422 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Chamiepelia trochila (not of Bonaparte) Newton, Ibia, 1859, 253, part (Jamaica; 



crit.). 

 Pyrgitoenas trochila Reichenbach, Tauben, 1862, 162, part (Jamaica). 

 Columbigallina jamaictmm Maynard, App. to Cat. Birds West Ind., 2d ed., 1899 



(=1900), 34 (Jamaica; coll. Boston Soc. N. H.); Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1903, 7 



(Jamaica). 

 Chamxpelia jamawensis Lowe, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, xxi, 1908, 110, in text 



(crit.); Ibis, 1908, 111, part (Jamaica; crit.); 1911, 145, part (Jamaica). 

 Chxmepelia passerina jamaicensis Todd, Ann. Carnegie Mus., viii, 1893, 566 



(monogr.). 



CKffiMEPELIA MINUTA EL^ODES Todd. 



PLAIN-BREASTED GROUND DOVE. 



Similar to O. m. minuta " but coloration darker, especially the 

 upper parts, the back browner or more olivaceous. 



Adult male. — Forehead and anterior portion of crown light bluish 

 gray, paler and more or less tinged with very pale vinaceous anteri- 

 orly, deepening on posterior crown and occiput into deep grayish brown 

 (deep to dark hair brown), the hindneck more grayish, sometimes 

 decidedly bluish gray; back, scapulars, proximal secondaries, rump, 

 and upper tail-coverts plain deep grayish brown (deep hair brown to 

 nearly olive-brown); wing-coverts paler and more grayish brown, 

 more or less tinged with vinaceous, some of the lesser coverts (near 

 center of lesser covert area) and proximal secondaries (on outer webs), 

 with spots of metallic blue-black or dark steel blue, those on proximal 

 secondaries more or less cuneate and oblique; distal secondaries 

 dusky grayish brown, very narrowly edged with paler; alulae dull 

 sooty blackish; primary coverts with basal half (approximately) 

 chestnut-rufous, the terminal portion dull blackish; primaries 

 mostly chestnut-rufous, but terminal portion and greater part of 

 outer web (except on innermost quills) dull black or blackish, this 

 extending to base on three or four outer quills; middle pair of rec trices 

 deep brownish gray to grayish brown, the remaining rectrices brown- 

 ish gray basally and at tip, the intermediate portion black, this 

 black band growing much broader toward lateral rectrices, on which 

 not more than the basal third is gray, while the gray tip is margined, 

 especially on outer web, with white; sides of head and neck, and 

 under parts pale vinaceous-drab to deep vinaceous-drab, lighter and 

 clearer (more vinaceous) on side of forehead (from base of bill to 

 above eye), fading into vinaceous-whitish on chin and upper throat, 

 and into buffy white on center of abdomen, the flanks tinged with 

 grayish brown; under tail-coverts grayish brown or brownish gray, 

 rather broadly, but not sharply, margined with whitish; axillars, 

 under wing-coverts, and under surface of remiges (except terminal 

 portion) rufous-chestnut or chestnut-rufous; bill olivaceous or horn 



a See p. 397. 



