568 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



a purely individual nature, a few specimens being decidedly paler 

 below than the average, with a slight lavender gray tinge as in C. p. 

 aflavida, but the series as a whole is sufficiently distinct from any 

 other form. 



As early as 1725 Sloane gave a very fair account, accompanied by a 

 figure, of the Jamaican Ground Dove, and his description was the 

 first to be cited by Linnaeus under the name Colnmba passerine 

 Mainly on this account Count von Berlepsch proposed to restrict the 

 name to the Jamaican subspecies, and in this he was followed by 

 Mr. Chapman. Mr. Maynard, however, arrived at a different con- 

 clusion, and proceeded to give a new name to the Jamaican bird, 

 which name must now be accepted, inasmuch as Bonaparte, as far 

 back as 1855, restricted the application of Linnaeus' name to the form 

 from eastern North America, as has been already pointed out. Mr. 

 Maynard, however, compares the bird of Jamaica with that of the 

 Bahamas, saying that the former is lighter in shade, whereas it is 

 actually the reverse. 



Chaemepelia passerina bahamensis Maynard. 



Chatncepelia passerina (not Columba passerina Linnaeus) Jardine, Jardine's Contr. 

 Orn., 1849, 79 (Bermuda). — Hurdis, Jardine's Contr. Orn., 1850, 6 (Bermuda)- 

 — Reid, Bull. 25 U. S. Nat. Mus., 1884, 225, excl. syn. and geog. distr. (Ber- 

 muda; habits). 



Columba passerina Bland, Ann. Report Smiths. Inst, for 1858, 1859, 287 (Bermuda). 

 — Jones, Naturalist in Bermuda, 1859, 36, 70 (Bermuda; habits).— Martens, 

 Journ. f. Orn., VII, 1859, 216 (Bermuda, ex Jones). — Godet, Bermuda, i860, 194 

 (Bermuda; habits). 



Chamcepelia passerina Bryant, Proe. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., VII, 1859, 120 

 (Bahama Is.). — Albrecht, Journ. f. Orn., IX, 1861, 55 (Bahama Is., ex Bryant). 

 - — Baird, Am. Journ. Sci. and Arts, XLI, 1866, 188, part (Bahama Is., in geog- 

 distr.), 342, 344 (Bermuda). — Baird, Ibis, 1867, 276, part (Bahama Is., in 

 geog. distr.), 287, 289 (Bermuda). — Wallace, Geog. Distr. Animals, II, 1876, 

 135 (Bermuda). — Cory, Birds Bahama Is., 1880, 139, part (Miraporvos Is.; 

 Bahama Is. in general; habits). — Cory, List Birds W. Indies, 1885, 24, part 

 (Bahama Is.). — Jennings, Johns Hopkins University Circulars, VII, No. 63, 

 1888, 39 (New Providence; Abaco). — Tristram, Cat. Coll. Birds, 1889, 39, part 

 (Bermuda). — Cory, Birds Bahama Is., ed. 2, 1890, inserted page (Bahama Is.; 

 crit.). — Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XXI, 1893, 473 (Bermuda). — Oates, 

 Cat. Birds' Eggs Brit. Mus., I, 1901, 101 (Bermuda). — Forbes and Robinson, 

 Bull. Liverpool Mus., II, 1900, 141, part (Bermuda). — Bonhote, Auk, XX, 1903, 

 177 (Bird Rock, Bahama Is.). 



Chamapeleia passerina Cory, Birds Bahama Is., 1880, 228, part ("Bahamas in 

 general"). 



