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light neutral gray; bill, including cere, wholly black; iris brilliant 

 orange; bare orbital space carmine red; legs and feet coral red; ° 

 length (skins), 382-486 (404); wing, 206-224 (215.5); tail, 144-156 

 (149.9); culmen, 16.5-19.5 (17.7); tarsus, 27-29 (27.8); middle toe, 

 30.5-34.5 (32.9).* 



Adult female. — Similar to the adult male, but back, scapulars, and 

 wing-coverts more brownish or olivaceous, under parts of body more 

 vinaceous-fawn or avellaneous, and metallic hues of hindneck less 

 brilliant; length (skins), 379-431 (400); wing, 196-209 (204.1); tail, 

 138.5-149 (143.5); culmen, 17.5-20 (18.7); tarsus, 26.5-28 (27.2); 

 middle toe, 30-35.5 (32.8). c 



Young. — Very different in coloration from adults, except tail, 

 remiges, primary coverts, and alulae; head and neck brownish gray, 

 paler and more brownish on throat; smaller wing-coverts narrowly 

 margined (more or less distinctly) with paler; foreneck, chest, and 

 breast grayish brown (drab tinged with cinnamon-drab) passing into 

 light cinnamon-drab or fawn color on abdomen; otherwise, much as 

 in adults. 



Island of Jamaica (Trelawney; Moneague; Spanishtown; St. Anns; 

 St. Andrews; mountains above Bath; Priestman's River); island of 

 Porto Rico ? 



Columba (caribxa) Jacquin, Beytr., 1784, 30 ("Karibai'schen Inseln"; cites Co- 

 lumba cauda annulo cincta jamaicensis Brisaon, Om., i, 138). — Latham, 

 Synop., Suppl., i, 1787, 199; Index Orn., ii, 1790, 603.— Gmelin, Syst. Nat., 

 i, pt. 2, 1789, 773. 



(1)Columba caribxa Temminck and Knip, Pigeons, i, Earn, seconde, 1808-11, 22 

 [86], pi. 10 (specimen said to be from Porto Rico figured). — Temminck, Pig. 

 et Gallin., i, 1813, 114, 450. 



Columba caribxa Stephens, Shaw's Gen. Zool., xi, 1819, 36. — Reichenbach, 

 Syn. Av. Novit., Columbariae, 1851, fig. 3362.— Sundevall, Oefv. K. Vet.- 

 Ak. Forh., 1869, 601 (Porto Rico). — Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. 

 N. Am. Birds, iii, 1874, 359. — Cory, Auk, iv, 1887, 110 (synonymy; descr.; 

 range); Birds West Ind., 1889, 211; Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 9, 97, 138 

 (Jamaica; Porto Rico?). — Scott, Auk, ix, 1892, 122 (Jamaica) .— Salvadori, 

 Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxi, 1893, 290 (Trelawney and Spanishtown, Jamaica). — 

 Sclater, Revised List Birds Jamaica, 1910, 18. 



Col[umba] caribxa Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., xxxix, 1854, 1110. 



[Columba] caribxa Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 234, no. 9259. — Sclater and Salvin, 

 Norn. Av. Neotr., 1873, 132.— Cory, List Birds West Ind., rev. ed., 1886, 23 

 (Jamaica; Porto Rico). — Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 70. — Forbes and Rob- 

 inson, Bull. Liverp. Mus., ii, 1900, 132 (Jamaica). 



C[olumba] caribxa Newton (A. and E.), Handb. Jamaica, 1881, 114. 



Columba caribma Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., xxvi, 1818, 359. 



Columba caribbxa Denny, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1847, 39,40 (Jamaica). — Gosse, 

 Naturalists' Soj. in Jamaica, 1851, 173. 



o Gosse, Birds Jamaica, 1847, 291, footnote. 

 6 Eight specimens. 

 c Six specimens. 



