkish in hfe); length (skins), 255- 

 277 (267); wing, 137-148.5 (144.1); tail, 91.5-97.5 (95); exposed cul- 

 men, 17-17.5 (17.3); tarsus, 28.5-29 (28.9); middle toe, 22.5-23.5 (23).* 



Adult female. — Similar to the adult male and probably not always 

 distinguishable, but usually (?) slightly duller in coloration.*' 



o One specimen. 



b Five specimens. 



c In the considerable series examined most of the specimens are of undetermined 

 sex, and there are none which are marked as female. There are, however, some 

 specimens which are appreciably duller in color than any of the five males, and these 

 are probably females. 



