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Cruz (San Andres Tuxtla), northern Chiapas, (Huehuetan; Teo- 

 pisca), northern Guatemala (Toyabaj, Quiche), and British Hon- 

 duras (near Manatee Lagoon) . 



Leptoptila albifrons (not of Bonaparte, 1854) Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., ix, 



1869, 207 (Merida, Yucatan).— Botjcard, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1883, 459 



(Yucatan; crit.; habits). 

 Peristera albifrons Nehrkorn, Journ. fur Orn., 1881, 69 (Yucatan; descr. eggs). 

 Leptoptila fulviventris Lawrence, Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci., ii, no. 9, May 29, 



1882, 287 (Yucatan; coll. State Univ. Kansas). — Boucard, Proc. Zool. Soc. 



Lond., 1883, 435 (crit.). — Reichenow and Schalow, Journ. fur Orn., 1883, 



407 (reprint of orig. descr.). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, 



iii, 1902, 259 (Buctzotz, Izamal, Tizimin, and Merida, Yucatan). 

 Engyptila fulviventris Lawrence, Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci., iv, 1885, 272 (crit.). 

 Leptotila fulviventris fulviventris Cole, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 1, Nov., 1906, 



118 (Chichen-Itza, Yucatan). — American Ornithologists' Union, Check 



List, 3d ed., 1910, 149 (extralimital). 

 [Leptotila] brachyptera sabBp. fulviventris Forbes and Robinson, Bull. Liverp. 



Mus., ii, 1900, 144. 

 Engyptila vinaceifulva Lawrence, Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci., iii, no. 9, Dec, 1885, 



270 (Temax, Yucatan; coll. G. N. Lawrence)."* 

 Leptoptila brachyptera Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxi, 1893, 545, part 



(Merida, Buctzotz, Tizimin, and Izamal, Yucatan; crit.). 

 Leptotila fulviventris brachyptera Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., viii, 1896, 



287 (Chichen-Itza, Yucatan). 



LEPTOTILA FULVIVENTRIS BRACHYPTERA (Salvadori). 



BENNETT'S DOVE. 



Similar to L. f. fulviventris, but coloration less buffy below (often 

 with little if any buff), the under tail-coverts nearly (sometimes 

 quite) pure white; forehead less vinaceous (more grayish), neck and 

 chest usually less vinaceous. 6 



» The type is an albinistic specimen of L.f. fulviventris. 



6 There is much variation in all these characters in a large series of specimens, 

 and it is not unlikely that a further subdivision of the species may be required. 

 The dullest-colored specimens — that is; those with least vinaceous tinge to neck 

 and chest and with forehead distinctly grayish — are those from southern Texas, 

 Nuevo Leon, and northern Tamaulipas; those from the western parts of Mexico as 

 far south as Oaxaca and in western Chiapas being, on the average, intermediate in 

 coloration between* - the Rio Grande specimens and L. f. fulviventris from Yucatan, 

 etc. Specimens from Nicaragua are about the most vinaceous ones in the entire 

 series, quite as much so as the most brightly colored birds from Yucatan, and have 

 the upper parts decidedly browner than in a great majority of more northern examples, 

 but differ from L.f. fulviventris in much whiter posterior under parts. The series of 

 specimens from Nicaragua is, however, much too small to warrant separation on their 

 evidence alone. 



