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served on Morne a Cabrits April 20 and at Maissade April 21, and was 

 recorded daily at Hinche April 20 to 24. At Caracol on the North 

 Plain it was common on April 26 and 27 and was found in pairs. 



Abbott secured a female at Bombardopolis March 21, 1919, and a 

 pair at Moustique on March 9 and 10 at elevations of 600 and 900 

 meters. He took a female at Baie des Moustiques May 4. On Tortue 

 Island he secured three males January 30 and 31, and May 18, 1917, 

 and on May 18 and 19 collected two sets of eggs, one containing the 

 two eggs usual to this species, and the other, apparently incomplete, 

 only one. The nests were located about twelve feet from the ground 

 in mangroves near tKe seashore. The parent of the set of two, taken 

 on the nest, proved to be a male bird. The eggs, as usual are pure 

 white with a slight gloss. The set of two measures 27.7 by 21.8 and 

 29.0 by 22.2, and the single egg 29.0 by 21.2 mm. Danforth in 1927 

 found the mourning dove very common between Gona'ives and Cap- 

 Haiti'en. Bond reports them on Gonave and Tortue Islands, and 

 Poole and Perrygo collected specimens at St. Michel January 6 and 

 15, Fort Liberte February 15, St. Marc February 25, and at En 

 Cafe in the interior of Gonave Island March 5, 1929. 



Three males from Tortue Island are distinctly darker below than 

 others from Haiti, this color extending over the lower tail-coverts. 

 They are equalled only by two birds seen from eastern Cuba which 

 differ from other Cuban specimens as the Tortue birds do from others 

 from Haiti. Further material will be of interest but it is probable 

 that the specimens indicated represent individual and not geographic 

 variation. 



Following are measurements of the series from Hispaniola : 



Eleven males, wing 133.0-148.1 (138.2), tail 115.4-129.4 (122.4), 

 culmen 12.5-14.7 (13.4), tarsus 20.4-22.5 (21.1) mm. 



Four females, wing 129.4-137.2 (133.4), tail 95.0-111.8 (102.5), 

 culmen 11.8-13.9 (13.0), tarsus 19.3-21.3 (20.7) mm. 



Colvmba macroura of Linnaeus 67 is a composite based on the 

 long-tailed dove of Edwards, which is the mourning dove of the 

 West Indies, and the Palumbus migratorius of Catesby, which is the 

 passenger pigeon. The Edwards reference is the one given first and 

 has been used in applying the name, though the range assigned by 

 Linnaeus is that of the passenger pigeon. In the twelfth edition 

 of the Systema Naturae in 1766 Linnaeus dropped Cohimba macroura 

 of 1758 entirely, and named the passenger pigeon Colwriba canaden- 

 sis (p. 284) and Columba migratoria (p. 285), the North American 

 mourning dove Cohimba carolinensis (p. 286), and the long-tailed 

 dove of Edwards Columba marginata (p. 286). In the period when 

 the twelfth edition of Linnaeus was generally accepted as the basis 



"Syst. Nat., ed. 10, vol. 1, 1758, p. 184. 



