The Key to Scientific Names
Edited by James A. Jobling
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- Leucoenas
(Columbidae; syn. Columba † Silvery Pigeon C. argentina) Gr. λευκος leukos white; οινας oinas, οιναδος oinados pigeon; "Key to the Species*. a. General plumage not uniform. a1. General plumage white-grey; apical half of the tail black (Leucœnas) . . . . . .grisea, p. 248." (Salvadori 1893); "Leucoenas Salvadori, 1893, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XXI, p. 242. Type, by monotypy, Carpophaga grisea G. Gray, 1844 (nom. nud.) = Myristicivora grisea Bonaparte, 1855 (not Columba grisea Meuschen, 1787, nor Columba grisea Bonnaterre, 1791) = Columba argentina Bonaparte, 1855." (JAJ 2021).
Var. Leucaenas.
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