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(??) C[olumba] meridionalis "■ Latham, Suppl. Index Orn., ii, 1801, p. lx (based 

 on Southern Pigeon Latham, Synopsis Birds, Suppl., ii, 270; "New Hol- 

 land"; alleged types, from Jamaica, now in coll. Liverpool Mus., fide Forbes 

 and Robinson, Bull. Liverp. Mus., i, 1898, 36; ii, 1900, 137). 



Columba meridionalis Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., xxvi, 1818, 346; Tabl. 

 Enc. Meth., i, 1823, 376.— Desmarest, Diet. Sci. Nat., xl, 1826, 371.— 

 Lesson, Oompl. Buffon, Ois., viii, 1837, 74; 2d ed., 1838, 289.— Bonaparte, 

 Consp. Av., ii, 1857, 91.— Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxi, 1893, 641.— 

 Forbes and Robinson, Bull. Liverp. Mus., i, 1898, 36 ("type" in coll. 

 Liverpool Mus . ; crit . ) . » 



C[olumba] meridionalis Wagler, Syst. Av., 1827, Columba, sp. dub., 16. 



Phaps meridionalis Reichenbach, Tauben, i, 1861, 39. 



[Phaps] meridionalis Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 245, no. 9430. 



[Zenaida] meridionalis Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 76, part (Bahamas; Florida 

 Keys; Antilles). — Forbes and Robinson, Bull. Liverp. Mus., ii, 1900, 137 

 (Jamaica; types of Southern Pigeon var. A. Latham, Gen. Hist. Birds, viii, 

 1822, 28). 



Zenaida Tneridionalis Lowe, Ibis, 1911, 145 (Cayman Brae). 



C[olumba] zenaida Bonaparte, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., v, 1825, 30 ■(southern 

 part of Florida). 



Columba zenaida Bonaparte, Zool. Journ., iii, 1827, 53 (Havana, Cuba); Ann. 

 Lye. N. Y., ii, 1826, 139; ii, 1828, 441; Am. Om., iii, 1828, 23, pi. 17, fig. 2.— 

 Nuttaix, Man. Orn. U. S. and Can., Land Birds, 1832, 625; 2d ed., 1840, 757 — 

 Audubon, Orn. Biog., ii, 1834, 354, pi. 162; v. 1839, 558; Synopsis, 1839, 191; 

 Birds Am., oct. ed., v, 1842, 9, pi. 281.— D'Orbignt, in La Sagra, Hist. Nat. 

 Cuba, Ois., 1839, 177 (large ed., p. 130). 



Peristera zenaida Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, iv, no. 35 (Columbae), 1873, 140 

 (Jamaica). 



[Zenaida] zenaida Bonaparte, Consp. Av., ii, 1857, 82. 



Zenaida zenaida Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., viii, Sept. 2, 1885, 355; Auk, 

 viii, 1891, 336 (New Providence I.), 337 (Cat I.; Watling I.), 338 (Rum 

 Cay). — American Ornithologists' Union, Check List., 1886 (and 2d ed., 

 1895), no. 317; 3d ed., 1910, 149.— Cory, Auk, iv, 1887, 113 (synonymy, 

 descr., geog. range); viii, 1891, 297 (Caicos Islands, Bahamas), 351 (Inagua, 

 Bahamas), 352 (Anguilla); Birds West Ind., 1889, 214; Cat. West Ind. Birds, 

 1892, 97, 138 (Great Bahama, Abaco, Biminis, Berry, Eleuthera, New Provi- 

 dence, Andros, San Salvador or Cat, Concepcion, Watling, Rum Cay, 

 North Caicos, Grand Caico3, East Caicos, and Great Inagua islands, Bahamas; 

 Cuba; Isle of Pines; Grand Cayman; Little Cayman; Cayman Brae; Jamaica; 

 Haiti). — Northrop, Auk, viii, 1891, 76 (Andros I.). — Scott, Auk, ix, 1892, 



«■ This name has been adopted by Messrs. Forbes and Robinson for the species on 

 the ground that specimens alleged to be Latham's types, preserved in the Liverpool 

 Museum, prove to be the species known as Zenaida zenaida Bonaparte. The speci- 

 mens in question, however, are not the types of Latham's Columba meridionalis of 1801, 

 which was based on a specimen in Mr. Swainson's collection, but are the types of 

 Latham's Southern Pigeon var. A, described in the General History of Birds, viii, 1822, 

 28, and consequently have nothing to do with the determination of C. meridionalis. 

 Furthermore, the description of the latter does not at all correspond in some respects 

 with the characters of Z. zenaida but agrees much better with those of Z. aurita, as 

 the following will show: 



"Size of a Turtle; length 10 inches; general color of the plumage deep reddish 

 brown; a little paler on the breast; from thence all beneath is pale reddish white." 



