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BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



color, the scutella carmine or lake red; length (skins), 273-311 (284); 

 wing, 150-159 (153.7); tail, 91-102 (95.4); exposed culmen, 14.5-19.5 

 (16.7); tarsus, 27.5-29.5 (28.8); middle toe, 23-25.5 (23.8) .« 



Adult female. — Similar to the adult male but reddish brown sub- 

 malar stripe somewhat duller or less intense, middle and greater 

 wing-coverts, posterior scapulars, and edges of rectrices grayish brown, 

 and color of under parts somewhat darker, especially on chest; 

 length (skins), 270-299 (280); wing, 150.5-159.5 (153.8); tail, 89.5- 

 103 (95.2); exposed culmen, 15-17.5 (16.3); tarsus, 27-30.5 (28.5); 

 middle toe, 21-23.5 (22.7).^ 



Young. — Very different in coloration from adults. Above rufous- 

 cinnamon or pecan brown, the scapulars, interscapulars, and wing- 

 coverts narrowly tipped or terminally margined with chmamon-buff, 

 the pileum and hindneck duller (more brownish) with indistinct, 

 very narrow Hghter tips to the feathers, the forehead Ught grayish 

 brown; a dull white malar-subocular stripe, as in adults; foreneck 

 and chest grayish brown or drab, the feathers margined with dull 

 cinnamon; rest of under parts mostly pale grayish buffy. 



Bahamas (Great Bahama, Eleuthera, and New Providence islands) , 

 Cuba (Guama; Guantanamo; Holguin; Manatel; San Diego de los 

 Banos), Isle of Pines (Nueva Gerona; Paladito), and Haiti (Puerta 

 Plata, Aguacate, Guy a, Cayo Levantado, and Samana Bay, Santo 

 Domingo); Jamaica?; Porto Rico?; occasional on Florida Keys (Key 

 West; Sept. 15, 1889, Oct. 20, 1897, and Nov. 12, 1897). 



Columba montana (not of Linngeiis) Temminck, Cat. Syst., 1807, 144; Pig. et 

 Gallin., i, 1813, 395, 492; Les Pigeons, i, fam. trois., 1808-11, 10, pi. 4.— 

 Audubon, Orn. Biog., ii, 1834, 382, pi. 167; Synopsis, 1839, 192; Birds 

 Am., oct. ed., v, 1842, 14, pi. 282. — Nuttall, Man. Orn. U. S. and Can., 

 Land Bii'ds, 2d ed., 1840, 756. 



Zenaida montana Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 41. 



Columba martinica (not of Linnaeus) Temminck, Les Pigeons, i, 1808-11, 12, pis. 

 5,6 ("Porto Eico"); Hist. Nat. Pig. et Gallin., i, 1813,400 ("Porto Rico").— 

 Bryant, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xi, 1866, 96 (Santo Domingo). 



« Twelve specimens. 



^ Eight specimens. 



Locality. 



Middle 

 toe. 



MALES. 



Three adult males from Bahamas. . . 



Five adult males from Cuba 



Two adult males from Isle of Pines. 

 Two adult males from Haiti 



FEMALES 



One adult female from Bahamas. . . 



Five adult females from Cuba 



One adult female from Isle of Pines . 

 One adult female from HaitL 



23.2 

 23.9 

 24.7 

 23.7 



23.5 

 22.7 

 23.5 

 21 



