il4 Mr. P. U. Lowe ow the 



Sharpe and I obtained on Grand Cayman Island are slightly 

 paler than those from Jamaica, I can see no appreciable 

 differences, and I consider that C. insularis ought not to be 

 separated from C. jamaicensis. It may be observed that 

 Mr. Ridgway compares his yellow-billed bird with the black- 

 billed Bahaman variety, instead of with the yellow-billed 

 Jamaican form. 



It may be worth pointing out that although the Cayman 

 group of islands is geographically connected with the south- 

 western end of Cuba by a line of shallow soundings which 

 indicate a previous connexion, yet the bills of the Ground- 

 Doves in the one case are yellow (basally) and in the other 

 crimson. 



Cham.epema pekpallida. 



Columbiyallina passerina perpallida Hartert, Ibis, 1893, 

 p. 304. 



In my male specimens the basal two-thirds of the bill 

 vary from orange and orange-yellow to yellow (according 

 to age), the tip being nearly black. Iris reddish. Tarsi 

 and feet very pale flesh-coloured. Females have no orange 

 at the base of the bill. This is a well-marked and constant 

 form. It is uniformly paler both above and beneath 

 than C. jamaicensis from Jamaica. The pale coloration is 

 especially striking in a series of nine females that I have 

 collected, in which the abdomen is creamy white. The wings 

 of five males in my collection average 79 mm., and those of 

 nine females 76 mm. 



Dr. Hartert described this form from the Islands of 

 Curacjoa, Bonaire, and Aruba, and I have lately found it in 

 Blanquilla, the Los Hermanos group of islands, and 

 Margarita. It is probable indeed that it is resident in all 

 the islands along the northern coast of Venezuela and 

 Colombia, as well as in the arid coast-districts of this littoral. 



Cham^pelia axantha. 



Columbigallina passerina afiavida Palmer & Riley, Proc. 

 Biol. Soc. Wash. vol. xiii.-xv., March 5th, 1902. 



Four males from Havana, and three females from 

 Matan/.as, Cuba. 



