382 BULLETIN" 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Costa Rica). — Field, Auk, xi, 1894, 123 (Jamaica). — Cherrie, Contr. Orn, 

 San Dom., 1896, 24.— Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., viii, 1896, 287 

 (Chichen-Itza, Yucatan; habits; voice). — Beyer, Proc. La. Soc. Nat. for 

 1897-99 (1900), 98 (Grand Isle, Louisiana, May, 1894, and Aug., 1895).— 

 Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, iii, 1902, 245, part (Matamoros 

 and Tampico, Tamaulipas; Juchitan, Juchatengo, Tapana, Tehuantepec, 

 and La Parada, Oaxaca; Cliichen-Itza, Merida, Izamal, Mugeres I., and 

 Coziunel I., Yucatan; San Jose Solola, Volcan de Agua, Duenas, and San 

 Geronimo, Guatemala; Omoa, San Pedro, and Comayagua, Honduras; La 

 Libertad, Salvador; Omotepe, Sucuya, and San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua; 

 San Jose, San Mateo, La Palma de Nicoya, San Lucas, Bebedero, Bagaces, 

 and Miravalles, Costa Rica; Jamaica). — Dearborn, Pub. 125, Field Mus. 

 N. H., 1907, 79 (El Ranclio and near Tecpam, Guatemala). — Beyer, Allison, 

 and Kopman, Auk, xxv, 1908, 440 (Grand Isle, Louisiana, May, 1904, and 

 Aug., 1895).— Verrill (A. E. and A. H.), Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1909, 

 357 (Santo Domingo). — McAtee, Auk, xxviii, 1911, 274 (Venice, Louisiana, 

 1 pair, Nov. 20, 1910). 



M[elopelia] leucoptera Newton (A. and E.), Handb. Jamaica, 1881, 114. — Coues, 

 Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 569, part.— Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 

 1887, 214, part. 



M[elopeleia] leucoptera Reichenbach, Vollst. Naturg., Columbariae, i, 1861, 22, 

 pi. 254 (clix), fig. 1417, pi. 255, fig. 2869, part (Jamaica; Texas); ii, 1862, 164 



[Melopeleia] leucoptera Coues, Key to N. Am. Birds, 1872, 226, part. 



Melopeleia leucoptera Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 373, part. 



Chamaepelia leucoptera Giebel, Thes. Orn., i, 1872, 634, part. 



CoZttTO6a aunto (not of Temminck, 1808-11) Temminck, Hist. Nat. Pig.etGallin.,i, 

 1813, 247, 467, part. 



Melopelia asiatica australis Peters, Auk, xxx, July, 1913, 372, footnote (Cerro de 

 Santa Maria, Costa Rica; coll. E. A. and O. Bangs). 



Columha trvdeauii AvDVBOt^ , Birds Am., oct. ed., vii, 1844, 352, pi. 496 (Texas). o — 

 Cabot, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., i, 1844, 183 (Yucatan). 



[Zenaida] trudeaui Reichenbach, Syn. Av. Novit. Columbariae, 1851, fig. 2869. 



Melopelia asiatica trudeaui Mearns, Auk, xxviii, Oct., 1911, 490, in text, part. — 

 American Ornithologists' L^nion Committee, Auk, xxix, 1912, 381, part. — 

 Peters, Auk, xxx, 1913, 372 (Camp Mengel, Quintana Roo; crit.). 



MELOPELIA ASIATICA MEARNSI Ridgway. 



WESTERN WHITE-WINGED DOVE. 



Similar to M. a. asiatica but averaging decidedly larger and colora- 

 tion paler and grayer, the foreneck and chest light drab to hair brown 

 instead of fawn color, the back, etc., hair brown to deep drab. 



Adult male. —LQiigih (skins), 274-313 (286) ; wing, 152-171.5 (164.3); 

 tail, 101.5-121.5 (114.7); exposed culmen, 18.5-23.5 (22.5); tarsus, 

 23.5-26.5 (25.5); middle toe, 24-27.5 (26.2).* 



o The precise locality was unknown to Audubon; but since both his description 

 and colored plate agree better with the smaller, more deeply colored Eastern form, 

 the type almost certainly came from the Lower Rio Grande Valley. 



& Thirty specimens. 



