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Adult rmle.— Length (skins), 261-296 (276); wing, 144.5-156 

 (151.6); tail, 83.5-95 (90); exposed culmen, 11.5-14.5 (12.6); tar- 

 sus, 32-37 (34); middle toe, 22-25.5 (23.8).« 



Adultfemale. — Length (skin), 272; wing, 155; tail, 93.5; exposed 

 culmen, 14.5; tarsus, 35.5; middle toe, 22.^ 



Cuba (Remedios; Cayo Yaguajusta; San Cristobal). 



Columba caniceps Gundlach, Journ. Bost. Soc. N. H., Ad, 1852, 315 (Cuba); 

 Journ. fiir Orn., 1870, 282. 



Geotrygon caniceps Cabanis, Journ. fiir Orn., 1856, 110 (Cuba; habits). — Gund- 

 lach, Journ. fur Orn., 1861, 416 (crit.); 1862, 189 (crit.); 1874, 295 (habits); 

 Contr. Orn. Cubana, 1876, 135 (habits; descr. eggs); Orn. Cubana, ed. 1895, 

 163 (habits; descr. eggs).— Brewer, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H.,,vii, 1860, 307.— 

 Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lend., 1867, 130.— Cory, Auk, iv, 1887, 118 (synon- 

 ymy; descr.); Birds West Ind., 1889, 219; Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 10, 

 97, 128.— Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxi, 1893, 574 (San Cristobal, 

 Cuba). 



[Geotrygon] caniceps Gundlach, Journ. fiir Orn., 1861, 336; Rept. Fis.-Nat. Cuba, 

 i, 1866, 300.— Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 243, no. 9399.— Sclater and Salvin, 

 Nona. Av. Neotr., 1873, 134.— Cory, List Birds West Ind., rev. ed., 1886, 24.— 

 Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 88. — Forbes and Robinson, Bull. Liverp. Mus., 

 ii, 1900, 146. 



0[reopeleia] caniceps Reichenbach, Vollst. Naturg., Columbariae, i, 1861, 32; ii, 

 1862, 165, Novit., pi. 1, fig. 7. 



OREOPELEIA CHRYSIA (Bonaparte). 



KEY WEST QUAIL-DOVE. 



Adult male. — Pileum and nape cameo bro^vn or walnut brown, but 

 this overlaid, except on foreliead, by metallic green and purple; 

 upper liindneck metallic coppery bronze, the lower hindncck metallic 

 green passing into blue or greenish blue on extreme lower portion; 

 back, scapulars, and lesser wing-coverts deep reddish brown (prus- 

 sian red) highly glossed with metallic purple, changing to blue or 

 greenish blue on extreme upper back; rest of upper parts deep red- 

 dish brown (nearly prussian red) , much duller (nearly buff y brown) 

 on greater wing-coverts, proximal secondaries, and tips of primaries; 

 a broad wliite stripe originating at malar antia and extending back- 

 ward, beneath eye, to end of auricular region; beneath this a narrow 

 stripe of chestnut or walnut brown; chin and upper throat white, 

 passing into pale vinaceous-drab, tinged with pale vinaceous, on 

 lower tlu-oat, foreneck, sides of neck, chest, and breast, fading into 

 buffy white on abdomen, the sides and flanks tinged with brown; 

 under tail-coverts dull buffy whitish, passing into light buffy brown- 

 ish on basal portion (mostly concealed) ; under surface of wing 

 cinnamon-rufous; tip of bill horn color, the basal portion carmine;*' 

 iris carmine^ or orange-yeUow;** eyelids carmine;" legs and feet flesh 



o Six specimens. c Audubon. 



b One specimen. d Menegaux, Rev. Frang. d'Om., no. 2, 1909, 30. 



