BIKDS OP NORTH AND MIDDLE AMEBICA. 475 



Adultfemale. — Similar to the adult male, and apparently not always 

 distinguishable, but usually (?) with coloration slightly duller; length 

 (skin), 275; wing, (defective); tail, (defective); exposed culmen, 19; 

 tarsus, 31; middle toe, 25.° 



Lesser Antilles (Barbuda 6 ; Antigua; Montserrat 6 ; Guadeloupe; 

 Grand Terre 6 ; Dominica; Martinique; Santa Lucia) and Culebra and 

 St. Croix of Greater Antilles. 



Columba mystacea Temminck:, Les Pigeons, i, fam. seconde, 1808-11, 124, pi. 56 

 ("America"; coll. Leyden Mus.); Hist. Nat., Pig. et Gallin., i, 1813, 275 — 

 Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., xxvi, 1818, 355.— Shaw, Gen. Zool., 

 xi, 1819, 56.— Lesson, Compl. Buffon, Ois., viii, 1837, 62; 2d ed., 1838, 

 286.— Gulliver, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1844, 10 (blood-corpuscles); 1875, 

 489 (blood-corpuscles). — Bubmeister, Syst. Ueb. Th. Bras., ii, 1856, 307. 



Col[umba] mystacea Heaene, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1834, 110 (" Port au Prince, 

 Haiti"). 



C[olumba] mystacea Temminck, Hist. Nat. Pig. et Gallin., i, 1813, 473 ("America 

 australi"). 



Col[umba] mystacea Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., xl, 1855, 40 (Santa Lucia; 

 crit.). 



P[eristera] mystacea Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1845, 476. — Reichenbach, Syn. Av. 

 Novit., Columbariae, 1851, pi. 2576, fig. 3387 (err. lege 3382). 



\Geotrygori\mystacea Bonapaete, Compt. Rend., xl, 1855, 100, part (Santa Lucia), 

 220; xliii, 1856, 943; Consp. Av., ii, 1857, 71 (Santa Lucia; "Bogota").— 

 Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 243, no. 9394. — Sclater and Salvtn, Nom. Av. 

 Neotr., 1873, 134.— Cory, List Birds West Ind., rev. ed., 1886, 24 (Guade- 

 loupe; Santa Lucia). — Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 88. — Forbes and Robin- 

 son, Bull. Liverp. Mus., ii, 1900, 146. 



Geotrygon mystacea Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1855, 163 ("Santa Fe de 

 Bogota"); 1871, 267 (Santa Lucia); 1879, 765 (Montserrat).— Lawrence, 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 1879, 460 (Guadeloupe), 487 (Guadeloupe).— Allen, 

 Bull. Nutt. Om. Club, v, 1880, 169 (Santa Lucia).— Cory, Ibis, 1886, 475 

 (Grand Terre); Auk, iv, 1887, 96 (Martinique), 117 (synonymy; descr.; 

 range); viii, 1891, 47 (Antigua), 48 (St. Croix); Birds West Ind., 1889, 218; 

 Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 10, 97 (Barbuda; Antigua; Montserrat; Guade- 

 loupe; Grand Terre; Dominica; Martinique; Santa Lucia). — Salvadoei, 

 Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxi, 1893, 572 (Guadeloupe; Montserrat). — Veeeill 

 (G. E.), Trans. Conn. Ac. Arts and Sci., viii, 1892, 325 (Dominica; habits).— 

 Claek (A. H.), West Ind. Bull., xi, no. 3, 1911, 183 (Santa Lucia). 



0[reopeleia] mystacea Reichenbach, Vollst. Naturg., Columbariae, i, 1861, 32, 

 part, pi. 2576, fig. 3382 (Santa Lucia; "Santa Fe de Bajota"). 



Starnoenas -mystacea Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, iv, no. 35 (Columbae), 1873, 164 

 ("St. Dominique"; type of Columba mystacea Temminck). 



Oeoirygon sp. inc. Grisdale, Ibis, 1882, 492 (Montserrat; habits). 



° One specimen. 



6 Specimens from these islands not seen by me. 



