THE BIRDS OF HAITI AND THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC 199 



Birds from Haiti seem a little paler above than those from Ja- 

 maica but the material at hand is too small in amount to distinguish 

 them successfully. 



Columba asiatica of the tenth edition of Linnaeus is taken from 

 the Turtur, indicus, fuscus of Edwards Natural History (pp. 76, 127) 

 and the Columba subfusca media of Browne (p. 468). Linnaeus 

 gives the habitat as " in Indiis ". Edwards says that he was told 

 that his specimen " came from the East Indies," which is an obvious 

 error. In his twelfth edition (p. 281) Linnaeus renamed this bird 

 Columba leucoptera, adding to the two previous references Bris- 

 son's Colwmba indica, 71 giving the habitat as "Asia." The type 

 locality of asiatica is indicated by Mearns 72 with some uncertainty 

 in the statement " Jamaica, or at least the West Indies, is supposed 

 to be the type locality of Melopelia asiatica (Linnaeus)." The type 

 locality is here definitely designated as Jamaica. 



The white-winged dove is about as long as the Zenaida dove but 

 is smaller in body. It is light brown above and on the breast, with a 

 black spot below the ear and a wash of purple on the head. The rest 

 of the underparts are light gray, the wing black with a prominent 

 band of white, and the rounded tail black tipped with white. 



CHAEMEPELIA PASSERINA INSULARIS (Ridgway) 

 CUBAN GROUND-DOVE, ROLITA, ORTOLAN 



Columbigallina passerina insularis Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 10, 

 18S7, p. 574 (Grand Cayman). 



Petite Tourterelle de St. Domingue, Daubenton. Planch. Enl.. pi. 243. 



Cocot-zin, Descourtilz, Voy. Nat., vol. 2, 1809, pp. 194-196 (common). 



Turtur parvus Americanus 7S Brisson, Ornith., vol. 1, 1760, p. 113, pi. 9, fig. 1 

 (" Saint-Domingue"). 



Columba passerina, Heakne, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1834, p. 110 (forwarded 

 from Haiti). — Rittee, Naturh. Reis. Westind. Insel Hayti, 1836, p. 156 (Haiti, 

 specimen). — Bryant, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 11, May, 1867, p. 96 

 (Dominican Republic, Haiti). 



Columbigallina passerina, Cory, Cat. West Indian Birds, 1892, p. 92 (Haiti, 

 Dominican Republic). — Cheerie, Field Col. Mus., Ornith. ser., vol. 1, 1S96, p. 24 

 (Dominican Republic). 



Chamaepelia hortulana Hartlaub, Naumannia, 1852, p. 56. (Haiti.) 



Chamaepelia passerina, Salle, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1857, p. 236 (Domini- 

 can Republic).— Coey, Bull. Nuttall Ornith. Club, 1881, p. 154 (Haiti) ; Birds 

 Haiti and San Domingo, Dec, 1884, pp. 127-128 (abundant). — Tristram, Ibis, 

 18S4, p. 168 (Dominican Republic, specimen). — Tippenhauer, Die Insel Haiti, 

 1892, pp. 320, 322 (listed).— Christy, Ibis, 1897, p. 335 (La Vega). 



"Ornith., vol. 1, p. 105. 



72 Auk, 1911, p. 489. 



73 Turtur parvus fuscus Americanus Brisson, Ornith., vol. 1, 1760, p. 116, pi. 8, fig. 2, 

 of which the author says " on la trouve & saint Dominque, d'ou elle a et6 envoySe a M . 

 de Reaumur par M. Ghervain " is Chaemepelia minuta of South America, wrongly 

 ascribed to Hispaniola. 



