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BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM, 



Rio Indio near Gatun; Cerro Aztil at 1,000 ft.; Lion Hill), and adja- 

 cent portion of northern Colombia (Turbo; Rio Truando). 



Leptoptila verreauxi (not of Bonapai'te) Cassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1860, 

 175 (Turbo and Rio Truando, Colombia). — Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., 

 vii, 1862, 333 (Ptio Truando). 



Leptoptila cassini Lawrence, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1867, 94 (line of Panama 

 R. R., coll. G. N. Lawrence).— Newton, Ibis, 1868, 230 (crit.).— Salvin, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1870, 217 (Bugaba and Volcan de Chiriqui, w. 

 Panama). — Rowley, Orn. Misc., iii, pt. xii, 1878, 79, pi. 93 (nest and eggs). — 

 Salvador:, Cat. Bii-ds Brit. Mus., xxi, 1893, 560, part (Lion Hill; Montana 

 del Vermejo, Veragua, Panama). — Bangs, Proc. New Engl. Zool. Club, ii, 

 1900, 15 (Lomadel Leon, Panama). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., 

 Aves, iii, 1902, 262, part, pi. 68, fig. 1 (Montana de Vermejo, Lion Hill, and 

 Lagunadel Pita, Panama; Turbo and Rio Truando, n. w. Colombia). 



L[eptoptild] cassini Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1868, 60. 



[Leptoptila] cassini Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 243, no. 9387. — Sclater and Salvin, 

 Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 134, part.— Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 87, part.— 

 Forbes and Robinson, Bull. Liverp. Mus., ii, 1900 (Panama). 



L[eptoptila] cassini cassini Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xxii, March 10, 1909, 30, 

 in text. 



LEPTOTILA CASSINI CERVINIVENTRIS (Sclater and Salvin). 



VINACEOTJS-BREASTED DOVE. 



Similar to L. c. cassini but coloration decidedly darker throughout, 

 the neck and chest less purely gray, under parts browner laterally, 

 breast, etc., more strongly (and usually more extensively) vinaceous 

 fawn color, and upper parts browner (the occiput and nape olive-brown 

 to nearly natal brown) ; dark phase distinguished from that of L. c. 

 cassini, by more deeply or extensively vinaceous fawn colored breast. 



Adult male.— LQTigih (skins), 239-271 (253); wing, 126-139 (132.2); 

 tail, 77-96 (86.7); exposed culmen, 13.5-16 (15), tarsus, 29-34 (31.2); 

 middle toe, 22.5-26 (24.2).« 



Adult female.— Length, (skins), 231-269 (248); wing, 124.5-138 

 (130.8); tail, 72-99 (84.5); exposed culmen, 13.5-16.5 (15.1); tarsus, 

 29-32 (31); middle toe, 22-25 (23.8).^ 



« Twenty-four specimens. & Twenty-one specimens. 



Locality. 



Middle 

 toe. 



MALES. 



Twelve adult males from Costa Rica 



Six adult males from Nicaragua 



Three adult males from Honduras 



Three adult males from British Honduras. 



FEMALES. 



Ten adult females from Costa Rica 



Seven adult females from Nicaragua 



Two adult females from Honduras 



Two adult females from British Honduras 



24.4 

 24.5 

 24.2 

 23.3 



23.9 

 24.1 

 22.7 

 23.2 



