BIRDS OF NOETH AND MIDDLE AMEEICA. 315 



St. Vincent; Mustique; Grenada). — ^Riley, Smitlison. Misc. Coll., xlvii, 

 1904, 280 (Antigua).— NicoLL, Ibis, 1904, 566 (Grenada).— Bangs and Zap- 

 PEY, Am. Nat., xxxix, 1905, 197 (Isle of Pines). — Clark, Proc. Best. Soc. 

 N. H., xxxii, 1905, 259 (Barbados; St. Vincent; Grenada; Grenadines; 

 habits; descr. nest and eggs); West Ind. Bull., xi, no. 3, 1911, 183 (Santa 

 Lucia). — American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 3rd ed., 1910, 

 148. — ^Ramsden, Auk, xxx, 1913, 271 (Sierra del Maquey, near Guantanamo, 

 Cuba, Dec, numerous). 



[Columba] squamosa Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 70. — Forbes and Robinson, 

 Bull. Liverp. Mus., ii, 1900, 132 (Santa Lucia; "Coban, Guatemala"). 



Columba portoricensis Temminck and Knip, Pigeons, i, fam. seconde, 1808-11, 

 41, pi. 15 (Porto Rico).« — D'Orbigny, in La Sagra's Hist. Nat. Cuba, Ois., 

 1839, 172 (large ed., p. 127), pi. 27.— Reichenbach, Syn. Av. Novit., Co- 

 lumbai-iae, 1847, fig. 2581.— Hartert, Ibis, 1893, 332 (Bonaire; crit.; habits); 

 Novit. Zool., ix, 1902, 304 (Bonaire).— Cory, Pub. 137, Field Mus. N. H., 

 1909, 210 (Bonaire; fresh colors of unfeathered parts). 



Columba monticola Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., xxvi, 1818, 355 (Santo 

 Domingo; Porto Rico; cites C. corensis Latham). 



C[olumba] imbricata Wagler, Syst. Av., 1827, Columba, sp. 48 (Santo Domingo, 

 Porto Rico, and Venezuela; coll. Paris Mus.). 



Patagioenas imbricata Burmeister, Syst. Ueb. Th. Bras., iii, 1856, 294. 



Genus LEPIDCENAS Reichenbach. 



Lepidoenas Reichenbach, Av. Syst. Nat., 1852, p. xxv. (Type, Columba spedosa 



Gmelin.) 

 Lepidoenas (emendation) Bonaparte, Ann. Sci. Nat., Zool., (2), i, 1854, 140. 



Medium-sized arboreal pigeons (length about 275-340 mm.) with 

 tail less than two-thirds as long as wing, exposed culmen much longer 

 than distance from its base to anterior angle of eye, frontal antise 

 extending only to base of nasal operculi, and whole neck conspicu- 

 ously spotted and squamated. 



Bill relatively large, the length of exposed culmen much greater 

 than distance from its base to anterior angle of eye, the maxillary 

 tomium with an obvious sub terminal notch; frontal feathering ex- 

 tending only to base of nasal operculi, the latter very broad and 

 strongly vaulted. Wing rather large, pointed, the longest primaries 

 exceeding distal secondaries by decidedly more than one-third the 

 length of wing; second, or second and third, primaries (from outside) 

 longest, the first equal to or longer than fourth; two outer primaries 

 with inner webs very faintly sinuated, the outermost slightly but 

 decidedly bowed distally. Tail between two-thirds and one-half 

 as long as wing, very slightly rounded, the rectrices relatively rather 

 broad, broadly rounded at tip, decidedly rigid. Tarsus decidedly 

 shorter than middle toe, stout, the acrotarsium with two longitudi- 

 nal rows of large hexagonal scutaUa, the planta tarsi covered with 

 distinct small roundish scales, only the extreme upper portion of 



o According to Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, iv, no. 35 (Columbae), p. 68, the type is said 

 to be in the Leyden Museum, and from Haiti. 



