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(San Juan del Sur) ; Salvador (La Libertad) ; Guatemala (Volcano 

 Agua and Duenas) ; Oaxaca (Tehuantepec) ; Tepic (Las Penas 

 Island and San Bias); and Lower California (Cape San Lucas). 

 West to Lower California (Cape San Lucas, San Jose del Cabo, 

 Santa Anita, Triunfo, La Paz, and Comondu) ; western Sonora 

 (Guaymas) ; and southern California (Brawley). 



Migration. — Although white-winged doves are found in winter 

 more or less throughout their breeding range, migrating birds have 

 been observed to arrive in Arizona as follows: Sabina Canyon, 

 April 6, Otero Creek Canyon, April 12, Oracle, April 15, and Tomb- 

 stone, April 15. Similarly, fall migrants have been observed at 

 Phoenix, October 1, and Tombstone, October 21. 



The range as above outlined is for the entire species, which has, 

 however, been separated into two subspecies. The eastern white- 

 winged dove (Melopelia a. asiatica) is found from Texas, eastern 

 Mexico, and Costa Rica, east to the West Indies, and casually 

 southern Florida. The western white-winged dove (M. a. mearnsi) 

 occurs in the Southwestern United States and western Mexico. 



Casual records. — The occurrence of white-winged doves north of 

 their normal range has been noted on numerous occasions. Among 

 these records are California, a specimen at Escondido, about Sep- 

 tember 25, 1911, one "heard" at Needles (Stephens, 1903), and 

 one seen at Santa Barbara, November 8, 1922; Washington, one 

 taken at Puyallup, November 11, 1907; British Columbia, two seen 

 and one taken at Sherringham Point, Vancouver Island, in July, 

 1918 ; Colorado, one shot in the Wet Mountains in September, 1899 ; 

 Texas, the most northwestern record being a specimen at Kerrville, 

 November 25, 1910; Louisiana, one of a pair taken at Venice, about 

 November 20, 1910, and Grand Isle, May, 1894, and August, 1895; 

 Mississippi, one in Jackson County, on November 13, 1915; Alabama, 

 one taken at Point Clear, about December 23, 1916, one taken at 

 Daphne, about December 2, 1916, and another, also in Baldwin 

 County, exact date and locality unknown (A. H. Howell, 1928) ; 

 Florida, three specimens at Key West on November 14, 18S8, Novem- 

 ber 20, 1895, and November 28, 1895, Kissimmee, November, 1896, 

 and one taken near Orlando in the winter of 1908-9; Georgia, a 

 specimen at Hoboken, January 6, 1917; and Maine, one taken at 

 Lincoln, November 5, 1921. 



Egg dates. — Texas : 108 records, March 30 to July 14 ; 54 records. 

 May 12 to 29. Arizona : 68 records, April 2 to August 2 ; 34 records, 

 May 18 to June 2. Mexico: 20 records, April 20 to August 5; 10 

 records, May 18 to June 20. 



