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CHLORffiNAS INORNATA PROXIMA (Todd). 



ISLE OF PINES PIGEON-. 



Similar to 0. i. inornata but coloration much, paler and grayer, 

 the pileum grayish purple-drab, the rest of head and neck, chest, 

 etc., light purple-drab, the rufescent wing-patch dull livid brown, 

 the rump, etc., lighter gull gray, and white edgings to distal wing- 

 coverts averaging decidedly narrower; the adult female with occiput 

 and nape quaker drab (whole head sometimes light mouse gray, 

 deepening into neutral gray or deep gull gray on occiput and nape) , 

 neck and upper chest light purple-drab passing into pale vinaceous- 

 drab on lower chest, breast, etc., and brown wing-patch indistinct 

 (nearly obsolete) . 



Adult male.— Length (skins), 333-360 (344); wing, 199-211 (205); 

 tail, 121-127.5 (123.8); culmen, 18-20 (19); tarsus, 27.5-30 (28.8); 

 middle toe, 32.5-35.5 (34).° 



Adult female. — Length (skins), 312-358 (333); wing, 199.5-211 

 (204.4); tail, 114-124.5 (121.7); culmen, 18-21 (19.8); tarsus, 

 26-29 (27.9); middle toe, 31.5-35.5 (33.5) . 6 



Isle of Pines, near Cuba (Los Indios) . 



Chhroenas inornata (not Columba inornata Vigors) Gttndlach, Journ. fur Om., 

 1861, 416, part (Isle of Pines); Contr. Orn. Cubana, 1876, 128, part (Isle of 

 Pines); Orn. Cubana, 1895, 155, part (Isle of Pines). 



Columba inornata Coey, Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 9, 97, part (Isle o£ Pines). — 

 Bangs and Zappey, Am. Nat., xxxix, 1905, 196 (Isle of Pines). 



Columba inornata proxima Todd, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, xxviii, 1915, 170. 



CHXORCENAS INORNATA EXSUL Ridgway. 



PORTO EIOAK PLAIN PIGEON. 



Similar to O. i. inornata but coloration slightly deeper, the fore- 

 head nearly, if not quite, concolor with rest of pileum, and white 

 edgings to distal wing-coverts averaging broader; similar also to 

 O. i. exigua but coloration less deep. 



Adult male. — Length (skins), 328-334 (331); wing, 203-216.5 

 (209.7); tail, 119-131 (125); culmen, 17-19.5 (18.2); tarsus, 

 27.5-29.5 (28.5); middle toe, 36-37 (36.5) . c 



Adult female. — Wing, 209.5; tail, 126; culmen, 19; tarsus, 30; 

 middle toe, 35.* 



Island of Porto Rico (Utuado) . 



Chhroenas inornata (not Columba inornata Vigors) Gundlach, Journ. fur Orn., 

 1874, 312 (Porto Rico); 1878, 160, 185 (Porto Rico); Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. 

 Nat., vii, 1878, 343 (Porto Rico).— Sundevall, (Efv. K. Vet.-Ak. F6rh., 1869, 

 601 (Porto Rico). 



a Three specimens. 



6 Ten specimens. 



« Two specimens; neither of them sexed by the collector, but almost certainly males. 



& One specimen. 



