286 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



cc. No white bar across nape; metallic feathers of hindneck blended. (Jamaica.) 



Chloroenas caribsea (p. 294). 

 66. Handneck not metallic; tail unicolored, or if bicolored (C. rufina, part) the 

 occiput and nape metallic, 

 c. Occiput and nape concolor with crown and hindneck (not metallic) ; tail deep 

 slate to slate-blackish, darker terminally. 

 d. Bill light colored (yellowish or reddish), stout, with feathers of forehead 

 advancing much beyond malar antia. ( Chloroenas flavirostris.) 

 e. Coloration darker, with white edgings to distal wing-coverts narrower; 

 smaller (wing averaging less than 195 in male, less than 192 in female). 

 /. Larger (wing averaging 191.7 in male, 191.3 in female). (Northern Mex- 

 ico, including Rio Grande Valley in Texas, to Honduras.) 



Chloroenas flavirostris flavirostris (p. 300). 

 ff. Smaller (wing averaging 190 in male, 183.7 in female). (Nicaragua and 



Costa Rica.) Chloroenas flavirostris minima (p. 304). 



ee. Coloration paler, with white edgings to distal wing-coverts broader; 

 larger (wing averaging 200.4 in male, 198 in female). (Tres Marias 

 Islands, western Mexico.)... Chloroenas flavirostris madrensis (p. 303). 

 dd. Bill black, slender, with feathers of forehead advancing but little beyond 

 malar antia. (Chloramas inornata.) 

 e. More deeply colored, the general color of head, neck, and under parts 

 strongly purple-drab. 

 /. Darker, the forehead purple-drab, like rest of pileum. (Jamaica.) 



Chloroenas inornata exigua (p. 298). 



ff. Paler, the forehead appreciably lighter or grayer than rest of pileum. 



g. Darker (nearly as dark as C. i. exsul, but forehead appreciably paler 



than crown, etc.). (Porto Rico.). Chloroenas inornata exsul (p. 299). 



'gg. Slightly paler, with forehead distinctly paler and grayer than crown. 



(Cuba; Haiti?.) Chloroenas inornata inornata (p. 296). 



ee. Coloration much paler, the general color of head, neck, and under parts 

 light purple-drab to vinaceous-gray. (Isle of Pines, near Cuba.) 



Chloroenas inornata proximo, (p. 299). 

 cc. Occiput and nape metallic brSnze-g'reen or purplish, in contrast with purple- 

 drab or vinaceous-brown of forehead and hindneck; tail brownish gray, paler 

 terminally (sometimes with a dusky sub terminal band). 

 d. Malar and auricular regions gray. (Chloroznas rufina.) 

 e. Tail with apical portion conspicuously and abruptly paler than basal por- 

 tion, in contrast with a more or less distinct dusky sub terminal band. 

 /. Under tail-coverts paler gray; sub terminal band of tail less distinct, dull 

 slaty or dusky grayish. (Guianas and Amazon Valley; Venezuela?; 

 Colombia?) Chloroenas rufina rufina (extralimital)." 



"• Columba rufina Temminck, Pigeons, i, fam. seconde, 1808-11, 59, pi. 24 (French 

 Guiana); Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxi, 1893, 287, part. — Janthoenas rufina 

 Reichenbach, Av. Syst. Nat., 1852, p. xxv. — [Chloroenas] rufina Bonaparte, Consp. 

 Gen. Av., ii, 1857, 52. — Melopelia plumbescens Lawrence, Ibis, 4th ser., iv, 1880, 238 

 (Guiana; coll. G. N. Lawrence ;= young). 



The series examined of this form is very small, and not sufficient to enable one to 

 get a clear idea as to its distinctions from the Central American form (C. r. pallidicrissa), 

 to which it seems much nearer than to C. r. sylvestris; indeed, in the few specimens 

 examined the darker sub terminal band of the tail is practically obsolete, and there 

 are some Central American examples in which the abdomen and under tail-coverts are 

 quite as gray. 



