ORDER COLUMB^. 149 



Range. — North America. Breeds chiefly in Sonoran and Lower Transition 

 zones from British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, and southern 

 Nova Scotia south throughout the United States and Mexico, and locally in 

 Lower California and Guatemala; winters from southern Oregon, southern 

 Colorado, the Ohio Valley, and North Carolina to Panama ; casual in winter 

 in the Middle States. 



Genus ZENAIDA Bonaparte. 



Zenaida Bonapakte, Geog. & Comp. List, 1838, 41. Type, by tautonymy, 

 Zenaida amabilis Bonapabte = Columba zermida Bonapakte. 



Zen&ida zen&ida (Bonaparte). Zenaida Dove. [317.] 



Columba zenaida Bonapabte, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., V, 1825, 30. 

 (Florida Keys.) 



Range. — Florida Keys, the Bahamas, Greater'and Lesser Antilles, 

 and the coast of Yucatan. , 



Genus LEPTOTILA Swainson. 



LeptotHa Swainson, Classif. Birds, II, 1837, 349. Type,|by monotypy, 

 P[eristera] rufaxilla Selbt (= Columba rufaxiUa Richard & Bernard). 



Lept6tila fulvivSntris Lawrence. 



Range. — Central America and Mexico north to Lower Rio Grande 

 Valley, Texas. 



a. [Leptotila fulviventris fnlviventris. Extralimital.] 



6. Leptotila tulviventris brach^ptera Sal vADORi. White-fronted Dove. [318.] 



LeptoptUa brachyptera Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XXI, 1893, 54S. 

 (Mexico.) 



Range. — Lower Rio Grande Valley in Texas, south through Mexico (both 

 coasts) to Guatemala. 



Genus MELOPELIA Bonaparte. 



Melopelia Bonaparte, Consp. Avium, II, 1854, 81. Type, by subs, 

 desig., CoJumfca weloda TscHUDi (Gray, 1855). 



