BIEDS OP NORTH AND MIDDLE AMEEICA. 



413 



Adult male.— Length (skins), 167-171 (169); wing, 77-83 (80); 

 tail, 53-63 (57.5); exposed culmen, 10.5-12 (11.1); tarsus, 15-17 

 (16).° 



Adult female.— Length, (skins), 155-166 (160); wing, 77-85 (80); 

 tail, 51-62 (56); exposed culmen, 11-12.5 (11.3); tarsus, 15-17.5 

 (15.7). 6 



Lesser Antilles north of St. Vincent (Santa Lucia; Martinique; 

 Dominica; Guadeloupe; Desirade; Antigua; Barbuda; St. Barthol- 

 omew; St. Christopher; St. Eustatius; Montserrat; Saba; Anguilla; 

 and easternmost Greater Antilles (St. Croix; Anegada; Virgin Gorda; 

 T6rtola; St. John; St. Thomas; Culebra; Vieques; Porto Rico). 



Colwmba passerina (not of Linnseus) Fahlbebg, Kongl. Vetensk. Acad. Nya 

 Handl., vii, 1786, 253 (St. Bartholomew). — Temminck, in Temnrinck 

 and Knip, Pigeons, i, 1808-11, Colombi-gallines, 24, part, pis. 13, 14 

 (Porto Rico); Hist. Nat. Pig. et Gallin., i, 1813, 425, part (Porto Rico).— 

 Ledrtj, Voy. lies Teneriffe, Trinite, etc., ii, 1810, 39 (St. Thomas; St. Croix; 

 Porto Rico). — Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., xxvi, 1818, 401, part 

 (Martinique). — Desmabest, Diet. Sci. Nat., xl, 1826, 308, part (Porto 

 Rico). — Lesson, Compl. Buffon, Ois., viii, 1837, 12, part (Porto Rico). — 

 Bryant, Journ. fiir Orn., 1866, 191 (Porto Rico); Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., 

 x, 1866, 257 (Porto Rico).— Sundevall, (Efv. Kongl. Vet.-Ak. P6rh., 1869 

 (1870), 586, part (St. Bartholomew), 601 (Porto Rico). — Gtjndlach, Journ. 

 fiir Orn., 1874, 308 (Porto Rico).— Lawrence, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, ,1879, 

 450 (Guadeloupe). 



a Eighteen specimens. 



Sixteen specimens. 



Locality. 



Wing. 



Tail. 



Ex- 

 posed 

 culmen. 



Tarsus. 



Two adult males from Dominica 



Two adult males from Santa Lucia.. 

 Two adult males from Guadeloupe. . . 



Two adult males from Antigua 



Two adult males from Barbuda 



One adult male from St. Christopher . 

 One adult male from St. Eustatius . . . 



One adult male from St. Johns 



Two adult males from St. Thomas 



Three adult males from Porto Rico . . . 



Two adult females from Dominica 



Two adult females from Santa Lucia. . 



Two adult females from Antigua 



Two adult females from Barbuda 



One adult female from St. Eustatius . . 



One adult female from Anegada 



Three adult females from St. Thomas. 

 Three adult females from Porto Rico . . 



80 



78.5 



81 



80 



77.5 



81 



80 



81 



81.5 



80 



81.5 

 83.5 

 78.5 

 79.5 

 78 



58 

 58 

 62 

 55 

 56 

 63 

 56 

 55 

 58 

 55.7 



57.5 



61 



58 



55 



56 



55 



53 



54.7 



11.2 



12 



10.7 



11 



10.5 



11 



11 



10.5 



11.2 



11.3 



12 



12.2 



11 



11 



11 



11 



11 



11 



16.5 

 16.5 

 15.7 

 (15.5) 

 15.5 

 16 

 15 

 15.5 

 15.5 

 16.5 



16 



17.2 



15.5 



15.7 



15 



16 



15 



15.3 



