442 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



(156.7); tail, 97-117 (110.7); exposed culmen, 15-17.5 (16.5); tarsus, 

 29-32.5 (30.7); middle toe, 22.5-25 (23.6).° 



Adult female— Similar to the adult male and not always distin- 

 guishable but usually with the forehead less purely white (tinged 

 with bluish gray), metallic gloss of neck somewhat less bright, and 

 color of foreneck and chest less pinkish (more grayish) ; length (skins), 

 263-317 (295); wing, 151-160 (153.9); tail, 99.5-114 (105.8); exposed 

 culmen, 15.5-17 (16.1); tarsus, 28-31 (29.4) ; middle toe, 23-24 (23.2) 6 



Jamaica (near Spanish Town; Priestmans Eiver; Moneague; St. 

 Mathews Parish) . 



[Colurriba] jamaicensis Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, i, 1766, 283 (Jamaica; ex. 



Brisson, Orn., i, 134).— Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. 2, 1789, 782.— Latham, 



Index Orn., ii, 1790, 595. 

 Columba jamaicensis Bonnaterre, Tabl. Enc. M6th., 1790, 236.— Temminck, Pig. 



et Gallin., i, 1813, 411, part.— Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., xxvi, 1818, 



398— Desmarest, Diet. Sci. Nat., xl, 1826, 307, part.— Dennt, Proc. Zool. 



Soc.Lond.,1837,39. 

 C[olumba] jamaicensis Temminck, Hist. Nat. Kg. et Gallin., i, 1813, 495, part 



("America Australi"). 

 Col [umba] jamaicensis Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., xl, 1855, 99. 

 Goura jamaicensis Stephens, Shaw's Gen. Zool., xi, 1819, 126. 

 Peristera jamaicensis Selby, Nat. Libr., v, Pigeons, 1835, 207, part.— Gosse, 



Birds Jamaica, 1847, 313; Naturalist's Soj. in Jamaica, 1851, 173.— Gray, 



List Birds Brit. Mus., Columbse, 1856, 53.— Albrecht, Journ. ftir Orn., 1862, 



204. 

 [Leptoptila] jamaicensis Reichenbach, Av. Syst. Nat., 1852, p. xxv; Tauben, i, 



1861, 24.— Bonaparte, Consp. Av., ii, 1857, 73; Icon, Pig., 1857, pi. 119.— 



Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 242, no. 9379.— Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. 



Neotr., 1873, 133.— Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 87.— Forbes and Robinson, 



Bull. Liverp. Mus., ii, 1900, 145. 

 L[eptoptila] jamaicensis Eeichenbach, Vollst. Naturg., Columbariae, i, 1861, 24. 

 Leptoptila jamaicensis March, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1863, 302.— Sclater and 



Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1868, 60.— Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 



xxi , 1893 , 557.— Sclater, Revised List Birds Jam . , 1910, 19. „ 

 Leptopila jamaicensis Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas. iv, no. 35 (Columbae), 1873, 158, 



part (Jamaica). 



a Nine specimens. 



*> Seven specimens. 



Locality. 



Wing. 



Tail. 



Ex- 

 posed 

 culmen. 



Tarsus. 



Middle 

 toe. 



MALES. 



Nine adult males of L. jamaicensis... 



Two adult males of L. collaris 



One adult male of L. neoxena 



rive adult males of L. gaumeri 



FEMALES. 



Seven adult females of L. jamaicensis 



Two adult females of L. collaris 



One adult female of L. neoxena 



156.7 

 140.5 

 140 

 144.1 



153.9 

 136.2 

 136 



110.7 

 (94) 



86.5 



95 



105.8 

 95.7 



16.5 

 16.5 



17.3 



16.1 

 16.5 

 15 



30.7 

 30.7 

 30 

 28.9 



29.4 

 29.5 

 30 



23.7 



22 



23 



23.2 



