458 bulletin: 50, united states national museum. 



Rio Indio near Gatun; Cerro Azul at 1,000 ft.; Lion Hill), and adja- 

 cent portion of northern Colombia (Turbo; Rio Truando). 



Leptoptila verreauxi (not of Bonaparte) Cassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., I860, 

 175 (Turbo and Rio Truando, Colombia). — Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., 

 vii, 1862, 333 (Rio Truando). 



Leptoptila cassini Lawrence, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1867, 94 (line of Panama 

 R. R., coll. G. N. Lawrence).— Newton, Ibis, 1868, 230 (crit.).— Salvin, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1870, 217 (Bugaba and Volcan de Chiriqui, w. 

 Panama). — Rowley, Orn. Misc., iii, pt. xii, 1878, 79, pi. 93 (nest and eggs). — 

 Salvadohi, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxi, 1893, 560, part (Lion Hill; Montana 

 del Vermejo, Veragua, Panama). — Bangs, Proc. New Engl. Zool. Club, ii, 

 1900, 15 (Lomadel Leon, Panama). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., 

 Aves, iii, 1902, 262, part, pi. 68, fig. 1 (Montana de Vermejo, Lion Hill, and 

 Laguna del Pita, Panama; Turbo and Rio Truando, n. w. Colombia). 



L\eptoptild] cassini Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1868, 60. 



[Leptoptila] cassini Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 243, no. 9387. — Sclater and Salvin, 

 Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 134, part— Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 87, part.— 

 Forbes and Robinson, Bull. Liverp. Mus., ii, 1900 (Panama). 



L[eptoptila] cassini cassini Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. , xxii, March 10, 1909, 30, 

 in text. 



LEPTOTILA CASSINI CERVINIVENTRIS (Sclater and Salvin). 



VINACEOtTS-BREASTED DOVE. 



Similar to L. c. cassini but coloration decidedly darker throughout, 

 the neck and chest less purely gray, under parts browner laterally, 

 breast, etc., more strongly (and usually more extensively) vinaceous 

 fawn color, and upper parts browner (the occiput and nape olive-brown 

 to nearly natal brown) ; dark phase distinguished from that of L. e. 

 cassini, by more deeply or extensively vinaceous fawn colored breast. 



Adult male.— Length (skins), 239-271 (253); wing, 126-139 (132.2); 

 tail, 77-96 (86.7) ; exposed culmen, 13.5-16 (15), tarsus, 29-34 (31.2); 

 middle toe, 22.5-26 (24.2).° 



Adult female. — Length (skins), 231-269 (248); wing, 124.5-138 

 (130.8); tail, 72-99 (84.5); exposed culmen, 13.5-16.5 (15.1); tarsus, 

 29-32 (31); middle toe, 22-25 (23.8). 6 



