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ZENAIDA ZENAIDA YUCATANENSIS (Salvadori). 



SALVADORI'S DOVE. 



Similar to Z. z. zenaida but general coloration very slightly paler ( ?), 

 and with hindneck distinctly grayish. 



Adult male.— Length (skins), 264-281 (270); wing, 147-156 (152.3); 

 tail, 92-94.5 (93.2); exposed culmen, 13-15 (14.3); tarsus, 24-25 

 (24.5); middle toe, 22.5-23.5 (22.8).° 



Adultfemale. — Length (skin), 255; wing, 146.5; tail, 86.5; exposed 

 culmen, 14.5; tarsus, 24; middle toe, 21. b 



Coast and islands of Yucatan (Silam; Progreso; Rio Lagartos; 

 Cozumel Island; Holbox Island; Mugeres Island). 



Zenaida amabilis (not of Bonaparte) Botjoard, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1883, 458 

 (Yucatan). — Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1883, 458, footnote; Ibis, 1889, 

 377 (Holbox and Mugeres Islands, Yucatan; crit.), 91 (Holbox and Mugeres 

 I.), 92 (crit.), 93 (distribution). 



Z[enaida] amabilis Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 213, part (Yucatan). 



[Zenaida] amabilis Salvin, Ibis, 1890, 89 (Holbox and Mugeres I., Yucatan). 



Zenaida yucatanensis Salvadoei, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxi, 1893, 384 (Rio 

 Lagartos, n. Yucatan; coll. Brit. Mus.). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.- 

 Am., Aves, iii, 1902, 245 (Rio Lagartos, Progreso, Cozumel I., Holbox I., 

 and Mugeres I., Yucatan). 



[Zenaida] yucatanensis Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 77. — Forbes and Robinson, 

 Bull. Liverp. Mus., ii, 1900, 137. 



ZENAIDA SPADICEA Cory. 

 BAY DOVE. 



Similar to Z. z. zenaida, but coloration very much darker. 



Adult male. — Forehead walnut brown or roods brown, passing into 

 deep burnt umber on crown and occiput; sides of head (including 

 superciliary and supra-auricular regions) deep russet, passing into 

 light cinnamon or deep cinnamon-buff on chin and upper throat and 

 into purplish russet or deep pecan brown on chest and other under 

 parts, including under tail-coverts; a subauricular spot of glossy blue- 

 black or steel blue; lower sides of neck brightly glossed with metallic 

 purple and violet (changing to violet-blue); general color of upper 

 upper parts bister or warm-sepia brown, the inner webs of inner row 

 of proximal secondaries black (except terminally) , the proximal mid- 

 dle wing coverts with a few small black spots; distal greater wing- 

 coverts more grayish brown; alueae, primary coverts, primaries, and 

 distal secondaries dull black or grayish black, the last broadly tipped 

 with white, the primaries very narrowly edged with dull whitish and 

 more distinctly margined terminally with the same; tail crossed by 

 a subterminal band of black, this broader on lateral rectrices, nar- 

 rower on middle pair (where sometimes obsolete), the terminal por- 



a Three specimens; one of them said to be female but undoubtedly a male. 

 6 One specimen. 



