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rufous chestnut edgings of the remiges are less extensive. Females 

 are quite indistinguishable. Dr. I. owe, in describing the Porto 

 Rican bird, bases his diagnosis mainly upon the color of the bill, 

 which he says is (when perfectlj fresh) crimson at the base, "the tip 

 varying from brownish Mack to Mack. The crimson colour occupies 

 at leasl two-thirds of the hinder end of the bill, running abruptly up 

 to the Mack tip." In extending the distribution of this form to include 

 Martinique a step which, in spite of the range of variation exhibited 

 by birds from the different islands, seems fully justified by the series 

 I have studied, the name portoricensis proposed by Dr. Lowe neces- 

 sarily becomes a synonym of Bonaparte's much earlier appellation. 

 Unless it can be shown that the color of the bill is not correlated with 

 other color-characters, and is constantly different in birds from Porto 

 Rico and St. Thomas as compared with those from the islands to the 

 southward, I can see no way to avoid merging the birds from all these 

 \ arii hi- islands under one head. 



Chaemepelia passerina aflavida (Palmer and Riley). 



"Turtur parvus americanus" Brisson', Orn., I, 1760, 113. part ("Insula Domini- 

 copoli"). 



"Petite Touterelle de St. Dominique" D'Aubenton, PI. Enlum., 1770-86, 243, 

 fig. 1. 



Cohimba passerina LlNNiEUS, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, I, 1766. 285, part (ex Brisson). — 

 Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, ii, 1789, 787, part (ex Brisson). — Temminck, in Tem- 

 minck and Knip, Pigeons, I, 1808-n, Colombi-gallines, 24, part, pis. 13-14 

 ("Saint Domingue,"/rfe Vieillot). — Temminck, Hist. Nat. Pigeons et Gallinaces, 

 I, 1813, 425, part ("Saint Domingue," fide Vieillot). — Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. 

 d'Hist. Nat., XXVI, 1818, 401, part (Santo Domingo and Greater Antilles). 

 — Vieillot, Gal. Oiseaux, I, 1825, 333, part, pi. 196 (Santo Domingo). — Des- 

 marest, Diet. Sci. Nat., XL, 1826, 308, part (Santo Domingo). — Hearne, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1835, no (Haiti). — Ritter, Reise naeh Haiti, 1836, 156 

 (Haiti). — Lesson. Compl. de Buffon, Oiseaux, VIII, 1837, 12, part (Santo 

 Domingo); ed. 2, 1838, 272. — D'Orbigny, in La Sagra's Hist. Nat. Cuba, 

 Oiseaux, III, 1839, 131 (Cuba).— Temminck, PI. Col. I, Tabl. Meth., 1840, 81.— 

 Denny, Proc. Z06I. Soc. London, 1847, 38, part (Cuba, in geog. distr.). — Poey, 

 Mem. Real. Soc. Econom. Habana. (2), VII, 1848, 104 (Cuba). — Lemhi. vi:. 

 Aves Isla Cuba, 1850, 132 (Cuba). — Poey, Memorias sobre la Historia Natural 

 de la Isla de Cuba, I, 1851, 427 (Isle of Pines). — Thienemann, Journ. f. Orn.. 

 V, 1857, 154 (Cuba; descr. eggs). — Saussure. Rev. et Mag. de Zool., 1859, 121 

 (Haiti). — Bryant, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., XI, 1867, 96 (Santo Domingo). 

 — Sundevall, (Efv. Kongl. Vet.-Akad. F6rh.. " 1869," 1870, 586, part (Haiti; 

 crit.). — Gundlach, An. Hist. Nat., 1873, 146 (Cuba; habits). 



(?) Chamapelia hortulana WthtTTEMBERG, Naumannia, II, ii, 1852, 56 (Haiti; 

 orig. descr.; type probably lost). 



