BIRDS OP NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 321 



lars, and wing-coverts grayish brown, and distal wing-coverts white 

 (forming a conspicuous elongated patch). 



Range. — Dutch West Indies (islands of Curacao, Aruba, "and Bon- 

 aire) ; Caribbean coast of Colombia and Venezuela. (Monotypic.) 



CROSSOPHTHALM0S GYMNOPHTALMOS (Temminck). 

 BABE-EYES PIGEON. 



Adult male. — Head and upper neck plain vinaceous-gray (more 

 grayish on occiput, more vinaceous on forehead), somewhat paler on 

 sides of head, still paler (pallid vinaceous-drab) on chin and throat; 

 hindneck darker, each feather with a narrow subapical bar of dull 

 black (passing into light gray on terminal edge), preceded by a light- 

 colored bar, these latter bars narrower and mostly whitish on upper 

 hindneck, broader and mostly (if not wholly) vinaceous on lower 

 hindneck; back, scapulars, wing-coverts (except outermost ones) and 

 proximal secondaries (tertials) drab, some of the feathers with indis- 

 tinctly paler margins ; distal (outer) wing- coverts white or buffy white, 

 forming a conspicuous longitudinal patch or stripe on wing; remiges 

 (except proximal secondaries), primary coverts, and alulae dull 

 blackish brown or dusky, the secondaries conspicuously margined 

 with white apically, the primaries less sharply margined with brown- 

 ish gray; rump clear light bluish gray (nearly gull gray) anteriorly, 

 becoming slightly deeper gull gray posteriorly, passing into nearly 

 mouse gray on upper tail-coverts and tail, the lateral rectices, how- 

 ever, with proximal half or more much paler (dull whitish), especially 

 on inner webs ; under parts plain pale purple-drab anteriorly, passing 

 into light vinaceous-drab, tinged with light grayish vinaceous, pos- 

 teriorly, the posterior flanks, anal region, and under tail-coverts white; 

 axillars and under wing-coverts light gull gray, the latter intermixed 

 with white, especially on posterior coverts; under surface of remiges 

 deep brownish gray; bill pink or flesh color (in life); iris orange to 

 orange-brown; papillose bare orbital space dark brownish red or 

 reddish brown, the narrow, smooth inner ring bluish gray (in life) ; 

 legs and feet red (in'lif e) ; length (skins), 320-370 (344) ; wing, 186-203 

 (193.8); tail, 110-126 (117.1); culmen, 15.5-17 (16.1); tarsus, 25-28 

 (26.9); middle toe, 29-32.5 (31). ffi 



Adult female. — Similar to the adult male but averaging decidedly 

 duller, the head, neck, and under parts grayer (less vinaceous), the 

 pinkish bars on lower hindneck usually somewhat paler, sometimes 

 less sharply defined; length (skins), 300-345 (322); wing, 180-190.5 



o Nine specimens. 

 1957°— Bull. 50, pt 7—16 21 



