296 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Columha caribbea Gosse, Birds Jamaica, 1847, 291. 



Janthoenas caribaea Reichenbach, fide Bonaparte, Consp. Av., ii, 1857, 54. 



[Patagioenas] caribaea Bonaparte, Consp. Av., ii, 1857, 54. 



P[atagioenas] caribaea Reichenbach, Volls. Naturg., Columbariae, 1861, G5, pL 230 

 b., fig. 3362 (Jamaica). 



Palagioenas caribxa Sclater, Proc. ZooL Soc. Lond., 1861, 80 (Jamaica). — Reich- 

 enbach, Tauben, i, 1862, 65, pL 2306, fig. 3362; ii, 1862, 172.— Albrecht, 

 Journ. fiir Orn., 1862, 204 (Jamaica). 



Columba carribea March, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1863, 301 (Jamaica). 



Columba cariboea Tristram, Cat. ColL Birds, 1889, 37 (Jamaica). 



C[olmnba] lamprauchen Wagler, Syst. Av., 1827, Columba, sp. 46 (Porto Rico; 

 coll. Museum Paris). 



Patagioenas lamprauchen Burmeister, Sy&t. Ueb, Th. Bras., iii, 1856, 294. 



CHLOR(ENAS INORNATA INORNATA (Vigors). 



PLAIN PIGEON. 



Adult male. — Head and neck, all round, and under parts (except 

 posterior flanks, anal region, and under tail-coverts), plain vinaceous- 

 drab, slightly darker on pileum, slightly paler and grayer on forehead; 

 smaller wing-coverts, except anterior portion of lesser covert .area 

 and coverts near edge of wing, vinaceous-brown ; back, scapulars, 

 anterior lesser wing-coverts, and proximal greater coverts and secon- 

 daries, plain grayish brown (hair brown or nearly benzo brown); 

 rump and upper tail-coverts plam bluish gray (dark gull gray), the tail 

 shnilar basally but becoming much darker (deep to dark mouse gray) 

 terminally; smaller wing-coverts near edge of wing, and alulae, simi- 

 lar in color to scapulars, etc., but more grayish, the alulas and distal 

 middle coverts edged with white, the greater coverts (except inner- 

 most ones) more broadly edged with white; secondaries somewhat 

 grayer (sometimes also darker) than scapulars, the distal ones some- 

 times narrowly edged with whitish; primary coverts and primaries 

 rather darker than secondaries, narrowly edged with paler, especially 

 on distal quills, which are sometimes narrowly edged with grayish 

 white; sides and flanks (beneath wings), anal region, and under tail- 

 coverts bluish gray, like color of rump (the longer under tail-coverts 

 sometimes tinged with purplish brown), the axiflars and under wing- 

 coverts similar but slightly paler; bill, including cere, whoUy black; 

 iris with an inner ring of pale blue and an outer one of pale orange, 

 separated by a line of dark blue;" bare orbital space gray;^ legs and 

 feet lakered;'^ length (skin), 413; wing, 223; tail, 143; culmen, 20; 

 tarsus, 28.5; middle toe, 35.'' 



Adult female. — Similar to the adult male but coloration slightly 

 paler and duller, especiaUy the under parts, which incline more to 



« Gosse, Birds Jamaica, 1847, 296, footnote. (The Jamaican form doubtless agreeing 

 with the typical one in color of the eyes, etc.) 

 & One specimen (from Cuba). 



