BIRDS OP NORTH AND MIDDLE AMeMCA. 



297 



light cinnamon-drab or pale vinaceous-drab, and vinaceous-brown 

 patch on lesser wing-coverts much less distinct, more restricted; 

 length (skin), 388; wing, 199.5; tail, 119; culmen, 18.5; tarsus, 26; 

 middle toe, 36.° 



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

 and rectrices; general color grayish brown (paler than dusky drab), 

 becoming much paler (nearly drab-gray) on abdomen and other 

 posterior under parts, the wing-coverts and feathers of chest with 

 narrow and rather indistinct terminal margins of paler. 



Island of Cuba; island of Haiti (Magua and Samana Bay, Santo 

 Domingo). 



Columba inornata Vigors, Zool. Journ., iii, no. xi, Dec, 1827, 446 (near Havana, 

 Cuba; coll. Zool. Soc. Lond.?). — D'Orbigny, in La Sagra's Hist. Nat. Cuba, 

 Ois., 1839, 173 (large ed., p. 127), pi. 28.— Denny, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 

 1847, 39, part (Cuba).— Cory, Auk, iv, 1887, 110, part (Cuba); Birds West 

 Ind., 1889, 211, part (Cuba); Cat. Birds West Ind., 1892, 9, 97, part (Cuba).— 

 Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxi, 1893, 284, part (Cuba). 



(?) Columba inornata Cory, Birds Haiti and San Dom., 1885, 136 (Magua, Santo 

 Domingo); Auk, iv, 1887, 110, part (Santo Domingo); Birds West Ind., 1889, 

 211, part, (Santo Domingo); Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 9, 97, part (Santo 

 Domingo). — Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxi, 1893, 284, part (Santo 

 Domingo). — Christy, Ibis, 1897, 336 (Samana Bay, Santo Domingo; habits). — 

 Vbrrill (A. E. and A. H.), Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1909, 357 (Santo 

 Domingo). 



C[olumba] inornata Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., xxxix, 1854, 1108 (Cuba; crit.); 

 xl, 1855, 24 (crit.). 



[Columba] inornata Cory, List Birds West Ind., rev. ed., 1886, 23, part (Cuba). — 

 Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 70, part. 



a One specimen (from Cuba). 



The specimens from Haiti (Santo Domingo) agree best with Cuban examples, but 

 are somewhat grayer and may prove to be separable. The series is very small of 

 all forms except that from the Isle of Pines. 



