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(185.5); tail, 103-121 (112.5); culmen, 13.5-18 (15.9); tarsus, 24-27 

 (25.6) middle toe, 28.5-33 (30.1).° 



Young". — Resembling the adult female, but whole hindneck plain 

 light brownish gray or else with narrow dull whitish or pale pinkish 

 bars but no black bars. 



Arid Caribbean coast district of Venezuela (Porlamar; Tocuyo) and 

 Colombia (Barranquilla; Taganga, Gaira, and Donjaro, Santa Marta), 

 and adjacent islands of Curacao, Aruba, Bonaire, Margarita, and 

 •Blanquiha; St. Thomas, Greater Antilles (introduced?). 



(??) Columba (corensis) Jacquin, Beytr. Gesch. VSgel, 1784, 31 (Coro, Vene- 

 zuela) .-^Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. 2, 1789, 783. 



[Columba] corensis Latham, Index Orn., ii, 1790, 605. — Chubb, Birds S. Am., i, 

 1912, 15 (crit. nomencl.). 



Columba corensis Bonnateere, Tabl. Enc. M6th., i, 1792, 245. 



Columba gymnophtalmos Temminck and Knip, Pigeons, i, second'efam., 1808-11, 

 48 [112], pi. 18, excl. syn. (no locality given).— Temminck, Hist. Nat. Pig. 

 et Gallin., i, 1813, 225. 



C[olumba] gymnophthalmos Temminck, Hist. Nat. Pig. et Gallin., i, 1813, 461 

 ("India"). 



[Columba] gymnophthalmos Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 234, no. 9266. 



Columba gymnophthalmus Stephens, in Shaw's Gen. Zool., xi, 1819, 6. — Gray, 

 List Birds Brit. Mus., Columbae, 1856, 31 (South. America).— Hartert, 

 Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, iii, 1892, p. xii (Curacao; Aruba; Bonaire); Novit. 

 Zool., ix, 1902, 305 (Curacao; Aruba; Bonaire). 



Columba gymnophthalma Scxater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1865, 239 (no. of eggs); 

 1869, 627 (breeding in captivity). — Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., xiii, 

 1900, 129 (Taganga, Santa Marta, Colombia).— Hartert, Ibis, 1893, 304, 

 (Aruba; crit.), 322 (Curacao; crit.; habits), 332 (Bonaire).— Cory, Pub. 137, 

 Field Mus. N. H., 1909, 198 (Aruba), 205 (Curacao), 210 (Bonaire), 240 (Mar- 

 garita I., Venezuela).— Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxi, 1893, 269 

 (Curacao; Aruba; Bonaire). — Robinson, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xviii, 1896, 

 658 (Margarita I.; habits). — Richmond, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xviii, 1896, 

 658 (Margarita I.; crit.; descr. female). 



. ° Ten specimens. 



Locality. 



Wing. 



Tail. 



Ex- 

 posed 

 culmen. 



Tarsus. 



Middle 

 toe. 



MALES. 



One adult male from St. Thomas, Greater Antilles 



Three adult males from Curacao Island 



One adult male from Aruba Island 



One adult male from Margarita Island 



One adult male from coast of Venezuela (Tocuyo) 



One adult male from unknown locality 



One adult male from coast of Colombia (Santa Marta) 



FEMALES. 



One adult female from Bonaire Island 



Three adult females from Curasao Island 



One adult female from Margarita Island 



One adult femalo from coast of Venezuela (Tocuyo) 



Four adult females from coast of Colombia (Barranquilla and 

 Santa Marta) 



203 



190 



194 



196 



192 



194.5 



195 



182.5 

 184 

 190.5 

 186 



186.1 



126 

 113 

 113 

 121 

 113 

 121 

 121 



109 

 114 

 111 

 112 



113.1 



17 

 16.2 



15.5 



16 



16 



16 



17 

 15.7 

 16 

 16.5 



15.7 



27 



26.5 



27.5 



28 



26 



31.5 



30.5 



31 



32 



30 



27 



24.5 

 25.3 



27 

 25.7 



29.5 



