BIRDS OP NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



371 



or more restricted in area; length (skins), 211-234 (223); wing, 

 123-132 (128.1); tail, 77.5-88.5 (80.7); exposed culmen, 13-15 

 (13.9); tarsus, 19-21 (20.1); middle toe, 20-21 (20.3). ° 



Young. — Very different in coloration from adults, except remiges 

 and rectrices; wing-coverts and scapulars margined terminally (more 

 or less distinctly) with paler, the lesser and middle coverts sometimes 

 with a small medio-terminal wedge-shaped streak of dull white; 

 ground color of f oreneck and chest dull light buffy brownish (some- 

 times intermixed with dusky), the feathers with paler terminal mar- 

 gins and narrow (sometimes wedge-shaped) mesial streaks; no me- 

 tallic reflections on sides of neck. 



Islands near coast of Venezuela (Margarita ; Aruba ; Bonaire ; Curacao ; 

 Grenada; Glovers Island, near Grenada; Carriacou); and arid coast 

 district of Venezuela (Merida; El Trompillo, Carababo; Tocuyo; San 

 Feliz; San German de Upata). 



Zmaida ruficauda'! (not of Bonaparte) Eidgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vii, 



1884, 176 (Curacao). 

 Zenaida vinaceo-rufa Eidgway, Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus., vii, gig. 11, Sept. 1, 1884, 



176 (Curagao Island, Dutch West Indies; coll. TJ. S. Nat. Mus.).— Habteet, 



a Ten specimens. 



Locality. 



Middle 

 toe. 



MALES. 



One adult male from Bogota, Colombia (type of Z. bogotensis 

 Lawrence=Z. ruficauda Bonaparte?) 



Three adult males from Tolima and Honda, Colombia (Z. r. 

 robinsoni) 



Two adult males from interior of Venezuela (Z. r. robinsoni). . . 



One adult male from British Guiana (Z. r. jessieset) 



Three adult males from Dlamantina, lower Amazon (Z. r. 

 jessiex) 



One adult male from Boa Vista, Fernambuco, Brazil (Z. r. 

 jessieas?) 



Six adult males from coast district of Venezuela (Z. r. vinaceo- 

 rufa) 



Three adult males from Margarita I., Venezuela (Z. r vinaceo- 

 rufa) 



One adult male from Bonaire I. (Z. r. vinaceo-rufa) 



Two adult males from Aruba I. (Z. r. vinaceo-rufa) 



Three adult males from Curacao I. (Z.r. vinaceo-rufa) 



Two adult males from Grenada (Z. r. vinaceo-rufa) 



FEMALES. 



Three adult females from coast district of Venezufla (Z. >. 



vinaceo-rufa) 



One adult female from British Guiana (Z. rjessiese?) 



Three adult females from Curacao (Z. r. vinaceo-rufa) 



One adult female from Bonaire (Z. r. vinaceo-rufa) 



One adult female from Carriacou (Z. r. vinaceo-rufa) 



Two adult females from Grenada (Z. r. vinaceo-rufa) 



21.3 

 19.7 



19 



20.7 



21.2 



21.1 



21.2 



22 



21.5 



20.2 

 22 



19.8 



18.5 



20.7 



20.5 



21 



20 



