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BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



CHiEMEPELIA PASSERINA BAHAMENSIS (Maynard). 



BAHAMA GROTJND DOVE. 



Similar to C p. ajlavida but coloration slightly paler, posterior 

 under parts with more of white, and bill with less of reddish at base, 

 often wholly black. 



Adult male.— Length (skins), 155-176 (165); wing, 79-84 (81.5); 



tail, 53-60 (56) ; exposed culmen, 10-12 (10.8); tarsus, 15-16 (15.6).« 



Adult female.— Length (skins), 146-170 (154); wing, 81-84 (82); 



tail, 53-59 (56.5); exposed culmen, 10.5-12 (11); tarsus, 15-16 



(15.4).« 



Bahamas (Great Bahama; Abaco; Little Abaco;^ Biminis;^ Berry 

 Islands;^ Eleuthera; New Providence; Andros; Cat Island; Concep- 

 cion; Watling Island; Rum Cay; Long Island;^ Green Cay; Ackhn 

 Island;^ Plana Cay;^ Maragauna; Miraporvos;^ Caicos Islands; Cur- 

 rent Island;^ Bird Rock; Great Guana Cay; Great Sale Cay;^ Elbow 

 Cay ;^ Moraine Cay ;^ Stranger Cay ^) and Bermudas. Accidental on 

 east coast of Florida (Enterprise) ? 



Chamoepelia passerina (not Columba passerina Linnaeus) Jardine, Contr. Om., 

 1849, 79 (Bermuda).— HuRDis, Jardine's Contr. Orn., 1850, 6 (Bermuda).— 

 Reid, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 25, 1884, 225 (Bermuda, abundant resident; 

 habits, etc.). 

 Chamxpelia passerina Bryant, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., vii, 1859, 120 (Bahamas). — 

 Albrecht, Journ. fiir Om., 1861, 55 (Bahamas). — Baird, Am. Journ. Sci. 

 and Arts, xli, 1866, 188, part (Bahamas); Ibis, 1867, 276, part (Bahamas).— 

 Wallace, Geog. Distr. Anim., ii, 1876, 135 (Bermuda). — Cory, Birds 



o Ten specimens. 



Locality. 



MALES. 



One adult male from Abaco Island 84 55 10.5 15.5 



Three adult males from New Providence Island 80.7 56 10.7 15.3 



Two adult males from Eleuthera Island 82 56 11.7 16 



Two adult males from Rum Cay 81.5 56 11 16 



Two adult males from Bermudas 81 57 10 15 



FEMALES. 



One adult female from Abaco Island 84 58 11 15 



Three adult females from New Providence Island 82. 3 57. 3 10. 8 15. 5 



One adult female from Eleuthera Island 84 53 12 15.5 



One adult female from Green Cay 81 57 11.5 15 



One adult female from Watling Island 81 57 11.5 15.5 



One adult female from Rum Cay 81 55 11 16 



Two adult females from Bermudas 82 57 10.5 15.2 



6 Specimens from these islands have not been compared. Taken as a whole, this 



is the least satisfactory of all the recognized forms of the species. It is very close to 

 C. p. ajlavida and may, possibly, have to be united to that form. (See Mr. Todd's 

 remarks in Ann. Carnegie Mus., viii, pp. 570, 571). 



Tarsus. 



