BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



415 



C[olumbigallina] passerina socorrensis? (not C. p. socorroensis Ridgway) Hartert, 



Ibis, 1893, 305, in text (Porto Rico). 

 Chamxpelia portoricensis Lowe, Ibis, 9tli ser., ii, Jan., 1908, 108 (Guanica, Porto 



Rico; coll. P. R. Lowe). 

 C[hamxpclia] portoricensis Lowe, Ibis, 1908, 545, in text (St. Thomas; crit.). 

 Chamsepelia jamaicensis (not of Maynard) Lowe, Ibis, 1908, 111, part (St. Thomas; 



St. Christopher; Dominica; crit.). 



CH^MEPELIA PASSERINA AFLAVIDA (Palmer and Riley). 



CUBAN GROUND DOVE. 



Intermediate in coloration between C. p. antiUarum and C. p. 

 trocJiila, but color of bill (in life) very different from either, being 

 black to base, where washed or tinged with crimson. 



Adult male. — Length (skins), 156-178 (165); wing, 77-86 (81); 

 tail, 55-61 (58); exposed culmen, 10.5-12 (11.2); tarsus, 15-16.5 

 (15.6).'^ 



Adult female.— Length (skins), 160-166 (164); wing, 81-85 (83.5); 

 tail, 54-60 (57); exposed culmen, 11-12 (11.6); tarsus, 15-16 (15.4). « 



Cuba (Havana; Pinar del Rio; Trinidad; Guama; El Cobre; Hol- 

 guin; San Diego de los Baiios; Remedios; La Catchina near Tagua; 

 Monteverde; Guanajay; Santiago de Cuba; Guantanamo Bay; 

 Figuabas), Isle of Pines (Jucaro; Hospitdl; Nueva Gerona; San 

 Juan; Callebonita; McKinley; Santa Barbara), and Haiti (Jacmel, 

 Le Coup, and Port-au-Prince, Haiti; Catare, Honduras, Sanchez, 

 San Cristobal, La Vega, Maniel, Fuerte Resoli, Santa Domingo, and 

 Puerta Plata, Santo Domingo). Casual on Grand Cajmian and in 

 Jamaica (Spanishtown). 



[Columba] passerina Linn^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, i, 1766, 285, part (Santo Do- 

 mingo, ex Brisson). 



Columba passerina Temminck, in Temminck and Knip, Pigeons, i, 1808-11, 

 Colombi-gallines, 24, part, pis. 13, 14 (Santo Domingo); Hist. Nat. Pig. et 

 Gallin., i, 1813, 425, part (Santo Domingo); PL Col., i, Tabl. Meth., 1838, 

 81. — ViEiLLOT, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., xxvii, 1818, 401, pai't (Santo Do- 

 mingo); Gal. Ois., i, 1825, 333, part, pi. 196 (Santo Domingo). — Hearne, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1834, 110 (Haiti).— Ritter, Reise nach Haiti, 1836, 



a Ten specimens. 



Locality. 



MALES. 



Five adult males from Cuba 



Two adult males from Isle of Pines 



Three adult males from Haiti 



FEMALES. 



Seven adult females from Cuba 



Two adult females from Isle of Pines 



One adult female from Haiti 



15.9 

 15.5 

 15.3 



15.5 



15 



16 



