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24. LEPTOTILA INSULARIS, new species. 



MARGAKITAX DOVK. 



iNativ^e name " pii)i." 



Irides yellowisli, skin around eyes deep blue, beak black, feet reddi.sh 

 pink. Fairly common and very good eating. I saw "pipis" on the 

 mainland at Lagaayra and at Guanta, but did not get any specimens 

 for comparison -with this ishmd form. 



[7>/K'.— Male adult, No. 151G39, U.S.N.M.; Margarita, July 0, ISOo; 

 Wirt liobinson ; collector's No. 437. Back, rump, upper tail-coverts, 

 central tail feathers, tertiaries, and wing-coverts, grayish olive; prima- 

 ries and secondaries (especially at tips), blackish brown, the former 

 (except first) with more or less narrow whitish edges; tail feathers black, 

 four outer pairs tipped with white, narrowly on the inner one, but 

 increasing toward the outer i)air, on which the white tip is one-half inch 

 broad; outer web of outer tail feather narrowly edged with white for its 

 exposed portion; outer webs of outer tail feathers, except last, mostly 

 grayish olive. Forehead, lores, cheeks, ear-coverts, and lower throat, 

 ecru-drab, passing into pale vinaceousou breast and sides of neck, and 

 becoming lighter again on lower breast; chin and center of throat 

 white; center of crown distinctly French gray, passing posteriorly into 

 dull plumbeous mixed with vinaceous on hiiul neck, the feathers on 

 sides of occiput, hiud neck, and slightly on sides of neck rather spar- 

 ingly glossed with purple, and on lower part of hind neck with green. 

 Center of abdomen and under tail-coverts white; sides of body brown- 

 ish buft', darker on llaidcs; axillaries, under wing-coverts, and most of 

 under side of primaries, chestnut; first primary only narrowly edged 

 with chestnut on inner web. Wing, 5.07; tail, 4; tarsus, 1.01; exposed 

 culmen, O.OG inches. This specimen is the only one of the four repre- 

 sented in the series in which the center of the crown is of a pronounced 

 grayish color, but the others have a trace of it, somewhat masked by 

 the vinaceous tinge of the surrounding parts. The other specimens 

 have the inner web of the first i)rimary mostly chestnut, instead of a 

 narrow edging as in the type. This species is closely related to L. rer- 

 re<(u.ri, but is smaller, grayer above, with metallic colors on hind neck, 

 occiput, and sides of neck less pronounced. Trinidad and Tobago birds 

 resemble the Margarita form in size, but the colors are more like true 

 L. rcrreauxi. Three other specimens of L. insidaris measure: j\tale 

 adult, wing, 5,25; tail, 4.15; tarsus, 1.07: culmen, 0.08 inches. Female 

 adult, wing, 5.27; tail, 4.08; tarsus, 1.07; culmen, 0.G7 inches. Female 

 adult, wing, 5.23; tail, 4.10; tarsus, 1; culmen, 0.64 inches. — C. W. E.J 



25. COLUMBIGALLINA PASSERINA (Linnaeus). 



GROUND DOVE. 

 Native name "tortola." 



Extremely abundant in all parts of the island. 



[The Margarita birds belong to a small ])ale form, but whether C. haha- 

 mcttsifi, Maynard, or C. perpaUUla, Hartert, or something still different. 



