ORDER COLUMB. 149 
Rance.— North America. Breeds chiefly in Sonoran and Lower Transition 
zones from British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, and southern 
Nova Scotia south throughout the United States and Mexico,.and locally in 
Lower California and Guatemala; winters from southern Oregon, southern 
Colorado, the Ohio Valley, and North Carolina to Panama; casual in winter 
in the Middle States. 
GENUS ZENAIDA BoNnaPARTE. 
Zenaida BONAPARTE, Geog. & Comp. List, 1838, 41. Type, by tautonymy, 
Zenaida amabilis BONAPARTE = Columba zenaida BONAPARTE. 
Zendida zen4ida (BONAPARTE). Zenaida Dove. [317.] 
Columba zenaida BONAPARTE, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., V, 1825, 30. 
(Florida Keys.) 
Rance.— Florida Keys, the Bahamas, Greater and Lesser Antilles, 
and the coast of Yucatan. 
GENUS LEPTOTILA SwalInson. 
Leptotila Swainson, Classif. Birds, II, 1837, 349. Type, by monotypy, 
Pleristera] rufaxilla SELBY (= Columba rufaxilla RicHarp & BERNARD). 
Leptétila fulvivéntris LAWRENCE. 
RanGE.— Central America and Mexico north to Lower Rio Grande 
Valley, Texas. 
a. [Leptotila fulviventris fulviventris. Extralimital.] 
b. Leptotila fulviventris brachyptera Satvapor1. White-fronted Dove. [318.] 
Leptoptila brachyptera Satvavort, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., X XI, 1893, 545. 
(Mexico.) 
Ranee.— Lower Rio Grande Valley in Texas, south through Mexico (both 
coasts) to Guatemala. 
GENUS MELOPELIA Bonaparte. 
Melopelia Bonaparte, Consp. Avium, II, 1854, 81. Type, by subs. 
desig., Columba meloda Tscuuni (Gray, 1855). 
