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by 28.4, 37.5 by 25.6, 37.6 by 27.5, 38.4 by 26.0, 40.0 by 27.0, and 40.0 

 by 27.9. 



Wetmore observed one white-crowned pigeon at Poste Cliarbert 

 on April 26, 1927. Danforth collected specimens on Gonave Island 

 in 1927. Bond records them in 1928 from Jacmel, Ennery, and Cara- 

 col, and says that they are common on Gonave and Tortue Islands. 

 He secured a female June 24 (locality not given) that contained an 

 egg nearly ready to be deposited. He records measurement of one 

 egg as 37.9 by 27.3 mm. Poole and Perrygo in 1929 saw several 

 at Anse a Galets, Gonave Island February 28, and recorded others 

 at En Cafe in the interior from March 3 to 14. They collected one 

 (at Massacrin) March 8 and three others March 12. 



E. H. Beck secured three on Navassa Island July 14, 1917. in- 

 cluding a juvenile bird fully grown but still entirely in ju venal 

 dress with no white on the crown, so that it seems that the species 

 breeds on that island. It has been recorded there in October by E. 

 L. Ekman. 



The soft parts in an adult male taken by Wetmore near Sanchez 

 May 8, 1927 were colored as follows : iris light buff ; tip of bill dull 

 greenish yellow, rest, as well as cere, dull red; tarsus and toes dull 

 red ; claws light brown. 



This bird is dull gray with black edgings and greenish reflections 

 on the feathers of the hindneck, a rich reddish brown patch on the 

 nape and a white crown. Females have the light color of the crown 

 obscured by a wash of slate. 



COLUMBA SQUAMOSA Bonnaterre 



SCALED PIGEON, PALOMA TURCA, PALOMA TORCAZA, PALOMA MORADA, 

 RAMIER, RAMEREATJ, RAMIER COU ROUGE 



Columba squamosa Bonnaterre, Tabl. Enc. Meth., vol. 1, 1792, p. 234 (Gua- 

 deloupe Island, West Indies). — Bond, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 

 80, 1928, p. 498 (La Hotte, La Selle, Chaine des Mateux, Massif du Nord, 

 Montaignes Noires, Gonave Island). — Danforth, Auk, 1929, p. 305 (recorded). 

 — Lonnberg, Fuana och Flora, 1929, p. 101 (Haiti) . — Ekman, Ark. for Bot., 

 vol. 22A, No. 16, 1929, pp. 5, 7 (Navassa). — Moltoni, Att. Soc. Ital. Scienz. 

 Nat., vol. 68, 1929, p. 314 (Bonao, specimens). 



Paloma Torcaca, Oviedo, Hist. Gen. Nat. Indias, Libr. 14, Cap. 2; Reprint, 

 Madrid, 1851, p. 442 (common). 



Rainier (in part), Saint-Mery, Descrip. Part. Frang, lie Saint-Domingue, 

 vol. 1, 1797, pp. 262, 717, vol. 2, 1798, pp. 79, 50G, 577, 621, 648, 809 (Dondon, 

 Port-de-Paix, Port-a-Piment, above Jacmel, Cayes, Fonds-des-Negres, Aquin, 

 Saint-Louis, Jereinie). — Descourtilz, Voy. Nat., vol. 2, 1809, pp. 182-186 

 (common). 



Wood-pigeon (in part), Saint-Mery, Descrip. Span. Part Saint-Domingo, 

 vol. 1, 1798, pp. 193, 214 (common). — Wimpffen, Voy. Saint Domingo, 1817, 

 p. 188 (mentioned). 



