_Columba domestica [Greek: b] livia_ Gmelin, Syst. Nat., 1, pt. 2,
1789, p. 769. (No type locality = Europe.)
_Columba livia_ Bryan, Guam Rec., vol. 13, no. 2, 1936, p. 24
(Guam); Marshall, Condor, vol. 51, 1949, p. 221 (Tinian).
_Geographic range._--Europe and Asia Minor. Introduced to many
parts of the world. In Micronesia: Mariana Islands--Guam, Tinian.
_Remarks._--In 1945, the NAMRU2 party observed pigeons about the towns
on Guam, particularly at the town of Inarajan. Bryan (1936:24) writes
that the birds were introduced by the United States Navy and Marine
Corps at Guam; the stock originating from escaped carrier pigeons.
Marshall (1949:221) records this bird from Tinian.
=Ptilinopus porphyraceus ponapensis= (Finsch)