BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 461 



Leptoptila rufinucha Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 162 ("Vera- 

 gua," i. e., Bugaba, Chiriqui, w. Panama; coll. Salvin and Godman). — 

 Salvador!, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxi, 1893, 562 (Volcan de Chiriqui and 

 Boquete, Chiriqui, w. Panama). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., 

 Aves, iii, 1902, 264, pi. 68, fig. 2 (PozoAzulde Pirris, Las Trojas, Alajuela, 

 La Candelaria, Pozo Pital, Tambor, and Pirris, Costa Rica; Volcan de Chi- 

 riqui, Bugaba, and Divala, Panama). — Bangs, Auk, xxiv, 1907, 292 (Bo- 

 ruca and El Pozo, s. w. Costa Rica). 



[Leptoptila] rufinucha Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 134. — 

 Shaepe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 87. 



Leptotila rufinucha Carriker, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vi, 1910, 403 (Las Trojas, 

 Pigres, El General, Boruca, and Buenos Aires, e. w. Costa Rica; habits). 



Engyptila rufinucha Zeledon, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., viii, 1885, 112 (Costa Rica); 

 Anal. Mus. Nac. C. R., i, 1888, 127 (Pozo Azul, Las Trojas, and Alajuela, 

 Costa Rica). — Cherrie, Expl. Zool. Merid. C. R., 1893, 53 (Palmar, Lagarto, 

 Boruca, and Buenos Aires, s. w. Costa Rica). 



LEPTOTILA WELLSI (Lawrence). 



GRENADA DOVE. 



Adult female."' — Forehead buffy viiiaceous-white or very buffy pale 

 vinaceous-fawn color, passing, through light mouse gray on anterior 

 portion of crown, into dark hair brown or fuscous on occiput and 

 nape, this into lighter grayish brown or ohve-brown on hindneck; 

 rest of upper parts plain brownish olive, faintly but distinctly glossed 

 with bronze-green, the alulae, primary coverts, and primaries more 

 decidedly brownish (less olivaceous); tail concolor with back, etc., 

 the lateral rectrices passing into dull black distaUy, the outermost 

 margined at tip with white; malar, suborbital, and auricular regions, 

 foreneck, and upper chest pinkish vinaceous-buff, the rest of under 

 parts (including chin and upper throat) white, passing into pale 

 pinkish buff laterally, the flanks suffused or intermixed with pale buffy 

 brown, the under tad-coverts tinged with pinkish buff, the outer webs of 

 lateral coverts edged with buffy brown; axillars and under wing- 

 coverts light cinnamon, the under surface of remiges similar, passing 

 into brown terminally; bill black; iris pale buff; legs and feet pale 

 (red in life?); wing, 124; tail, 82; exposed culmen, 16; tarsus, 32.5; 

 middle toe, 23.^ 



Island of Grenada, Lesser Antilles. 

 Engyptila wellsi Lawrence, Auk, i, April, 1884, 180 (Grenada; coll. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus.); Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., ix, 1887, 624 (Grenada; crit.).— Cory, Auk, iv, 

 1887, 111 (synonymy; descr.); Birds West Ind., 1889, 212; Cat. West Ind. 

 Birds, 1892, 10, 97, 134.— Wells, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., ix, 1886, 624; List 

 Birds Grenada, 1886, 7.— Clark (A. H.), Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xxxii, 1905, 

 262. 

 [Engyptila] wellsi Cory, List Birds West Ind., rev. ed., 1886, 23. 

 Leptoptila wellsi Salvadori, Cat. Bii'ds Brit. Mus., xxi, 1893, 559 (Grenada). 

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

 Liverp. Mus., ii, 1900, 145. 



a The adult male not seen. It is probably not materially if at all different in 

 coloration from the adult female. 

 b One specimen (the type, and the only example seen). 



