BIBDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 421 



CttffiMEPELIA PASSERINA JAMAICENSIS (Maynard). 



JAMAICAN GROUND DOVE. 



Similar to 0. p. aflavida but bill extensively light colored basally 

 (yellow to orange in life), the adult male darker, with upper parts 

 slightly browner, bluish gray of occiput, etc., darker, duller, and 

 more restricted, and vinac'eous of neck, chest, etc., decidedly more 

 intense. 



Adult male.— Length (skin), 152; » wing, 80-85 (82); tail, 53-59 

 (56); exposed culmen, 10.5-12 (11); tarsus, 14-16 (15.5). b 



Adult female.— Length (skin), 154-162 (158); wing, 79-85 (82); 

 tail, 52-58 (56); exposed culmen, 10-12 (11.3); tarsus, 15-16 (15.5). a 



Jamaica (Kingston; Spanishtown; Trelawney; Hope Gardens; 

 Port Antonio; Lucea; Priestman's Eiver) . 



[Columba] passerina Linnjbus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, i, 1758, 165, part (Jamaica, ex 

 Sloane); ed. 12, i, 1766, 285, part (Jamaica).— Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i. pt. ii, 

 1789, 787, part (Jamaica). 



Columba passerina Browne, Civil and Nat. Hist. Jam., ed. 2, 1789, Index No. iii, 

 [30] (Jamaica).— Denny, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1847, 38, part (Jamaica). 



Chamsepelia passerina Gray, List Gallime Brit. Mus., 1844, 14, part (Jamaica). — 

 Gosse, Birds Jamaica, 1847, 311; Naturalist's Sojourn in Jam., 1851, 173. — 

 Hartlaub, Ibis, xli, 1848, 405 (Jamaica). — Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 

 1861, 80 (Jamaica; crit.); Rev. List Jam. Birds, 1910, 19; Handb. Jamaica, 

 1910, 614. — Albrecht, Journ. fur Orn., 1862, 204 (Jamaica). — March, Proc. 

 Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1863, 302 (Jamaica; habits). — Baird, Am. Journ. Sci. 

 and Arts, (2), xli, 1866, 188, part (Jamaica); Ibis, 1867, 276, part (Jamaica).— 

 Pelzeln, Orn. Bras., 1870, 277, footnote, part (Jamaica). — Baird, Brewer, 

 and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, iii, 1874, 389, part (Jamaica). — Salvadori, 

 Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxi, 1893, 473, part (near Spanishtown, Jamaica). — 

 Oates, Cat. Birds, Eggs Brit. Mus., i, 1901, 101, part (Jamaica). — Salvin 

 and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1902, 250, part (Jamaica; crit.). 



Ch[amaepelia] passerina Bonaparte, Consp. Av., ii, 1857, 77, part (Jamaica). 



[Chamsepelia] passerina Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 133, part. — 

 Cory, List Birds West Ind., 1885 (and rev. ed., 1886), 24, part. — Sharpe, 

 Hand-list, i, 1899, 81 (Jamaica). — Forbes and Robinson, Bull. Liverp. 

 Mus., ii, 1900, 141, part (Jamaica). 



Chsemepelia passerina Gray, List Birds Brit. Mus., Columbae, 1856, 49, part 

 (Jamaica). 



[Chsemepelia] passerina Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 239, no. 9336, part (Jamaica). 



Chsemepelia passerina passerina American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 

 3rd ed., 1910, 150. 



P\t/rgitoenas] passerina Reichenbach, Vollst. Naturg., Columbarise, i, 1861, 13, 

 part (Jamaica). 



Peristera passerina Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, iv, no. 35, 1873, 135, part (Jamaica). 



Columbigallina passerina, Cory, Auk, iv, 1887, 116, part; Birds West Ind., 1889, 

 217, part; Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892. 97, part (Jamaica). — Berlepsch, Journ. 

 fur Orn., 1892, 97, footnote, part (Jamaica). — Scott, Auk. ix, 1892, 124 (Ja- 

 maica; habits). — Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., iv, 1892, 292 (Jamaica; 

 crit.). — Field, Auk, xi, 1894, 123 (Jamaica). — Dubois, Synopsis Avium, ii, 

 1902, 763, part (crit.). 



o One specimen. ft Ten specimens. 



