TYPE SPECIMENS OF BIRDS 119 



243515. Adult male. "Near the south end of South Lake Abaya [=Lake 

 Chamo]," near Gardula (lat. 5°35' N., long. 37°27' E.), Ethiopia. 

 March 23, 1912. Collected by Edgar A. Mearns. Original number 

 20885. Childs Frick African Expedition (1911-1912). 

 Ghalcopelia chalcospila acanthina Oberholser 

 Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 28: 845, July 8, 1905. 



=Turtur chalcospilos chalcospilos (Wagler). See Peters, Checklist of 

 birds of the world 3: 113, 1937. 



119253. Adult female. Mount Kilimanjaro (at elev. 5,000 feet), Tan- 

 ganyika Territory. December 6, 1889. Collected by William L. 

 Abbott. 



Genus LEPTOTILA Swainson 



Leptotila capitalis Nelson 



Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 12:6, January 27, 1898. 

 =Leptotila verreauxi capitalis Nelson. See Hellmayr and Conover, 



Catalogue of birds of the Americas 1(1): 571, 1942. 

 156709. Adult male. Maria Madre Island, Tres Marias Islands, off the 



State of Nayarit, Mexico. May 6, 1897. Collected by Edward W. 



Nelson and Edward A. Goldman. Original number 4287. Received 



from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 

 Leptotila verreauxi nuttingi Ridgway 



Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 28: 107, May 27, 1915. 

 91130. Adult male. Ometepe Island, in Lake Nicaragua, Nicaragua. 



March 7, 1883. Collected by Charles C. Nutting. Original number 



741. 

 This specimen was at some unknown period in the possession of Henry 

 K. Coale, in whose collection it was No. 5182. 

 Leptoptila riottei Lawrence 



Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. New York 9: 137 (not earlier than April), 1868. 

 =Leptotila verreauxi riottei (Lawrence). See Hellmayr and Conover, 



Catalogue of birds of the Americas 1 (1) : 573,574, 1942. 

 43044. Adult male. Navarro, Province of Cartago, Costa Rica. Janu- 

 ary 1866. Collected by Juan Cooper. Original number 106. 

 Leptotila insularis Richmond 



in Robinson, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 18: 659, August 12, 1896. 

 =Leptotila verreauxi verreauxi (Bonaparte). See Hellmayr and Con- 

 over, Catalogue of birds of the Americas 1(1): 575, 576, 1942. 

 151639. Adult male. Margarita Island, Caribbean Sea off the State of 



Sucre, Venezuela. July 6, 1895. Collected by Wirt Robinson. 



Original number 437. 



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