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Plumbea ; cervice postica nitide senea, plumis omnibus nigro limbatis ; nucha purpureo-nigra ; capite summo 



niveo : subtus paulo pallidior : rostro nigricante, apiee flavo ; pedibus earneis. Long, tota circa 12-5, 



alae 7-5, caudse 4*8, rostri a rictu 1-15, tarsi 1-2. 

 $ . Fuscescentior ; cervice postica nitide lutescente, plumis sicut ia mari marginatis ; capite summo fusco 



lavato : subtns plumbeo-fusca, abdomine pallidiore. (Descr. maris et feminse ex Glover's Reef, British 



Honduras. Mus. nostr.) 



Eab. NoETH America, Florida Cays ^^. — Mexico, Cozumel I. off the coast of Yucatan 

 {Gaumer ^ ^^) ; Beitish Honduras, small islands off the coast (Leyland^), Turneff, 

 Glover's Reef, Half-Moon Cay, Middle Cay (O.S.^'^^); Honduras, Euatan I. 

 (Gaumer ^'^). — Greater Antilles^; Bahama Is.^^; Virgin Is. and St. Bartho- 

 lomew 1^ ; Swan 1. 1*. 



The "White-crowned Pigeon breeds on the Florida Cays, arriving early in May and 

 leaving in November ; it also nests in the Bahamas and the Greater Antilles, and 

 probably on the islands off the coast of Honduras. Leyland observed a flock of these 

 birds between Omoa and Belize, flying from island to island, but he did not notice 

 them on the mainland *. Salvin also found many on the cays of British Honduras ^ ' ^. 

 This Pigeon frequents the woods, and is common in the high trees surrounding the 

 cenotes or water-holes ^. 



The species breeds in communities, and Audubon believed that several broods were 

 reared every year. The nest is usually placed on cactus-bushes, or on the mangroves 

 close to the water ; but occasionally they are high up in the trees and are lined with roots 

 and grass. The eggs, two in number, are more glossy than those of most Pigeons ^^. 



2. Colnmba speciosa. 



Pigeon ramier de Cayenne, d'Aub. PI. Enl. 213 \ 



Columba speciosa, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 783'; Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 222' ; Salv. P. Z. S. 

 1870, p. 217*; Salvad. Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xxi. p. 281'; Richmond, Pr. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus. xvi. p. 523 ° ; Bangs, Pr. New Engl. Zool. Club, iii. p. 23 '. 



Chloreenas speciosa, Scl. P. Z. S. 1856, p. 309 '. 



Lepidcenas speciosa, Moore. P. Z. S. 1859, p. 61 ' ; Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. vii. p. 301 " ; Sumichrast, 

 La Nat. v. p. 231 ". 



Supra castanea, capite summo obscuriore ; dorsi antici plumis singulis macula triangulari subterminali rufa 

 et marinne lato jeneo ornatis, omnibus rosaceo micantibus ; plumis cervicis postici eodem modo macnUs 

 albis notatis ; gastrsei plumis undique late marginatis, iis cervicis anticae et pectoris maculis albidis sub- 

 terminalibus ornatis, omnibus rosaceo suffusis ; abdomine rufescenti-albido, tectricibus subcaudalibus fere 

 albis ; alis rufescenti-fuscis ; cauda nigricante : rostro miniato ; pedibus griseo-carneis ; iride brunnea. 

 Long.' tota circa 12-0, alse 7-3, caudse 4-7, rostri a rictu 1-1, tarsi 1-0. (Descr. maris ex Sakluk, Peten, 

 Guatemala. Mus. nostr.) 



9 mari similis, sed brunnea, coloribus cervicis et pectoris minus nitidis, interscapulio alis concolore minime 

 castaneo distinguenda. (Descr. femin» ex Tizimin, Yucatan. Mus. nostr.) 



Eab. Mexico, Vera Cruz {Mits. Brit.% Cordova {Salle «), San Lorenzo {Ferrari-Perez s), 

 Potrero {Sumichrast ^^), Tizimin in N. Yucatan (Gaumer^) ; Guatemala, Sakluk 

 (0. S. 5), Lake Peten {Leyland ^ ^) ; Nicabagua, La Libertad {Richardson % Eio 

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