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BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



color, the scutella carmine or lake red; length (skins), 273-311 (28' 

 wing, 150-159 (153.7) ; tail, 91-102 (95.4) ; exposed culmen, 14.5-1J 

 (16.7); tarsus, 27.5-29.5 (28.8); middle toe, 23-25.5 (23.8).° 



Adult female. — Similar to the adult male but reddish brown si 

 malar stripe somewhat duller or less intense, middle and greai 

 wing-coverts, posterior scapulars, and edges of rectrices grayish brov 

 and color of under parts somewhat darker, especially on che 

 length (skins), 270-299 (280); wing, 150.5-159.5 (153.8); tail, 89. 

 103 (95.2) ; exposed culmen, 15-17.5 (16.3) ; tarsus, 27-30.5 (28.J 

 middle toe, 21-23.5 (22.7) ? 



Young. — Very different in coloration from adults. Above rufoi 

 cinnamon or pecan brown, the scapulars, interscapulars, and wii 

 coverts narrowly tipped or terminally margined with cinnamon-bu 

 the pileum and hindneck duller (more brownish) with indistin 

 very narrow lighter tips to the feathers, the forehead light grayi 

 brown; a dull white malar-subocular stripe, as in adults; forene 

 and chest grayish brown or drab, the feathers margined with d 

 cinnamon; rest of under parts mostly pale grayish buffy. 



Bahamas (Great Bahama, Eleuthera, and New Providence island 

 Cuba (Guama; Guantanamo; Holguln; Manatel; San Diego de ] 

 Bafios), Isle of Pines (Nueva Gerona; Paladito), and Haiti (Puei 

 Plata, Aguacate, Cuya, Cayo Levantado, and Samana Bay, San 

 Domingo); Jamaica?; Porto Rico?; occasional on Florida Keys (K 

 West; Sept. 15, 1889, Oct. 20, 1897, and Nov. 12, 1897). 



Colurnba montana (not of Linnaeus) Temminck, Cat. Syst., 1807, 144; Pig. 

 Gallia., i, 1813, 395, 492; Lea Pigeons, i, fam. trois., 1808-11, 10, pi. 4 

 Audubon, Orn. Biog., ii, 1834, 382, pi. 167; Synopsis, 1839, 192; Bi 

 Am., oct. ed., v, 1842, 14, pi. 282.— Nuttall, Man. Orn. U. S: and Ca 

 Land Birds, 2d ed., 1840, 756. 



Zenaida montana Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 41. 



Colurnba martinka (not of Linnaeus) Temminck, Les Pigeons, i, 1808-11, 12, j. 

 5, 6 ("Porto Rico "); Hist. Nat. Pig. et Gallin., i, 1813, 400 ("Porto Bico ") 

 Bryant, Proc. Boat. Soc. N. H., xi, 1866, 96 (Santo Domingo). 



