BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



477 



(151.6); tail, 76-89 (82.1); exposed culmen, 10.5-16.5 (13.4); tarsus, 

 30-36.5 (33.5); middle toe, 24-30 (27.5)." 



Adult female. — Forehead (extensively) sayal brown or mikado 

 brown; rest of upper parts olive-brown to nearly clove brown, faintly 

 glossed with greenish bronze, the superciliary and supra-auricular 

 regions tinged with color of forehead; chin and throat pale buff or dull 

 pale ochraceous-buff; foreneck and chest light olive-brown to dull 

 buffy brown, passing into buff, cinnamon-buff, or buffy cinnamon on 

 rest of under parts, usually more or less intermixed with pale grayish 

 brown or olive, especially on under tail-coverts, which sometimes 

 incline toward light rufous-cinnamon; length (skins), 230-277 (251); 

 wing, 143-159 (148.3); tail, 73.5-91 (82); exposed culmen, 12-15 

 (13.4); tarsus, 29.5-36 (32.9) ; middle toe, 24.5-30 (26.2). 6 



Central Lesser Antilles (Guadeloupe, Dominica, Martinique, Santa 

 Lucia, and St. Vincent). 



[Columba] martinica Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, i, 1766, 283 (Martinique; based 

 on Columba violacea martinicana Brisson, Orn., i, 129, pi. 12, fig. 1). — Gmelin, 

 Syst. Nat., i, pt. 2, 1789, 781.— Latham, Index Orn., ii, 1790, 595. 



Columba martinica Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., xxvi, 1818, 399. 



Goura martinica Stephens, Shaw's Gen. Zool., xi, 1819, 132, part. 



(?) Peristera martinica Selbt, Jardine's Naturalists' Libr., v, Pigeons, 1835, 209, 

 pi. 25 (West Indies). 



(?) Oreopeleia martinicana Reichenbach, Av. Syst. Nat., 1852, p. xxv. 



[Geotrygon] martinica Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 134. — Sharpe, 

 Hand-list, i, 1899, 87. — Forbes and Robinson, Bull. Liverp. Mus., ii, 1900, 

 145 (Fonds St. Jacques, Santa Lucia). 



° Seventeen specimens. 



6 Eleven specimens. 



Locality. 



Middle 

 toe. 



MALES. 



Three adult males from Guadeloupe . 

 Seven adult males from Dominica . . . 

 Two adult males from Martinique . . , 

 Four adult males from Santa Lucia. . 

 One adult male from St. Vincent 



FEMALES. 



Two adult females from Guadeloupe. 

 Five adult females from Dominica. . . 

 Two adult females from Martinique. . 

 Two adult females from Santa Lucia 

 Two adult females from St. Vincent. 



27.7 



27 



27.2 



27.9 



26 



26.2 



26.5 



27 



26 



24 



The type of Geotrygon martinica digressa Bangs, from Guadeloupe, is an excep- 

 tionally large specimen and unusually pale-braasted, though in the latter respect it is 

 exactly matched by one from Do mini ca. It is almost certainly an adult male (not 

 a female, as determined by the collector), and two other adult males from Guadeloupe 

 are in every respect similar to specimens from Martinique, Dominica, and other 

 islands. 



