476 peeisterid^;. 



ix. p. 175 (1886) ; Ridgw. Man. N. Am. Birds, p. 586* (1887) ; 



Bendire, Life-Hist. N. Am. B. p. 150 (1892). 

 Chamsepelia bahamensis, Maynard, Am. Exch. and Mart, iii. 1887, 



p. 33 ; Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H. iv. p. 292 (1892). 

 Chamsepelia purpurea, Maynard, Am. Exch. and Mart, iii. 1887, 



p. 33 (Continental race, E. N. America) ; Chapm. Bull. Am. Mus. 



N. H. iv. p. 293 (1892). 

 Columbigallina passerina socorrensis, Ridgw. Man. N. Am. Birds, 



p. 586 (1887) (Socorro Isl., Tres Marias P) f. 

 Columbigallina passerina babamensis, Ridgw. ibid. (Bahamas, 



Greater Antilles ?) %. 

 Columbigallina passerina insularis, Ridgw. Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. 



1887, pp. 574, 575 (I. of Grand Cayman, Caribbean Sea) § ; Berl. 



J.f. O. 1892, p. 98 (=true passerina), 

 Columbigallina passerina purpurea, Berl. J. f. O. 1892, p. 97. 

 Columbigallina passerina, subsp., Chapm. Bull. Am. Mus. N. H. iv. 



p. 292 (1892) (Cuba). 

 Columbigallina passerina terrestris, Chapm. Bull. Am. Mus. N. H. 



iv. p. 293 (1892) (E. N. America). 



Adult male. Back, rump, upper tail-coverts, scapulars, tertials 

 and central tail-feathers greyish or olive-brown ; forehead, sides 

 of the head and neck, breast and abdomen purplish red or bright 

 vinous, paler on the forehead and middle of the throat ; occiput and 

 nape bluish grey, the feathers edged with dusky have a scale-like 

 appearance, also the feathers of the sides of the neck have dusky 

 edges ; feathers of the lower throat and upper breast dusky brown in 

 the centre, having a most conspicuous scale-like appearance ; flanks 

 dusky ; middle of the abdomen and basal under tail-coverts whitish, 

 the longer ones dusky ; upper wing-coverts purplish vinous ; the 

 exposed surface of the wing marked with blotches of a steel-blue 

 with violet reflections ; under wing-coverts, axillaries, and quills 

 cinnamon, the latter margined externally and tipped with dusky 

 brown, the inner secondaries and outer greater wing-coverts almost 

 entirely of this colour ; central tail-feathers like the back ; the 



* "Much paler than C. passerina, with rather longer wings and much smaller 

 and more slender bill, the latter often (always in fully adult males?) red 

 basally : wing 3-30-360 (3-46) inches, exposed culinen O42-0-47 (0'44), tarsus 

 0-60-0-66 (0-62). 



" Hah. South-western United States (Texas to Arizona and Lower Cali- 

 fornia), and south through Mexico (both coasts) to Central America." 

 (Ridgway.) 



t " Back and rump deep olive-brown, plumage in general much deeper than 

 in true C. passerina : wing 3-10-340 (3-28) inches, exposed culmen 041-0-44 

 (0-42), tarsus 0-60-063 (0-62). 



" Hab. Socorro Islands, Western Mexico, Tres Marias ? " (Ridgway.) 



J "Similar in colour of plumage to C. passerina pallescens, but still paler, 

 with upper parts more ashy; bill chiefly or entirely black or dusky (rarely 

 yellowish or orange at base): wing 313-330 (321) inches, exposed culmen 

 040-0-47 (043), tarsus 060-064 (0-62). 



" Hab. Bahamas, Greater Antilles? " (Ridgway.) 



§ "Similar to C. passerina bahamensis (Mayn.), but larger and with basal 

 half (or more') of bill distinctly orange or yellowish. 



"Hab. Island of Grand Cayman, Caribbean Sea." (Ridgway.) 



