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ee. Coloration averaging slightly paler, with upper parts more grayish; averag- 

 ing slightly larger (wing averaging 149.4 in male, 142.3 in female). 

 (Arid region of western North America, northward in the interior to 



Mackenzie . ) Zenaidura macroura marginella (p . 347) . 



dd. Color of forehead and superciliary region (in adult male) conspicuously 

 darker than that of chest (forehead, etc., bright fawn color or sayal brown, 

 chest light vinaceous-fawn color) . (Tres Marias Islands, western Mexico.) 



Zenaidura macroura tresmarise (p. 351). 



6&. Tarsus 27 mm. or more; under parts, including under tall-coverts, bright 



mikado brown or deep orange-cinnamon; distal portion of lateral rectrices 



gray. (Socorro Island, western Mexico.) Zenaidura graysoni (p. 352). 



aa. Secondaries broadly tipped with white. (Yucatan.) 



Zenaidura yucatanensis (p. 353). 



ZENAIDURA MACROURA MACROURA (Linnaeus). 



CUBAN MOURNING DOVE. 



Adult male. — Forehead and superciliary region fawn color to deep" 

 avellaneous, usually paler on anterior portion of forehead, passing 

 into duU slate-gray, neutral gray, or mouse gray on occiput (more or 

 less extensively) ; "■ hindneck brownish gray or grayish brown (nearly 

 hair brown), the lateral portions (sometimes also lower posterior 

 portion) highly glossed with metallic purple (bronzy hght rosolane 

 purple) or purphsh bronze; back, scapulars, upper tail-coverts, wing- 

 coverts, and proximal secondaries grayish brown (deep drab to deep 

 buffy brown) , the rump similar but usually grayer, passing into slate- 

 grayish laterally; proximal secondaries, usually also proximal greater 

 coverts, with a greater or less number of rather large subquadrate and 

 roundish black spots; distal secondaries, primaries, primary coverts, 

 and alulae neutral gray to deep neutral gray, the primaries narrowly 

 edged with white, these edgings broader on outermost quills; middle 

 pair of rectrices similar in color to back, etc., but usually rather 

 grayer, sometimes darkening terminally; next pair grayer (some- 

 times nearly pure neutral gray or slate-gray), with a more or less 

 distinct (usually oblique) dusky bar across middle portion of inkier 

 web; third pair similar but with the dusky (or black) bar more 

 distinct, extending across more or less of outer web (the bar more 

 or less /y-shaped), and the apical portion of the feather paler gray; 

 fourth and fifth pairs with the black bar broader, extending entirely 

 across both webs, and with the gray of apical portion passing into 

 grayish white terminally; sixth pair similar to fifth but apical portion 

 mostly white; seventh (outermost) pair similar but with outer web 

 entirely white; general color of underparts vinaceous-fawn color, 

 deeper (sometimes nearly fawn color) on foreneck and chest, becoming 

 much paler (deep pinkish buff to pale buff) on chin and upper throat, 

 posteriorly passing, through light pinkish cinnaman on abdomen 



a Sometimes this gray color invades the posterior portion of the crown and upper 

 nape. 



