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adult; feathers of occiput gray at base, edged with brown, thus re- 

 stricting the pure gray to the anterior portion of the crown; feathers 

 of back, scapulars, and wing-coverts edged with pale rusty or pure 

 white; sides of head, chin, and upper throat nearly white; chest light 

 vinaceous-drab ; abdomen ecru-drab. 



Measurements of type (adult male). — Length of skin, 195; wing, 110 

 tail, 79; culmen (chord), 15; tarsus, 19. 



Average measurements of four adult males. — Wing, 108; tail, 80.6 

 culmen (chord), 14.25; tarsus, 18.8. 



Average measurements of two adult females. — Wing, 104.8; tail, 77 

 culmen (chord), 14.7; tarsus, 18.5. 



Material. — Seven specimens from Dire Daoua and the Hawash 

 River, Abyssinia, collected by the Childs Frick African Expedition. 



CHALCOPELIA CHALCOSPILA MEDIA, new subspecies. 



GATO METALLIC-SPOTTED DOVE. 



Type-specimen. — Adult male, Cat. No. 243515, U.S.N.M.; col- 

 lected near the south end of South Lake Abaya, near Gardulla and 

 the Gato River camp of the Childs Frick African Expedition, in 

 Abyssinia, March 28, 1912, by Edgar A. Mearns. (Original num- 

 ber, 20885.) 



Characters. — Most closely related to CJialcopelia chalcospila intensa, 

 described above, from which it differs in being paler throughout and 

 in having more bluish purple in the wing-spots. 



Description of adult male and female. — Crown gray (deep gull gray), 

 paling to grayish white on forehead and sides of head; upper side of 

 neck, and mantle, grayish drab; wing-coverts and inner secondaries 

 paler drab; exposed portion of bastard wing black, concealed portion 

 kaiser brown; some of the inner median wing-coverts and some of 

 the scapulars, with golden-green and bluish purple spots; across the 

 lower back are two broad black bands and between them one of pale 

 grayish buff; upper tail-coverts light drab, each feather broadly 

 edged with black at tip; central rectrices light drab, becoming black 

 apically, the outer ones gray at base and broadly black terminally, 

 the three outermost narrowly tipped with pale drab or pale gray; 

 under side of tail black, with apical edging of pale gray to about 

 three outer feathers and pale gray outer web to outer feather; under 

 tail-coverts black mesially, considerably mixed with white laterally; 

 chin pinkish white; lower throat, chest, and upper abdomen, light 

 brownish vinaceous, passing into grayish white on lower abdomen; 

 iris, brown; bill, dark vinaceous-brown ; feet dull yellow. 



Measurements of type (adult male). — Length of skin, 180; wing, 

 106; tail, 78; culmen (chord), 13.5; tarsus, 18. 



Average measurements of seven adult males. — Wing, 108; tail, 79; 

 culmen (chord), 14; tarsus, 18.8. 



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