444 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Adult female.— Length, (skins), 229-270 (249.5); wing (one speci- 

 men), 136.2; tail, 94-97.5 (95.7); exposed culmen, 16-17 (16.5); tar- 

 sus, 28-31 (29.5); middle toe, 22-24 (23).° 

 Island of Grand Cayman, south of Cuba. 

 Engyptila collaris Cory, Auk, iii, Oct., 1886, 498 (Grand Cayman I., south of 

 Cuba; coll. C. B. Cory); iv, 1887, 112; Birds West Ind., 1889, 213; Cat. West 

 Ind. Birds, 1892, 97, 129, 139. 

 Leptoptila collaris Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxi, 1893, 559, footnote.— 



Lowe, Ibis, 1911, 145 (Grand Cayman). 

 [Leptoptila] collaris Shaepe, Hand-list, i, 1899,- 87.— Forbes and Robinson, 

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



LEPTOTILA NEOXENA (Cory). 



ST. ANDREWS ISLAND DOVE. 



Similar to L. collaris but general color of upper parts lighter and 

 more grayish brown, and hindneck and sides of neck with ground 

 color less reddish brown and the metallic gloss less reddish purple, 

 chest rather deeper pale grayish vinaceous, and distal secondaries 

 distinctly edged with paler (except toward base); similar also to 

 L. gaumeri, but upper parts darker and decidedly browner, and color 

 of chest darker, more grayish. 



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

 or grayish white, passing into slate-gray on posterior portion of crown, 

 the occiput darker and glossed with metallic purple; hindneck and 

 sides of neck grayish brown, brightly glossed with metallic purple 

 (this extending to sides of chest), the lower hindneck glossed with 

 metallic bronze-green; back, scapulars, wing-coverts, proximal sec- 

 ondaries, rump, and upper tail-coverts clear olive-brown to grayish 

 olive 7 brown or brownish olive; alulae, primary coverts, primaries, and 

 distal secondaries dark grayish brown or fuscous, the secondaries and 

 primaries narrowly but distinctly edged distally with pale brownish 

 or dull whitish; middle rectrices grayish brown (nearly hair brown), 

 the other rectrices more grayish (dull slate color) basally, passing into 

 slate-blackish distally, and tipped with white, this about 9 mm. wide 

 (at widest part) on outermost rectrix, gradually becoming narrower 

 toward middle rectrices; malar and suborbital regions pale grayish 

 vinaceous, the auricular region similar but slightly darker; chin 

 and throat dull white or buffy white; foreneck, chest, and upper breast 

 dull pale grayish vinaceous; rest of under parts white, tinged with 

 pale pinkish buff on sides and flanks; axillars, under wing-coverts, 

 and under surface of remiges (except terminal portion of the last) 

 rufous-cinnamon or mikado brown; bill black; legs and feet pale 

 brownish (purplish red in life ?) . 



° Two specimens. 



