226 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



Cubana, 1876, 128 (I. of Pines). — Gundlach, Orn. Cubana, 1895, 155 (I. of 



Pines). 

 (?) Zenaida zenaida (lapsus) Read, Oologist, XXVI, 1909, 148 (I. of Pines). 

 (?) "Zenaida Dove" (lapsus) Read, Forest and Stream, LXXIII, 1909, 452 (I. of 



Pines). — Read, Oologist, XXVI, 1909, 58 (I. of Pines). 

 Columba inornata proxima Todd, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, XXVIII, 1915, 170 



(Los Indios; orig. descr.). 



Thirteen specimens: Los Indios. 



Type, No. 39,892, Collection Carnegie Museum, adult male; Los 

 Indios, Isle of Pines, December 13, 191 2; Gustav A. Link. 



Subspecific characters. — Differs from typical inornata of Cuba in 

 its decidedly paler, grayer coloration, especially marked in the much 

 less strongly vinaceous shade of the under surface. The white edgings 

 of the median and greater wing-coverts are narrower. 



Through the courtesy of the authorities of several different insti- 

 tutions I have been able to bring together a small series of this fast 

 disappearing species, representing all the various islands included in 

 its range. Even in this small series geographical variation is evident, 

 each island apparently possessing a separate form with the exception 

 of Haiti, the single bird from which is indistinguishable from Cuban 

 examples. The Isle of Pines race is easily distinguished from the 

 typical Cuban form by the characters above specified. It is of course 

 conceivable that these characters may be shared by birds from 

 western Cuba, a circumstance which might possibly affect the validity 

 of the name here proposed. The Porto Rican form, to which Mr. 

 Ridgway has recently applied the name exsul {Proceedings Biological 

 Society of Washington, XXVIII, 1915, 106), is much deeper in general 

 coloration, while the Jamaican bird is extreme in this respect. 



The males in the Isle of Pines series, besides being slightly larger, 

 average more " solid " vinaceous below than the females, while the 

 vinaceous area on the wing-coverts is also deeper and larger. Sep- 

 tember specimens are in postnuptial moult. " Iris white; feet pink." 



All of the earlier authorities on the birds of Cuba and the Isle of 

 Pines agree as to the abundance of the Plain Pigeon in both islands, 

 but of late years its numbers have become very much reduced in 

 Cuba, and according to the statements of several reliable observers 

 it is practically extinct in many parts of that island. In the Isle of 

 Pines, however, it is still common locally, but, with the persecution 

 to which it is being subjected by the inhabitants, it will be a question 

 of only a few years before it will be as rare here as in Cuba. The 



