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October 4, 1915 Vol. V. pp. 101-10:2 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



NEW ENGLAND ZOOLOGICAL CLUB 



A NEW DOVE FROM ST. CROIX, DANISH WEST INDIES. 



BY G. K. NOBLE. 



While working in the Museum of Comparative Zoology upon a 

 collection of birds which I made during the summer of 1914 in the 

 West Indies, I have found an undescribed race of the Zenaida 

 Dove. It may be characterized as follows. 



Zenaida zenaida lucida. subsp. nov. 



Type, adult male, no. 66,287, coll. M. C. Z., from St. Croix, Danish 

 West Indies, collected September 15, 1914, by G. K. Noble. 



Characters. — In coloration this form resembles mostly Z. z. zenaida 

 (Bonaparte), but it is of a distinctly brighter shade. The upper parts are 

 decidedly darker, and are tinged with rufous, especially on the rump. The 

 dark slate or brownish slate of the primaries and secondaries' of Z. z. zenaida 

 is black in the specimens from St. Croix. The rosy tone of the breast 

 and belly is brighter, and the white of the chin much clearer, than in 

 specimens from other islands of the Greater Antilles. 



In size there is a decided difference between the races, the present form 

 being distinctly smaller than Z. z. zenaida, as is shown by the following 



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