BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 311 



Kico, Vieque Island, Virgin Gorda, and St. Croix. Lesser Antilles: 

 St. Bartholomew, Barbuda, Antigua, Montserrat, Dominica, and 

 Guadeloupe. Swan Island and Old Providence Island, Caribbean Sea. 

 Yucatan (Cozumel Island; La Vega). British Hondm-as (HaH Moon 

 Cay; Glovers Cay; Ivliddle Cay; Turneff Island). Honduras (Bay of 

 Honduras; Ruatan Island) . "Panama." 



[Columha] leucocephala Linn^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, i, 1758, 164 (Bahamas; 

 based on Columha capite albo, Catesby, i, pi. 25; Sloane, ii, p. 303, pi. 261); 

 ed. 12, i, 1766, 281.— Omelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. 2, 1789, 772.— Latham, Index 

 Om., ii, 1790, 594.— Reichenbach, Syn. Av., 1847, figs. 1257, 1258; S}ti. Av. 

 Novit., Columbariae, 1851, figs. 2863, 2864.— Gray, Hand-Ust, ii, 1870, 234, 

 no. 9257.— CouES, Key to N. Am. Birds, 1872, 225.— Sclater and Salvin, 

 Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 132.— Cory, List Birds West Ind., rev. ed., 1886, 23.— 

 Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 1899, 70.— Forbes and Robinson, BulL Liverp. 

 Mus., ii, 1900, 132 (Jamaica). 

 Columha leucocephala Temminck, Pigeons, i, fam. secondc, 1808-11, 57 [101], 

 pL 13 (Jamaica; Santo Domingo; Bahamas; Porto Rico). — Temminck, Hist. 

 Nat. Pig. et Gallin., i, 1813, 204, 459 (Jamaica; Santo Domingo; Bahamas; 

 Porto Rico).— ViEiLLOT, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., xxvi, 1818, 367; Gal. Ois., 

 i, 1825, 331, pL 194.— Bonaparte, Ann. Lye. N. Y., ii, 1826, 119; Am. Om., 

 ii, 1828, 11, pi. 17, fig. 1; Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 41.— Nuttall, Man. Om. 

 U. S. and Can., Land Birds, 1832, 625; 2d ed., 1840, 755.— Wilson and Bona- 

 parte, Am. Om., iii, 1832, 467, pi. 17, fig. 1.— Audubon, Om. Biog., ii, 1834, 

 443, pi. 177; v. 1839, 557; SjTiopsis, 1839, 191; Birds Am., oct. ed., iv, 1842, 

 315, pi. 280.— D'Orbigny, in La Sagra's Hist. Nat. Cuba, Ois., 1839, 171 

 (large ed., p. 126).— Gosse, Birds Jamaica, 1847, 299.— Salle, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 Lond., 1857, 235 (Santo Domingo; habits).— Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., 

 ix, 1858, 599 (Indian Key and Tortugas, Fla.); Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 

 447.— Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1859, 61 (cays off coast of Belize, Brit, 

 Honduras).— Bryant, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., vii, 1859, 119 (Bahamas; breed- 

 ing); xi, 1867, 96 (Santo Domingo).— Salvin and Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 222 (coast 

 of Honduras).- Albrecht, Joum. fur Om., 1861, 55 (Bahamas).— March, 

 Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1863, 301 (Jamaica; crit.).— Taylor, Ibis, 1864, 171 

 (Porto Rico).— Salvin, Ibis, 1864, 380 (Half Moon Cay, Brit. Honduras) ; 1885, 

 193 (Cozumel I., Yucatan); 1889, 377 (Cozumel I., Yucatan; Ruatan I., 

 Honduras).— Sundevall, (Efv. k. Vet.-Ak. Forh., 1869, 585 (St. Bartholo- 

 mew), 600 (Porto Rico).— Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, iv, no. 35 (Columbae), 

 1873, 68 (Santo Domingo; Panama).— Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 369, 2d ed., 

 1882, no. 541. — Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, iii, 1874, 

 363, pi. 57, fig. 3.— Lawrence, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 1878, 241 (Barbuda); 

 i, 1879, 487 (Barbuda; Antigua).— Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, 1880, 

 195; Nom. N. Am. Bii-ds, 1881, no. 458; Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., v, 1888, 577 (Swan 

 I., Caribbean Sea); Auk, viu, 1891, 339 (Green Cay, Bahamas).— Cory, 

 Birds Bahama Is., 1880, 137 (New Providence; Andros; Biminis; Buena 

 Vista Cay; Ragged Islands; Long Rock, near Exuma Cay); Bull. Nutt. Om. 

 Club, vi, 1881, 154 (interior of Haiti); Birds Haiti and San Dom., 1885, 134 

 (Puerta Plata, Santo Domingo); Auk, iv, 1887, 108 (synonymy; descr.; West 

 Indian range), 180 (Old Providence I., Caribbean Sea); vi, 1889, 32 (Cayman 

 Brae); vii, 1890, 375 (Vii-gin Gorda); viii, 1891, 47 (Antigua; St. Croix), 295 

 (Berry Islands), 296 (Bimini Islands), 297 (Caicos Islands); ix, 1892, 48 (Mara- 

 guana I., Bahamas), 272 (Cuba); Birds West Ind., 1889, 209; Cat. West Ind. 

 Birds, 1892, 98 (West Indian range).— Tristram, Ibis, 1884, 168 (Santo Do- 



