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Yucatan (Silam; Izamal; Merida; Cozumel Island; Mugeres Island; 

 Holbox Island). 



Engyptila gawmeri La whence, Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci., ill, no. 5, Jan., 1885, 157 

 (Silam, Yucatan; coll. G. N. Lawrence).— Salvin, Ibis, 1885, 193 (crit.). 



Leptoptila gawmeri Salvadoei, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxi, 1893, 557 (n. Yucatan; 

 Cozumel, Mugeres, and Holbox Islands, Yucatan).— Salvin and Godman, 

 Biol. Oentr.-Am., Aves, iii, 1902, 261 (Silam, Izamal, and Merida, n. Yuca- 

 tan; Holbox, Mugeres, and Cozumel Islands). 



[Leptoptila] gawmeri Shabpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 86.— Forbes and Robinson, 

 Bull. Liverp. Mus., ii, 1900, 145 (Yucatan). 



Leptoptila jamaicensis (not Columba jamaicensis Linnseus) Sclateb, List. Vertebr. 

 Anim., 8th. ed., 1883, 457 (Cozumel Island, Yucatan). 



Engyptila jamaicensis Salvin, Ibis, 1885, 193 (Cozumel I.; crit.); 1889, 378 (Hol- 

 box, Mugeres, and Cozumel Islands; crit.); 1890, 91, part (Holbox, Mugeres, 

 and Cozumel Islands). 



LEPTOTILA VERREAUXI VERKEAUXI (Bonaparte). 



VERB-EAUX'S DOVE. 



Adult male. — Forehead pale grayish vinaceous to vinaceous-buff, 

 deepening into dull light brownish vinaceous to light, slightly vina- 

 ceous, fawn color on superciliary and supra-auricular regions, and 

 passing into a slightly more grayish hue on anterior portion of crown; 

 posterior part of crown and occiput varying from hair brown to 

 drab-brown, the hindneck similar but lighter, more or less brightly 

 glossed with metallic purple or purplish bronze, intermixed with 

 bronze-green or sometimes even bluish green on extreme lower por- 

 tion; rest of upper parts light grayish olive-brown to light sepia or 

 snuff brown (more rarely) , the alulse, primary coverts, and primaries 

 dusky grayish brown, the last narrowly edged distally with paler; 

 middle rectrices concolor with back, etc., or slightly paler and more 

 grayish, the others growing gradually darker and more grayish 

 toward the outer pair, which are. deep slate-gray or slate color basally, 

 passing into black subterminally and broadly tipped with white, the 

 succeeding three or four (on each side) also tipped with white, but 

 this decreasing in extent and more and more tinged with brownish 

 toward the middle pair; malar, suborbital, and auricular regions, 

 foreneck, sides of neck, and chest pale grayish vinaceous to nearly 

 light vinaceous-drab, the breast and sides paler and more pinkish, 

 fading into white or buffy white on abdomen and anal region, the 

 under tail-coverts nearly pure white (sometimes tinged with pale 

 cream-buff on outer webs of outermost coverts), the flanks more or 

 less tinged or suffused with light wood brown or brownish buff; axil- 

 lars, under wing-coverts, and under surface of remiges dull cinnamon- 

 rufous (pecan brown), the distal portion of remiges grayish brown; 

 bill black; iris straw yellow to orange or orange-red; bare orbital 

 space light blue (sky blue to cobalt blue) ; legs and feet purplish red; 

 length (skins), 235-295 (264); wing, 125-145 (134); tail, 91.5-109.5 



