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which occur in Northeast Africa, each represented by a series of speci- 

 mens. Mr. H. C. Oberholser 1 has pointed out the distinctions between 

 three previously recognized forms, Ohalcopelia chalcospila chalcospila 

 (Wagler) from Senegal, 0. c. somalica Erlanger from Soniali Land, 

 and G. c. acanthina Oberholser from Mount Kilimanjaro, in German 

 East Africa. 



The two new subspecies described* below may be readily dis- 

 tinguished from the three above-mentioned forms by their darker 

 coloration. The West African forms, cTialcospila and volkmanni, are 

 somewhat smaller than those from East Africa, but the latter exhibit 

 but slight variation in size. 



The author agrees with Doctor Sharpe in considering Ohalcopelia 

 delicatula of the White Nile region to be a distinct species. 



CHALCOPELIA CHALCOSPILA INTENSA, new subspecies. 



HAWASH METALLIC-SPOTTED DOVE. 



Type-specimen. — Adult male, Cat. No. 243506, U.S.N.M. ; collected 

 on the Hawash River, Abyssinia, February 11, 1912, by Edgar A. 

 Mearns. (Original number, 20178.) 



Description of adult male and female. — An adult female, mated 

 with the type, is indistinguishable from it except by its slightly 

 smaller size. Crown gray (dark gull gray), paler on forehead and 

 sides of head; upper side of neck, and mantle, hair brown; exposed 

 portion of wing-coverts and inner secondaries superficially grayish 

 drab, with darker bases and inner webs to the feathers; primaries 

 kaiser brown at base, with broad dark brown tips, which are nar- 

 rowly edged with whitish drab, and with black outer webs to the 

 five outer quills; some of the inner median wing-coverts and some 

 of the scapulars with metallic golden-green spots, some portions of 

 which in certain lights appear dusky purple; lower back crossed by 

 two broad black bands, and between them an avellaneous one; 

 upper tail-coverts light drab, broadly edged with black at tip; cen- 

 tral rectrices light drab, becoming black apically, the outer ones 

 gray at base and broadly black terminally, the three outermost nar- 

 rowly tipped with pale drab or pale gray; under side of rectrices 

 black, with pale edging to the tips of some of the outer feathers and 

 with pale gray outer webs to the basal third of the outer feather; 

 under tail-coverts black centrally with considerable white laterally; 

 chin pinkish white, deepening on the lower throat, chest, and upper 

 abdomen to brownish vinaceous, this paling on the lower abdomen 

 to grayish white; iris brown; bill dark olivaceous-brown; feet dull 

 yellow. 



Description of immature bird (Cat. No. 243504, U.S.N.M.; collected 

 at Dire Daoua, Abyssinia, Dec. 6, 1911). — Paler throughout than 



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