BIBDS OP NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 443 



E[ngyptila] jamaicensis Newton (A. and E.), Handb. Jamaica, 1881, 114. — 

 Engyptila jamaicenris Salvin, Cat. Strickland Coll., 1882, 550; Ibis, 1890, 91, part 



(Jamaica). — Cory, Auk, iv, 1887, 111 (synonymy; descr.; range); Birds West 



Ind., 1889, 212; Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 97— Scott, Auk, ix, 1892, 123 



(habits).— Field, Auk, xi, 1894, 123. 

 [Engyptila] jamaicensis Cory, List Birds West Ind., rev. ed., 1886, 23. 

 C[oluraba] ruf axilla (not of Richard and Bernard) Wagler, Syst. Av., 1827. 



Columba, sp. 66, part. 

 Peristera rufaxilla Selby, Jardine's Naturalists' Libr., v. 1835, pi. 24 (see p. 207), 

 [Leptoptila] rufaxilla Reichenbach, Tauben, i, 1861, 25, part. 

 Per [istera] albifrons Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., xl. 1855, 99 (crit). 

 [Leptoptila] albifrons Bonaparte, Consp. Av., ii, 1857, 74 ("Mexica;' ! "Cuba;' ! 



coll. Paris Mus."). 

 L[eptoptila] albifrons Reichenbach, Vollst, Naturg., Columbariae, i, 1861, 26, 



part ("Cuba"). 

 Leptopila albifrons Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Baa, iv, no. 35 (Columbae), 1873, 160 



("Cuba"). 



LEPTOTILA COLLARIS (Cory). 



GRAND CAYMAN DOVE. 



Similar to L. jamaicensis but wing and tail decidedly shorter, color 

 of upper parts darker and browner, and white tips to lateral rectrices 

 much shorter. 



Adults (sexes alike) . — Forehead and anterior part of crown white, 

 passing into slate-gray on posterior part of crown, the occiput darker 

 and more brownish (dusky drab), faintly glossed with purplish 

 bronze; hindneck and sides of neck vinaceous-brown, brightly glossed 

 with metallic reddish bronzy purple (this extending to sides of chest) , 

 the lower portion of hindneck glossed with greenish bronze or bronze- 

 green; back, scapulars, wing-coverts, proximal secondaries, rump, and 

 upper tail-coverts plain olive-brown to nearly mars brown, the 

 alulae, primary coverts, and primaries darker, the last edged distally 

 with dull whitish to pale rusty; middle rectrices deep grayish brown 

 or fuscous, the other rectrices more grayish (between slate color and 

 deep neutral gray) becoming darker (dull blackish slate) subterminally 

 and tipped with white, this about 10-12 mm. long on outermost pair, 

 decreasing in extent and more grayish toward middle pair; auricular 

 region dull ecru-drab, passing into much paler anteriorly (on sub- 

 orbital and malar regions) and dull white on chin and throat; foreneck 

 and chest pale grayish vinaceous, passing into buffy white on lower 

 breast and more posterior under parts, the sides faintly tinged with 

 pale grayish vinaceous; axillars, under wing-coverts, and under 

 surface of remiges (except terminally) rufous-cinnamon or mikado 

 brown; bill black; iris white or gray; legs and feet red. 



Adult male.— Length (skin), 259; b wing, 138-143 (140.5);" tail, 

 94;* exposed culmen, 16.5; c tarsus, 30-31.5 (30.7);° middle toe, 

 23.5-24 (23.7) . c 



« See Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxi, 545, footnote. 

 & One specimen, 

 c Two specimens. 



