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CH^EMEPELIA PASSERINA INSULARIS (Ridgway.) 



CAYMAN ISLAND GROUND DOVE. 



Similar to C. p. aflavida but bill extensively pale colored basally 

 (reddish, in life, yellowish in dried skins) and adult male with the 

 vinaceous areas slightly less purplish. 



Adult male.— Length (skins), 168-174 (171); wing, 80-84 (82); tail, 

 55-60 (57); exposed culmen, 11-12 (11.1); tarsus, 15-16.5 (15.6)." 



Adult female.— Length (skins), 159-165 (162); wing, 78-83 (SI); 

 tail, 55-60 (57); exposed culmen, 11-11.5 (11.2); tarsus, 15. & 



Grand Cayman Island, south of Cuba. (Also Little Cayman and 

 Cayman Brae?.) 



Columbigallina passerina (not Columba passerina Linnaeus) Cory, Auk, iii, 

 1886, 502 (Grand Cayman); iv, 1887, 116, part; vi, 1889, 32 (Cayman Brae); 

 Birds West Ind., 1889, 217, part; Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 97, part (Grand 

 Cayman; Little Cayman; Cayman Brae), 139, part (crit.). 



Chamaspelia passerina Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxi, 1893, 473, part 

 (Grand Cayman). — Nicoll, Ibis, 1904, 585 (Grand Cayman; crit.). 



Columbigallina passerina insularis Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., x, sig. 36, 

 Aug. 6, 1888, 574 (Grand Cayman, south of Cuba; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.; 

 ex Townsend, manuscript). — Cory, Birds West Ind., 1889, 297 (Grand Cay- 

 man; Cayman Brae; crit.). — Bbrlepsch, Journ. fur Orn., 1892, 98, in text 

 (crit.).— Hartert, Ibis, 1893, 305, in text (crit.). 



[Chamsepelia] insularis Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 82. 



Chamsepelia insularis Lowe, Ibis, 1908, 113 (crit., etc.). 



Columbigallina insularis Maynard, Cat. Birds West Ind., 1903, 7 (Grand Cayman). 



Chamsepelia passerina insularis Lowe, Ibis, 1907, 116, in text (Cayman islands; 

 crit,). 



Chsemepelia passerina insularis Todd, Ann. Carnegie Mus., viii, 1913, 564 

 (monogr.). 



Chamaspelia jamaicensis (not of Maynard) Lowe, Ibis, 1908, 111, part (Cayman 

 islands; crit.); 1909, 341 (Grand Cayman; crit.); 1911, 145, part (Grand 

 Cayman; references). 



The status of specimens from Little Cayman is doubtful, owing to paucity of material 

 examined. 



1957°— Bull. 50, pt 7—16—27 



