370 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



ZENAIDA RUFICAUDA VINACEO-RUFA (Ridgway). 



CURAQAO DOVE. 



Similar to Z. r. ruficauda a but decidedly smaller and coloration 

 paler. 



Adult male. — Forehead (broadly), sides of crown and occiput, sides 

 of head and neck, and under parts, between light grayish vinaceous 

 and pale purple-drab, fading on chin and upper throat into dull white 

 or pale vinaceous-buff, becoming somewhat more pinkish posteriorly, 

 the under tail-coverts nearly vinaceous-fawn color; crown, occiput, 

 and nape light bluish gray (between light neutral gray and gull gray), 

 the hindneck more brownish gray or grayish brown; a subauricular 

 spot or streak of glossy blue-black (or black glossed with steel blue) 

 and a streak of the same along upper margin of auricular region; 

 sides of lower neck brightly glossed with metallic coppery bronze or 

 golden, the lower hindneck more faintly glossed with the same; back, 

 scapulars, wing-coverts, and proximal secondaries, grayish brown 

 (deep drab to grayish drab or light hair brown), the rump, upper tail- 

 coverts, and middle rectrices similar but usually decidedly more gray- 

 ish, especially the upper rump; distal wing-coverts and secondaries 

 brownish gray, very narrowly edged with paler; proximal secondaries 

 and greater wing-coverts with a few large roundish or oblong spots 

 of black; alulae, primary coverts, and primaries, and distal second- 

 aries dull blackish gray or dusky, the last very narrowly edged with 

 whitish and margined terminally with paler brownish gray or grayish 

 brown; tail crossed by a subterminal band of black (indistinct, some- 

 times obsolete, on middle rectrices and wanting on outer web of out- 

 ermost pair), the terminal third (approximatly) of four or five outer 

 rectrices (on each side) light pecan brown or dull vinaceous-tawny, 

 paler toward the outermost rectrix, the outer web of which is wholly 

 pale dull light vinaceous-cinnamon, like distal portion of inner web; 

 the distal portion of second and third, or second, third, and fourth 

 rectrices (from middle) grayish brown or brownish gray, the prox- 

 imal portion of all (except middle pair) darker brownish gray or 

 grayish brown; bill black; iris deep brown; bare orbital space light 

 blue or grayish blue; legs and feet lake red; length (skins), 210-260 

 (233); wing, 129.5-143.5 (134.1); tail, 80-99 (85.9); exposed cul- 

 men, 13.5-16 (15.3); tarsus, 20-22.5 (21.1); middle toe, 20-22.5 

 (21.1). 6 



Adult female. — Similar to the adult male but coloration of head, 

 neck, and anterior under parts duller, the occiput, etc., less distinctly 

 (sometimes not at all) grayish, the forehead, foreneck, etc., less vina- 

 ceous, black markings on sides of head less strongly or not at all 

 glossed with blue, and metallic reflection on sides of neck less brilliant 



« See p. 356. i> Twenty specimens. 



