[104] Columba inornata, Vigors, Pr. Zoöl. Soc. 1847, 37.—De la Sagra, Voy. l’Ile de Cuba, Ois. t. 28.—Cab. J. IV, 106 (Cuba).—Scl. P. Z. S. 1861, 80.—Reichenb. Handb. 62, tab. 222, f. 2582.—Gundl. Repert. Cub. I, 1866, 298.—March, P. A. N. S. 1863, 301 (Jamaica). C. rufina, Gosse, B. Jam. (not C. rufina of Temminck!).
[105] Columba solitaria, McCall, Pr. A. N. Sc. Phila. III, July, 1847, 233. “Length, 13 inches 9 lines, etc. Alar extent, 23 inches. Wing, from the flexure, 7 inches 5 lines. Tarsus, 1 inch; middle toe, 1 inch 2 lines; first toe, 9 lines, and longer than the third; nails light flesh-color; feet and legs deep red. Iris dark orange. Bill above, 1 inch 1 line, but feathered to within 5 lines of the tip; reddish near the base, whitish near the tip. Head chocolate-blue. Throat chocolate-white. Neck and breast bluish-chocolate with brilliant reflections. Back, belly, flanks, under wing-coverts, and greater exterior wing-coverts, light red color, the last faintly bordered with white. Lesser wing-coverts chocolate-red, forming a bright shoulder-spot of elliptical shape. Quill-feathers dusky, tinged with lead-color on the outer vanes. Third primary longest. Upper and under tail-coverts bluish lead-color. Tail, 5 inches, slightly rounded, of twelve feathers; dusky.”
[106] Zenaida hypoleuca, “Gray,” Bonap. Consp. II, 1857, 83.
[107] Zenaidura yucatanensis, Lawr. Ann. N. Y. IX, 1869. This bird is so exactly intermediate between the Z. carolinensis and Zenaida amabilis, as to lead us to strongly suspect it is a hybrid between the two. With the Z. carolinensis it agrees only in possessing fourteen tail-feathers; the coloration and size and shape of the bill being exactly those of Z. amabilis, while the tail-feathers are intermediate in length and shape between those of the two species. The colors differ from those of Z. amabilis only in being of a just appreciably lighter shade, there being the same broad white tip to the secondaries, brilliant steel-blue sub-auricular spot, and deep reddish crissum, characterizing the Z. amabilis, as distinguished from Z. carolinensis.
[108] Zenaidura graysoni, Lawr. Ann. N. Y. Lyc. February, 1871, 17. A very distinct species, remarkable for its large, very long, and much depressed bill, and deep ferruginous, instead of pinkish-vinaceous, lower parts. The specimens are unfortunately all young birds, though they are fully grown.
[109] Scardafella squamosa. Columba squamosa, Temm. Pig. et Gal. I, 59. A specimen of this species from Venezuela has the black bars everywhere twice as broad as in Brazilian examples.
[110] Chamæpelia griseola, Spix, Av. Bras. t. 75, a, f. 2.—Reinh. Vid. Med. Nat. For. 1870, 56 (Brazil).
[111] Oreopeleia montana. Columba montana, Linn. S. N. 1758.
[112] Messrs. Sclater and Salvin distinguish the allied species as follows:—
O. poliocephala, Wagler. Brownish-olive; the head plumbeous, lighter beneath; the feathers of the throat darker, and marked with gray; middle of belly milky-white; the flanks and crissum tinged with rufous; tail bronzed-green, the five lateral feathers broadly tipped with buff. Length, 24.00; wing, 10.50; tail, 11.50; tarsus, 3.20. Hab. Table-land of Mexico to west coast (Manzanillo, etc.).