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Subspecific characters. Intermediate in general coloration between 

 C. p. antillarum and ('. p. trochila, but bill in life differenl from either, 

 being black except a1 the extreme base, which is washed with crimson. 



Measurements. — Male: winy, 77-86 (average, 81); tail, 55-61 (58); 

 exposed ciilmen, 10. 5-12 (11.2); tarsus, 15-16. 5 (15. 6). Female: 

 winy. 81-85 (83.5); tail, 54-60 (57); exposed culmen, 11-12 (11.6); 

 tarsus, 15-16 (15.4). 



Riui'^c. -Cu\ki (including Isle of Pines) and Haiti; accidental in 

 Jamaica. 



Remarks. — The range of variation in this subspecies is considerable, 

 and renders a more definite diagnosis than the above impracticable. 

 In general, however, the vinaceous of the under parts has a slight 

 lavender gray cast, less decided than in C. p. antillarum, and there is 

 more vinaceous on the wing-coverts. These differences, however, are 

 only average ones, and are obvious only when a sufficiently large series 

 is compared to eliminate the factor of individual variation. On the 

 other hand, Porto Rican examples of C. p. trochila approach the present 

 torm rather closely in their characters, but are somewhat darker and 

 more vinaceous. In fact, the three forms under discussion merge 

 into one another to such an extent that their satisfactory discrimi- 

 nation from dry skins in very difficult, and in the case of some par- 

 ticular specimens quite impossible, so subtle are the visible differential 

 characters. To take the other horn of the dilemma, however, and 

 "lump" the Ground Doves from Cuba, Haiti, Porto Rico, and the 

 Lesser Antilles under the oldest name, would be to render their 

 satisfactory collective diagnosis still more difficult, so that, on the 

 whole, after careful consideration of the entire case, I have decided 

 to recognize the three forms as here given, relying for their dis- 

 crimination mainly on the data given by Dr. Lowe and other careful 

 observers concerning the color of the bill in life, which would seem to 

 be at least fairly constant. In the few instances where the labels 

 give the colors of the soft parts the iris is marked as brown, hazel, 

 light hazel, and yellow, instead of red or pink, as usual in this species. 



Careful examination of a series from Haiti and Santo Domingo 

 discloses no differences sufficient to separate them from the Cuban 

 bird, although the usual range of variation is exhibited. Some speci- 

 mens, indeed, are fully as pale as C. p. exigua, but their measurements 

 average larger. In 1852 the Prince von Wurttemberg referred to a 

 dove from Haiti under the name Chamccpelia hortulana, his description 



