Gray-headed Dove

Here the details of the Gray-headed Dove named bird below:

SCI Name:  Leptotila plumbeiceps
Protonym:  Leptotila plumbeiceps Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt1 p.59
Taxonomy:  Columbiformes / Columbidae / Leptotila
Taxonomy Code:  gyhdov1
Type Locality:  [Choctum] Vera Paz, Guatemala.
Author:  Sclater & Salvin
Publish Year:  1868
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

LEPTOTILA
(Columbidae; Ϯ Caribbean Dove L. jamaicensis) Gr. λεπτος leptos  slender; πτιλον ptilon  feather; "Leptotila, Sw. (fig. 299.b, c. 300.b)  First quill suddenly narrowed; the fourth longest.  Tarsus lengthened, and much longer than the hallux.  All the toes long and slender.  Knees naked.  America only?   P. rufaxilla.  Nat. Lib. v. pl. 24." (Swainson 1837); "Leptotila Swainson, Classif. Bds., 2, 1837, p. 349. Type, by monotypy, P. rufaxilla Nat. Libr., 5, pl. 24 = Peristera rufaxilla Selby (not of Richard and Bernard) = Columba jamaicensis Linné." (Peters 1937, III, 122).   
Var. Leoptotila, Leptoptila, Leptophila.   
Synon. Aechmoptila, Engyptila, Homoptila.

plumbeiceps
L. plumbeus  plumbeous  < plumbum  lead; -ceps  -headed  < caput, capitis  head.
● ex “Tachurí cabeza de plomo” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 169, and Muscicapa gularis Temminck, 1822 (Todirostrum).

SUBSPECIES

Gray-headed Dove (Gray-headed)
SCI Name: Leptotila plumbeiceps plumbeiceps/notia
LEPTOTILA
(Columbidae; Ϯ Caribbean Dove L. jamaicensis) Gr. λεπτος leptos  slender; πτιλον ptilon  feather; "Leptotila, Sw. (fig. 299.b, c. 300.b)  First quill suddenly narrowed; the fourth longest.  Tarsus lengthened, and much longer than the hallux.  All the toes long and slender.  Knees naked.  America only?   P. rufaxilla.  Nat. Lib. v. pl. 24." (Swainson 1837); "Leptotila Swainson, Classif. Bds., 2, 1837, p. 349. Type, by monotypy, P. rufaxilla Nat. Libr., 5, pl. 24 = Peristera rufaxilla Selby (not of Richard and Bernard) = Columba jamaicensis Linné." (Peters 1937, III, 122).   
Var. Leoptotila, Leptoptila, Leptophila.   
Synon. Aechmoptila, Engyptila, Homoptila.

Gray-headed Dove (Brown-backed)
SCI Name: Leptotila plumbeiceps battyi/malae
LEPTOTILA
(Columbidae; Ϯ Caribbean Dove L. jamaicensis) Gr. λεπτος leptos  slender; πτιλον ptilon  feather; "Leptotila, Sw. (fig. 299.b, c. 300.b)  First quill suddenly narrowed; the fourth longest.  Tarsus lengthened, and much longer than the hallux.  All the toes long and slender.  Knees naked.  America only?   P. rufaxilla.  Nat. Lib. v. pl. 24." (Swainson 1837); "Leptotila Swainson, Classif. Bds., 2, 1837, p. 349. Type, by monotypy, P. rufaxilla Nat. Libr., 5, pl. 24 = Peristera rufaxilla Selby (not of Richard and Bernard) = Columba jamaicensis Linné." (Peters 1937, III, 122).   
Var. Leoptotila, Leptoptila, Leptophila.   
Synon. Aechmoptila, Engyptila, Homoptila.