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Nomenclature Committee, and has been in currenl use ever since. 

 As late as K)oi, however, Mr. William Palmer took exception to this 

 ruling, and pointed out that should Mr. Mavnard designate a type 

 his name would in any case have precedence. Meanwhile, however, 

 Mr. Mavnard had become convinced that the name passerina had been 

 taken primarily from Catesby, so he proceeded to give the Jamaican 

 bird a new name. 



A few months before Mr. Chapman's article was published Count 

 Hans von Berlepsch also decided that Jamaica must be considered as 

 the type locality of Columba passerina, mainly on the ground that 

 Sloane is the first citation given by Linnanis, and he therefore accepted 

 Maynard's name purpurea for the large North American form. 

 Subsequently both Count von Berlepsch and Dr. Ernst Hartert have 

 explicitly given Jamaica as the type locality of passerina. Both 

 these and other authors have evidently entirely overlooked Bona- 

 parte's remarks bearing on this point, published in 1855. In his 

 review of this genus he states as follows: 



"Quoi qu'il en soit, je laisse exclusivement ce nom de Ch. passerina, 

 Sw. ex L., a 1'espece de 1'Amerique septentrionale figuree par Catesby, 

 Buffon, Wilson et Audubon; et je donne les noms de Ch. granatina 

 Bp., Ch. albivitta Bp., et Ch. trochila Bp., a. trois especes nouvelles qui 

 ont, comme le vraie passerina, la gorge ondulee de couleur obscure." 



Inasmuch as Linnaeus' diagnosis applies equally well to both the 

 Jamaican and the eastern North American forms, Bonaparte was 

 entirely within his rights in thus restricting the application of the name 

 passerina, and as his meaning is perfectly clear and explicit, and his 

 action in this regard anticipates by many years that of Maynard, 

 Berlepsch, and Chapman, it will be necessary to adopt the name 

 passerina as the subspecific appellation of the form from eastern 

 North America, accepting South Carolina {ex Catesby) as the type 

 locality. Thus any further controversy over the status of the name 

 purpurea is happily avoided, and passerina is conserved for the best 

 known form. 



The Ground Dove is most abundant in peninsular Florida, but 

 extends northward regularly at least as far as Charleston, South 

 Carolina. It is resident throughout the year, but in the northern 

 part of its range is said to be partially migratory. Audubon says 

 that it is a bird of the maritime lowlands, scarcely to be found more 

 than one hundred miles from the coast. He records it from Louisiana, 



