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being merely "grosser als passerina" — barely sufficient to take his 

 name out of the nomen nudum class, and of itself unidentifiable, inas- 

 much as it leaves reason to believe that his bird may not have been a 

 Chcemepelia at all! Were the actual type available, Wiirttemberg's 

 name might be accepted for the present race, but the type would seem 

 to have been lost through the dispersal of his collection. 9 Accordingly, 

 we are perfectly justified in falling back on Columbigallina passerina 

 aflavida of Palmer and Riley (1902), who were the first to definitely 

 point out the distinctive characters of the Cuban bird as compared 

 with that of neighboring regions, although ten years previously Mr. 

 Chapman had called attention to the matter. In 1908 Dr. Lowe, not 

 liking the hybrid name aflavida, renamed the form axantha. 



A single example from Kingston, Jamaica (No. 14,785, Bangs Col- 

 lection, February 21, 1906), belongs unquestionably to the present 

 form, and was doubtless a straggler from Cuba or Haiti. 



Chaemepelia passerina insularis (Ridgway). 



Columbigallina passerina (not Columba passerina Linnaeus) Cory, Auk, III, 1886, 

 502 (Grand Cayman); IV, 1887, 116, part ("Antilles"; reference); VI, 1889, 

 32 (Cayman Brae). — Cory, Birds W. Indies, 1889, 217, part ("Antilles"; 

 reference). — Cory, Cat. W. Indian Birds, 1892, 97, part (Grand Cayman; Little 

 Cayman; Cayman Brae) 139, part (crit.). — Dubois, Syn. Avium, II, 1902, 763, 

 part ("Antilles"; crit.). 



Columbigallina passerina insularis Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., X, 1887, 574 

 (Grand Cayman; orig. descr.; type in collection U. S. National Museum). — 

 Cory, Birds W. Indies, 1889, 297 (Grand Cayman; Cayman Brae; crit.). — 

 Berlepsch, Journ. f. Orn., XL, 1892, 98, in text (crit.). — Hartert, Ibis, 1893, 

 305, in text (crit.). 



Chamcepelia passerina Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XXI, 1893, 473, part 

 (Grand Cayman). — Nicoll, Ibis, 1904, 585 (Grand Cayman; crit.). — Lowe, 

 Ibis, 1907, 116, in text, part (Cayman Islands; crit.). 



Chamcepelia insularis Sharpe, Hand-List Birds, I, 1899, 82 ("Great" Cayman). 

 — Lowe, Ibis, 1908, 113 (Cayman Islands; crit.). 



Columbigallina insularis Maynard, Cat. Birds W. Indies, 1903, 7 (Grand Cayman). 



Chamcepelia passerina insularis Lowe, Ibis, 1907, 116, in text (Cayman Islands; 

 crit.). 



Chamcepelia jamaicensis (not of Maynard) Lowe, Ibis, 1908, 111, part (Cayman 

 Islands; crit.); 1909, 341 (Grand Cayman; crit.); 191 1, 145 (Cayman Islands; 

 references). 



Subspecific characters. — Male: similar to C. p. aflavida, but slightly 



9 I am greatly indebted to Mr. C. E. Hellmayr for his efforts in my behalf to 

 locate the type specimen in question. 



