NO. 9 BIRDS OF ISLA COIBA, PANAMA—WETMORE a7 
The flesh of these doves was esteemed highly for the table and 
the convicts trapped many and sold them alive, the usual price being 
60 cents a dozen. 
This is the most handsomely marked of the races of this species, 
the darker colors, in contrast with the paler hues of the other sub- 
species, following the characteristic pattern of increased depth in 
color found in the other forms that are peculiar to Coiba Island. 
Until now this race has been represented in collections by a male 
and two females (the type series) in the American Museum of 
Natural History, and a female in the British Museum (Natural 
History) taken on Coiba by H. J. Kelsall Sept. 4, 1924. 
Following are measurements of eight skins that I prepared: Males 
(2 specimens), wing 139.2-143.5, tail 89.2-89.4 (89.3), culmen 
from cere 8.5-8.9 (8.7), tarsus 31.2-32.6 (31.9) mm. Females (6 
specimens), wing 134.0-142.2 (138.2), tail 82.5-90.2 (86.0), culmen 
from cere (5 specimens) 8.0-9.0 (8.6), tarsus 29.9-33.2 (32.1) mm. 
The soft parts in a female taken January 17 were colored as fol- 
lows: Bill black; bare loral area dull red; rest of bare skin on side 
of head dull neutral gray; iris dull yellow; tarsus and toes dull red; 
claws wood brown. The sexes are alike in color and in size, the 
resemblance extending to the incised tip of the outermost primary, 
which averages very slightly broader in the females than in the 
males, but varies in length of the attenuated portion apparently with- 
out regard to sex. Immaturity in age may be a factor among those 
in which it is shortened, since in one bird that had just attained adult 
body plumage this feather is only slightly narrowed toward the end. 
An immature specimen in the American Museum of Natural His- 
tory, collected by J. H. Batty, May 11, 1901, has a few feathers of 
the juvenal plumage remaining on the forehead, crown, neck, and 
upper breast that are wood brown edged with cinnamon. The greater 
wing coverts have an indistinct subterminal bar of dark neutral gray 
and a narrow tip of cinnamon. 
GEOTRYGON MONTANA MONTANA (Linnaeus): Ruddy Quail-Dove, 
Paloma Montafiesa 
Columba montana LinNAEus, Systema naturae, ed. 10, vol. 1, 1758, p. 163. (Ja- 
maica. ) 
This quail-dove, widely distributed in the American Tropics, was 
fairly common in the heavy forests where, as usual, it lived on the 
ground in the shadows of the undergrowth. Occasionally one flushed 
ahead of me, when it was readily identified by its shorter tail and 
general form, even when the colors were not clearly seen; but when 
