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BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



(156.7); tail, 97-117 (110.7); exposed culmen, 15-17.5 (16.5); tarsus, 

 29-32.5 (30.7); middle toe, 22.5-25 (23. 6). « 



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

 guishable but usually with the forehead less purely white (tinged 

 with bluish gray), metallic gloss of neck somewhat less bright, and 

 color of foreneck and chest less pinkish (more grayish) ; length (skins), 

 263-317 (295); wing, 151-160 (153.9); tail, 99.5-114 (105.8); exposed 

 culmen, 15.5-17 (16.1); tarsus, 28-31 (29.4); middle toe, 23-24 (23.2)«' 



Jamaica (near Spanish Town; Priestmans River; Moneague; St. 

 Mathews Parish). 



[Columba] jamaicensis Linn^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, i, 1766, 283 (Jamaica; ex. 



Brisson, Orn., i, 134). — Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. 2, 1789, 782. — Latham, 



Index Orn., ii, 1790, 595. 

 Columbajamaicensis Bonn ATERRE, Tabl. Enc. M^tli., 1790, 236. — Temminck, Pig. 



et Gallin., i, 1813,411, part. — Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., xxvi, 1818, 



398.— Desmarest, Diet. Sci. Nat., xl, 1826, 307, part.— Denny, Proc. Zool. 



Soc.Lond.,1837,39. 

 C[olumba] jamaicensis Temminck, Hist. Nat. Pig. et Gallin., i, 1813, 495, part 



("America Australi"). 

 Col [umba] jamaicensis Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., xl, 1855, 99. 

 Goura jamaicensis Stephens, Shaw's Gen. Zool., xi, 1819, 126. 

 Peristera jamaicensis Selby, Nat. Libr., v, Pigeons, 1835, 207, part.— :Gosse, 



Birds Jamaica, 1847, 313; Naturalist's Soj. in Jamaica, 1851, 173. — Gray, 



List Birds Brit. Mus., Columbse, 1856, 53. — Albrecht, Joiirn. fiir Orn., 1862, 



204. 

 [Leptoptila] jamaicensis Reichenbach, Av. Syst. Nat., 1852, p. xxv; Tauben, i, 



1861, 24.— Bonaparte, Consp. Av., ii, 1857, 73; Icon. Pig., 1857, pi. 119.— 



Gray, Iland-Ust, ii, 1870, 242, no. 9379. — Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. 



Neotr., 1873, 133. — Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 87.— Forbes and Robinson, 



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

 L[eptoptila] jamaicensis Reichenbach, VoUst. Naturg., Columbariae, i, 1861, 24. 

 Leptoptila jaw.aicensis March, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1863, 302. — Sclater and 



Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1868, 60. — Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 



xxi, 1893, 557. — Sclater, Revised List Birds Jam., 1910, 19. 

 Leptopila jamaicensis Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas. iv, no. 35 (Cohimbae), 1873, 158, 



part (Jamaica). 



o Nine specimens. 



b Seven specimens. 



Locality. 



MAXES. 



Nine adult males of L. jamaicensis. . . 



Two arlult males of i. collaris 



One adult male of L. neoxena 



Five adult males of L. gaumeri 



FEMALES. 



Seven adult females of L. jamaicensis 



Two adult females of L. collaris 



One adult female of L. neoxena 



Middle 

 toe. 



23.6. 

 23.7 

 22 

 23 



23.2 



23 



23 



