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Ibis, 1893, 304 (Aruba I.; crit.), 324 (Aruba; Curasao; Bonaire; crit.; habits), 

 334 (Bonaire; habits).— Robinson, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xviii, 1896, 658 

 (Margarita I., Venezuela).— Cory, Pub. 137, Field Mus. N. H., 1909, 198 

 (Aruba), 205 (Curasao), 210 (Bonaire), 240 (Margarita I.).— Salvadori, Cat. 

 Birds Brit. Mus., xxi, 1893, 389, part (Curasao; Grenada; Grenadines; Vene- 

 zuela?). 



[Zenaida] vinaceo-rufa Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 77 (Venezuela?; Curasao; 

 Grenada; Grenadines).— Forbes and Robinson, Bull. Liverp. Mus., ii, 

 1900, 137. 



Zenaida vinaceo ru/a Peters, Journ. fur Orn., 1892, 113 (Curasao). 



Zenaida mnaceorufa Berlepsch, Journ. fur Om., 1892, 95 (Curasao; crit.), 97 

 (description), 102 (distribution).— Clark (A. EL), Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., 

 xxxii, 1905, 261 (Grenada; Carriacou; crit.; habits; descr. nest and eggs).— 

 Cort, Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 97, 139 (Grenada; Grenadines; Curasao). 



(?) Zenaida ruficauda mnaceorufa? Berlepsch and Hartert, Novit. Zool., ix, 

 April, 1902, 118 (Altagracia and Caicara, Orinoco Valley, Venezuela; crit.). 



Zenaida ruficauda mnaceorufa Hartert, Novit. Zool., ix, 1902, 305 (Aruba; Cura- 

 sao; Bonaire)." 



Zenaida rubripes Lawrence, Auk, ii, Oct., 1885, 357 (Grenada, Lesser Antilles; 

 coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.); vi; 1889, 21 (Grenada).— Cory, Auk, iv, 1887, 115; 

 Birds West Ind.,- 1889, 216— Wells, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., ix, 1886, 624; 

 List Birds Grenada, 1886, 7. 



[Zenaida] rubripes Cory, List Birds West Ind., rev. ed., 1886, 24 (Grenada). 



Engyptila wellsi (not of Cory) Lawrence, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., ix, 1886, 625 

 (Grenada). 



Genus NESOPELIA Sundevall. 



Nesopeliab Sundevall, Met. Nat. Av. Disp. Tent., ii, 1873, 99. (Type Zenaida 

 galapagoensis Gould.) 



Similar to Zenaida but bill relatively larger and distinctly decurved; 

 tail relatively much shorter (less than three-fifths as long as wing), 

 much less graduated, and consisting of only twelve (instead of four- 

 teen) rectrices, and wing-coverts conspicuously streaked or spotted 

 with white and black. 



Bill moderately large, the exposed culmen longer than lateral toes 

 (without claws), slightly but distinctly decurved, with horny terminal 

 portion relatively long (that of maxilla equal to or greater than 

 distance from its base to base of nasal operculum) ; greatest depth of bill 

 equal to width, decidedly less than one-third length of exposed culmen; 

 frontal feathering advancing as far as or very slightly beyond malar 

 antia, the mental antia reaching about as far as anterior end of nostrils. 

 Wing moderate, pointed, the longest primaries exceeding distal 

 secondaries by a little more than one-third the length of wing; first 

 and second, or first, second and third, primaries (from outside) equal 

 and longest, the outermost with inner web rather strongly incised 

 subterminally. Tail less than three-fifths as long as wing, slightly but 

 decidedly rounded, consisting of twelve moderately broad rectrices. 

 Tarsus decidedly longer than middle toe (without claw), its upper 



a May be Z. r. robinsoni. & N>;<ros, insula [+ ijiXeta, a dove]. 



