BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 461 



Leptoptila rufinucha Sclatbr and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 162 ("Vera- 

 gua," i. e., Bugaba, Chiriqui, w. Panama; coll. Salvin and Godman). — 

 Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxi, 1893, 562 (Volcan de Chiriqui and 

 Boquete, Chiriqui, w. Panama). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., 

 Aves, iii, 1902, 264, pi. 68, fig. 2 (PozoAzulde Pirris, Las Trojas, Alajuela, 

 La Candelaria, Pozo Pital, Tambor, and Pirris, Costa Pica; Volcan de Chi- 

 riqui, Bugaba, and Divala, Panama). — Bangs, Auk, xxiv, 1907, 292 (Bo- 

 ruca and El Pozo, s. w. Costa Rica). 



[Leptoptila] rufinucha Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 134. — 

 Sharpb, Hand-list, i, 1899, 87. 



Leptotila rufinucha Carriker, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vi, 1910, 403 (Las Trojas, 

 Pigres, El General, Boruca, and Buenos Aires, s. w. Costa Rica; habits). 



Engyptila rufinucha Zblbd6n, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., viii, 1885, 112 (Costa Rica); 

 Anal. Mus. Nac. C. R., i, 1888, 127 (Pozo Azul, Las Trojas, and Alajuela, 

 Costa Rica).— Cherrie, Expl. Zool. Merid. C. R., 1893, 53 (Palmar, Lagarto, 

 Boruca, and Buenos Aires, s. w. Costa Rica). 



LEPTOTILA WELLSI (Lawrence). 



GRENADA DOVE. 



Adult female." — Forehead buffy vinaceous-white or very buffy pale 

 vinaceous-favm color, passing, through hght mouse gray on anterior 

 portion of crown, into dark hair brown or fuscous on occiput and 

 nape, this into lighter grayish brown or olive-brown on hindneck; 

 rest of upper parts plain brownish olive, faintly but distinctly glossed 

 with bronze-green, the alulae, primary coverts, and primaries more 

 decidedly brownish (less olivaceous); tail concolor with back, etc., 

 the lateral rectrices passing into dull black distally, the outermost 

 margined at tip with white; malar, suborbital, and auricular regions, 

 foreneck, and upper chest pinkish vinaceous-buff, the rest of under 

 parts (including chin and upper throat) white, passing into pale 

 pinkish buff laterally, the flanks suffused or intermixed with pale buffy 

 brown, the under tau-coverts tinged with pinkish buff, the outer webs of 

 lateral coverts edged with buffy brown; axulars and under wing- 

 coverts light cinnamon, the under surface of remiges similar, passing 

 into brown terminally; bill black; iris pale buff; legs and feet pale 

 (red in life?); wing, 124; tail, 82; exposed culmen, 16; tarsus, 32.5; 

 middle toe, 23.* 

 Island of Grenada, Lesser Antilles. 

 Engyptila wellsi Lawrence, Auk, i, April, 1884, 180 (Grenada; coll. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus.); Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., ix, 1887, 624 (Grenada; crit.). — Cory, Auk, iv," 

 1887, 111 (synonymy; descr.); Birds West Ind., 1889, 212; Cat. West Ind. 

 Birds, 1892, 10, 97, 134.— Wells, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., ix, 1886, 624; List 

 Birds Grenada, 1886, 7.— Clark (A. H.), Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xxxii, 1905, 

 262. 

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

 Leptoptila wellsi Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxi, 1893, 559 (Grenada). 

 [Leptoptila] wellsi Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 87. — Forbes and Robinson, Bull. 

 Liverp. Mus., it, 1900, 145. 



<» The adult male not seen. It is probably not materially if at all different in 

 coloration from the adult female. 

 6 One specimen (the type, and the only example seen). 



