BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



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Adult female. — Length (skins), 250-295 (280); wing, 150-170 

 (158.9); tail, 95-116 (105.6); exposed culmen, 19.5-24 (22); tarsus, 

 22-26 (24); middle toe, 23-26 (24.4).° 



Southwestern New Mexico (Guadalupe Canyon) , southern Arizona 

 (Phoenix; Santa Cruz River; Big Sandy Creek; Fuller's Eanch; Fort 

 Bowie; Cienega; 5 miles south of Nogales), southern Lower California 

 (Cape San Lucas; San Jose" del Cabo; La Paz; Santa Ulalia, 8,000 

 ft.; Agua Verde; "Victoria Mts.; San Fernando; Comondu; Soledad), 

 and southward through Sonora (Hermosillo; Guaymas; Alamos), 

 Sinaloa (Mazatlan), Jalisco (Bolaflos; Zapatlan; Guadalajara), Zaca- 

 tecas (Jerez), Aguas Calientes, Nuevo Leon (Pesqueria Grande; 

 Hacienda de las Escobas; Panaguslin; Rio de Monterey; Rio de Gilla), 

 San Luis Potosi, Tepic (Tepic; San Bias) and Colima (Plains, of 

 Colima; Manzanillo) to Guerrero (Acapulco; Iguala; Tierra Colorada), 

 Mexico (near City of Mexico) and Puebla (Atlixco; Atotonilco); Tres 

 Marias Islands (Maria Madre Island). Accidental in southwestern 

 Colorado (Wet Mountain Valley, Sept., 1899) and western Washing- 

 ton (Puyallup Valley, Nov. 7, 1907). 



(??) [Columba] hoilotl & Gmelin, Syat. Nat., i, pt. 2, 1789, 777 (Mexico; based on 

 Hoiloil Bay, Av., 63, no. 13; Columba montana mexicana Brisson, Orn., i, 



. "■ Nineteen specimens. 



Locality. 



Wing. 



Tail. 



Ex- 



cul- 

 men. 



Tarsus 



Middle 

 toe. 



MALES. 



One adult male from Guerrero 



Two adult males from Colima. . . , 



Two adult males from Sinaloa 



Two adult males from Tres Marias Islands. 



Two adult males from Sonora 



Ten adult males from Lower California 



Seven adult males from Arizona 



Three adult males from New Mexico 



Forty adult males of M. a. asiatica 



, FEMALES. 



One adult female from Colima 



One adult female from Sinaloa 



Seven adult females from Lower California, 



Eight adult females from Arizona 



Two adult females from New Mexico 



Thirty-one adult females of M. a. asiatica... 



159 



166.5 



166 



162.2 



161.8 



163.7 



163.8 



156.3 



161 



162.5 



160.1 



155.5 



165.7 



151.4 



111 



112 



113.2 



119.5 



108.7 



112.6 



108.2 



110.7 



103.4 



109 

 116 

 110 

 100.1 

 105.5 

 98.1 



23.5 



22 



21.2 



19.2 



22 



21.7 



22.9 



22.7 



19.7 



20.5 



19.5 



22 



22 



23.7 



19.3 



24.5 



24.7 



24.7 



25 



24.7 



24.6 



24.9 



24.7 



24.7 



23 



25.5 



24.2 



23.7 



24.2 



23.7 



25.5 

 25.7 

 26.7 

 25.2 

 25.3 

 25.9 

 24.3 

 24.7 



25 



25.5 



24.3 



24.2 



24.7 



Although this name has been frequently cited as possibly applying to the present 

 species, there is really little if any reason for doing so. Brisson's description is as 

 follows: " Colwmbam Romanam magnitudine fere adsequat. Per universum corpus 

 colore rufo in purpureum vergente tingitur, exceptis tectricibus alarum minoribus 

 candidis. Rostrum & pedes coccinei." [Etc.] 



There being, apparently, no other name exclusively applicable to this form, I take 

 pleasure in dedicating it to Dr. Edgar A. Mearns, who first recognized it as different 

 ffom the typical form but unfortunately used for it the name trudeaui, which proves 

 to be a synonym of asiatica. 



