298 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



(?) [Columba] inornata Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 235, no. 9274, part (Santo Do- 

 mingo) .-Sclater and Salvin, Nom.Av. Neotr., 1873, 132, part (Haiti). 



Columba . . . inornata Gundlach, Journ. fiir Orn., 1871, 282 (Cuba). 



Carpophaga ? inornata Reichenbach, Syn. Av. Novit., Columbariae, 1851, [pi. 

 28, fig. 2582] (Cuba). 



[Chloroenas] inornata Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av., ii, 1857, 53, part (Cuba).— 

 Gundlach, Journ. fur Orn, 1861, 336 (Cuba); Bepert. FMco-Nat. Cuba, 

 i,1866, 298. 



Chloroenas inornata Cabanis, Journ. fiir Orn., 1856, 106 (Cuba; habits).— Gund- 

 lach, Journ. fur Orn., 1861, 416, part (Cuba); 1874, 286 (Cuba; habits). 



(?) Chloroenas inornata Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, iv, no. 35 (Columbae), 1873, 

 78 (Santo Domingo). 



Ch[loroenas] inornata Reichenbach, Tauben, i, 1861, 62, part, pi. 222, fig. 2582 



(Cuba); ii, 1862, 172. 



CHLOR(ENAS INORNATA EXIGUA Ridgway. 



JAMAICAN' PLAIN PIGEON. 



Similar to C. i. inornata but decidedly deeper in color, the back 

 and scapulars browner (approaching olive-brown), the head and 

 neck deep vinaceous-drab, the forehead between hays brown and 

 vinaceous-brown, the chest, breast, etc., between sorghum brown and 

 vinaceous-brown; adult female very similar to the adult male of 

 C. i. inornata but forehead deeper colored (nearly concolor with rest 

 of pileum). 



Adult male— Length (skins), 380-403 (391); wing, 208-229 

 (220.3); tail, 125-151.5 (139.8); culmen, 18.5-19 (18.7); tarsus, 26- 

 29.5 (28.2); middle toe, 34-36.5 (35.7). a 



Adult female.— Length (skin), 374; wing, 222; tail, 127; culmen, 

 19.5; tarsus, 29.5; middle toe, 37. b 



Island of Jamaica (Trelawney; Moneague; Cumberland "Valley; 

 St. Catherines; Spanish town). 



Columba inornata (not of Vigors) Denny, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1847, 39, part 

 (Jamaica).— March, Proc. Ac Nat. Sci. Phila., 1863, 301 (Jamaica).— 

 Baird, Brewer, and Rldgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, iii, 1874, 360 (Jamaica).— 

 Cory, Auk, iv, 1887, 110, part (Jamaica); Birds West Ind., 1889, 211, part 

 (Jamaica); Cat. West. Ind. Birds, 1892, 9, 97, part (Jamaica).— Scott, 

 Auk, ix, 1892, 122 (Jamaica).— Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxi, 1893, 

 284, part (Spanish-town, Jamaica). — Sclater, Rev. List. Birds Jam., 1910, 18. 

 [Columba] inornata Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 235, no. 9274, part (Jamaica).— 

 Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 132, part (Jamaica). — Cory, 

 List Birds West Ind., rev. ed., 1886, 23, part (Jamaica).— Sharpe, Hand- 

 list, i, 1899, 70, part. 

 [Chloroenas] inornata Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av., ii, 1857, 53, part (Jamaica). 

 Ch[loroenas] inornata Reichenbach, Tauben, i, 1861, 62, part (Jamaica). 

 Chloroenas inornata Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1861, 80 (Jamaica).— 



Albrecht, Journ. fiir Orn., 1862, 204 (Jamaica). 

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

 Columba rufina (not of Temminck) Gosse, Birds Jamaica, 1847, 296; Natural- 

 ists' Soj. in Jamaica, 1851, 173. 

 Chlomnas inornata exigua Ridgway, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xxviii, 1915, 177. 



o Three specimens . * One specimen. 



