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Zenaida spadicea Coiy. 



Zenaida spadicea Cory, Auk, iii. p, 498. 



I have five specimens of this pretty Dove from the Little 

 Cayman, where it is common. Unfortunately I have never 

 i)ecn able to secure any specimens from tlie Grand Cayman. 

 j\Ir. Cory has, on the strength of one specimen, provisionally 

 proposed the name of Z. richardsoni for the Little Cayman 

 form ; but, from the description he gives, his specimen is one 

 not in fully adult [)lunuige, and I prefer to think that the 

 birds from the two islands are identical. This is a good 

 species. 



CHAMiEPELiA JAMAiCEXSis Mayuard. 



Columbigallina passerina insularis llidgw. Proc. U.S. Nat. 

 Mus. p. 574(1887). 



Columbigallina Jamaicensis Maynard, Ajjp. Birds West 

 Indies, 1899, p. 34. 



I shot five or six of these Ground-Doves, which still appear 

 to me to be identical with the birds found in Jamaica. I 

 liave previously {' Ibis,' 1908, p. 107) given my reasons for 

 preferring to drop Linnaeus's specific name of passerina 

 for this Dove and for calling it C. jamaicensis Maynard. 

 During my last visit to the Grand Cayman I shot a 

 Ground-Dove with the base of the bill crimson as in 

 C. aflavida of Cuba, which was evidently a straggler from 

 this island. I have over a hundred specimens of the 

 genus from various islands in the Caribbean Sea in my 

 collection, and this was the only occasion in which I have 

 Ibund the colour of the bill to vary from that normally 

 found in the locality. 



Centurus caymanensis Cory. 



Centwus caymanensis Cory, Auk, iii. pp. 499, 502 (188G). 



I met with this Woodpecker in abundance, but only shot 

 two examples. It differs from two specimens that I shot in 

 Cuba in lacking the black superciliary mark. 



COLAPTES GUNDLACHI Cory. 



Colaptes gu7idlachi Cory, Auk, iii. pp. 498, 502 (188G). 

 I obtained six specimens of this very handsome Wood- 



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