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dd. Coloration paler, the upper parts more grayish. 

 e. Crown, occiput, and hindneck grayish brown (more or less suffused with 

 vinaceous in adult male), nearly concolor with back. (Western 



Colombia.) Chaemepelia passerina nana (extralimital).o 



ee. Crown, occiput, and hindneck bluish gray in adult male, contrasting with 

 color of back. 

 /. Crown, occiput, and hindneck without distinct squamations, the bluish 

 gray tinge less pronounced. 

 g. Larger (wing averaging 84.5 mm.); coloration brighter. (Western 

 Ecuador; western Peru?) 



Chaemepelia passerina quitensis (extralimital).& 



gg. Smaller (wing averaging 79 mm.); coloration darker or duller. 



(Guianas, Amazon Valley, and eastern Brazil north of 



Bahia.) Chaemepelia passerina griseola (extralimital). " 



ff. Crown, occiput, and nape with distinct squamations, the ground color 

 more distinctly bluish gray in adult males. 

 g. Vinaceous areas of adult male inclining to lavender-grayish. 

 h. Under tail-coverts extensively white; bill yellow at base (in life). 

 (Caribbean coast district of northern Colombia and Venezuela; 



Leeward Islands.) Chaemepelia passerina albivitta (p. 408). 



hh. Under tail-coverts with much less of white, the white more grayish; 

 bill olive at base (in life). (Southern Lesser Antilles, from 

 Grenada to St. Vincent and Barbados.) 



Chaemepelia passerina antillarum (p. 411). 

 gg. Vinaceous areas of adult males not inclining to lavender-grayish, 

 ft. Larger (wing averaging 80 mm. or more, tail averaging 56 mm. or 

 more). 

 i. Bill with not more than terminal half black. 

 j. Basal half and more of bill red (lake red or carmine-pink in 

 life). (Porto Bico and southward to Santa Lucia.) 



Chaemepelia passerina trochila (p. 412). 

 jj. Basal half or more of bill orange or yellow in life. 

 h. Coloration darker. (Jamaica.) 



Chaemepelia passerina jamaicensis (p. 421). 

 hh. Coloration paler. (Cayman Islands, south of cuba.) 



Chaemepelia passerina insularis (p. 417). 

 ii. Bill wholly black, or with a little red at extreme base only. 

 j. Coloration darker, the upper parts more brownish. 

 (Cuba; Isle of Pines; Haiti). 



Chaemepelia passerina aflavida (p. 415). 



a Chsemepelia passerina nana Todd, Ann. Carnegie Mus., viii, May 8, 1913, 546 

 (Jimenez, Rio Dagua, w. Colombia; coll. Carnegie Mus.). 



& Chsemepelia passerina quitensis Todd, Ann. Carnegie Mus., viii, May 8, 1913, 547 

 (Zambiza, 6 miles n. e. of Quito, Ecuador; coll. Carnegie Mus.). 



« Columbina griseola Spix, Avium Sp. Nov. (Av. Bras.), ii, 1825, 58, pi. 75a, fig. 2 

 (Amazon River; coll. Munich Mus.). — Chamse.pelia griseola Pelzeln, Orn. Bras., 1870, 

 277.— Columbigallina passerina griseola Hellmayr, Abh. K. Bayer. Ak. Wiss.,ii, Kl., 

 xxii, 1906, 697, part. — Columbina passerina griseola Allen, Auk, xxv, 1908, 306, in text.— 

 Chsemepelia passerina griseola Todd, Ann. Carnegie Mus., viii, 1913, 548 (monogr.). 



