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tion (except on middle pair of rectrices) neutral gray, slightly paler 

 than the gray of basal portion; sides and flanks (beneath wings), 

 axillars, and under wing-coverts neutral gray; bill black; legs and 

 feet hght brownish (lake red in life); length (skins), 246-262 (254); 

 wing, 145.5-151 (148.2); taH, 85-93.5 (89.2); exposed cuhnen, 13- 

 13.5 (13.2); tarsus, 23.5-24 (23.8); middle toe, 21.5-23 (22.3).« 

 Grand Cayman, south of Cuba; Little Cayman? 



Zenaida spadicea Cory, Auk, iii, Oct., 1886, 498,502 (Grand Cayman, south of 

 Cuba; coll. C. B. Cory); iv, 1887, 114; Birds West Ind., 1889, 215; Cat. West 

 Ind. Birds, 1892, 9, 97, 129.— Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxi, 1893, 

 383, footnote. — Nicoll, Ibis, 1904, 587 (Grand Cayman; crit.).— Lowe, Ibis, 

 1909, 341 (Little Cayman; crit.); 1911, 145 (Grand Cayman; Little Cayman). 



[Zenaida] spadicea Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 76. — Forbes and Robinson, 

 Bull. Liverp. Mus., ii, 1900, 137. 



ZENAIDA AURITA (Temminck and Knip). 



MARTINIQITE DOVE. 



Adult male. — Pileum and nape soft brown (walnut brown or roods 

 brown) paler (fawn color {to light mikado brown or nearly avellaneus 

 on forehead; sides of head and upper neck, together with foreneck, 

 cinnamon (clearer in front), passing into white or huffy white on 

 chin and upper thi'oat; chest, breast, and anterior portion of sides 

 dull russet-vinaceous to light grayish vinaceous, passing into pale 

 grayish vinaceous posteriorly, the lower abdomen, anal region, and 

 under tail-coverts white or creamy white; sides (beneath wings), 

 axillars, and proximal under wing-coverts pale bluish gray (gull gray), 

 the distal under wing-coverts darker (deep gull gray) ; a subauricular 

 spot, or streak, of glossy blue-black or steel blue, and, usually at least, 

 a much smaller one on upper edge of auricular region; sides of neck 

 brilliantly glossed with metallic reddish purple and violet, changing 

 to blue; general color of upper parts snuff brown, the proximal 

 secondaries and larger coverts with roundish or oblong black spots, 

 these usually margined posteriorly with white; alulae, primary 

 coverts, primaries, and distal secondaries dull grayish black or dusky, 

 more or less distinctly, though very narrowly, edged with paler, the 

 secondaries broadly tipped with white, the primaries margined 

 terminally with dull whitish or pale grayish; tail crossed by a sub- 

 terminal (postmedian) band of black, this narrower and less distinct 

 (sometimes obsolete) on middle pair of rectrices, the terminal portion 

 of the lateral rectrices passing from white, or grayish white, on the 

 outermost to deep gray on next to middle pair, the basal portion of 

 all deep gray with outer portion of outer web, more or less extensively, 

 brown, except on outermost rectrix, which is usually edged with 

 white; bill black; iris brown; legs and feet lake red (in life); length, 

 234-301 (267); wmg, 141-165.5 (152.3); tail, 88.5-111 (95.2) ; exposed 



o Three specimens. 



