BIEDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 441 



ee. Inner webs of remiges cinnamon or rufous-cinnamon quite to the shafts; 

 middle of crown brownish gray; under parts more extensively white, 

 vinaceous of chest more restricted; back, etc., more olivaceous. (Island 



of Grenada, Lesser Antilles.) leptotila wellsi (p. 461) . 



cc. Occiput and nape (also hindneck) slate-gray, in strong contrast with brown of 

 back, etc. (Southeastern Mexico to northern Colombia). 



Leptotila plumbeioeps (p. 462). 

 66. Upper parts deep cinnamon-brown to dull chestnut or auburn (the pileum 

 and nape slate-gray). (Coiba Island, western Panama.) 



leptotila battyi (p. 464). 



LEPTOTILA JAMAICENSIS (Linnaeus). 



JAMAICAN DOVE. 



Adult male. — Forehead and anterior portion of crown white, pass- 

 ing into bluish gray or occiput and nape, which are glossed with 

 metallic bronze, bronze-green, or purple; hindneck and sides .of neck 

 bright metallic coppery bronze or purple, passing through bronze- 

 green into bluish green or greenish blue on extreme lower portion 

 of hindneck; rest of upper parts olive-brown, faintly glossed with 

 bronze, the extreme upper back sometimes glossed with dark purple 

 or coppery bronze, the brown of upper parts becoming somewhat more 

 grayish posteriorly; alulae, primary coverts, and primaries dark gray- 

 ish brown, the primaries (especially the longer ones) edged distally 

 with pale brown or cinnamon; middle rectrices concoler with back, 

 etc. (or sometimes more grayish), the other rectrices deep gray or 

 brownish gray becoming more or less darker subterminally and 

 tipped with white, this becoming gradually broader toward the 

 outermost rectrix, the outer web of which is narrowly edged with 

 white; malar, suborbital, and auricular regions very pale pinkish 

 gray (nearly pallid quaker drab or pallid mouse gray) passing into 

 white on chin and throat; foreneck and chest very pale grayish 

 vinaceous or pinkish pale vinaceous-fawn, passing into white on 

 lower breast and more posterior under parts; axillars and under 

 wing-coverts dull cinnamon-rufous or mikado brown, the under 

 surface of remiges similar but slightly paler, passing into brownish 

 gray distally; bill black; iris whitish with an outer ring of reddish; 

 legs and feet lake red; length (skins), 272-331 (312); wing, 146-162 



Sundevall, Av. Nat. disp. Tent., 1873, 100— Engyptila rufaxilla Salvin, Ibis, 1886, 

 174 (Brit. Guiana). — Columba frontalis Temminck and Knip, Pig., i, fam. trois., 

 1808-11, 18, pi. 10 (Guiana). — Columba jamaieensis (not of Linnaeus) Temminck, 

 Pig. et Gallin., i, 1813, 411, 495, part. — Peristera jamaicensis Selby, Naturalists' Libr., 

 Pigeons, 1835, 207, part. — [Leptoptild] dubusi Bonaparte, Consp. Av., ii, 1857, 74 

 (Rio Napo, e. Ecuador; coll. Paris Mae.)— Leptoptila dubusi Sclater and Salvin, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. Lond., 1866, 198 (Rio Ucayali, e. Peru). 



Only two or three examples of this species have been examined. Its geographic 

 range is so extensive that it probably requires subdivision. 



