234 COLUMBIDA. 
Escondido (Richmond*); Costa Rica, Buenos Aires (Underwood, in litt.); 
Payama!®, Lion Hill Station (M*Zeannan®), Volcan de Chiriqui®, Bugaba 
(Arcé**), Boquete (Brown’).—Soutnh America generally, from Colombia to 
Guiana, Amazonia, Brazil, and Peru®. 
Like C. leucocephala, this species belongs to a section of the genus in which the 
feathers of the nape show prominent dark markings, but in C. speciosa there is a 
complete circle, giving the neck a scaly appearance. 
This Pigeon has a wide distribution in South America, and is found in most of the 
Central-American States. It doubtless breeds throughout its range, as Mr. Richmond 
records the capture of a young bird in first plumage on the Escondido River, and near 
Peten Leyland found it domesticated and very tame. 
8. Columba flavirostris. 
Columba flavirostris, Wagl. Isis, 1831, p. 519'; Baird, Mex. Bound. Surv., Birds, p. 21, t. 83’; 
Scl. P. Z. S. 1859, pp. 369°, 8914; 1864, p. 178°; Taylor, Ibis, 1860, p. 226°; Dresser, 
Ibis, 1866, p. 237; Lawr. Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. ii. p. 304°; Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. no. 4, 
p. 44°; Sumichr. La Nat. v. p. 231"; Salv. P. ZS. 1883, p. 428" ; Boucard, P. Z. 8. 
1888, p. 458”; Zeledon, An. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, 1887, p. 127**; Stone, Pr. Ac. Phil. 
1890, p. 204"; Bendire, Life Hist. N. Amer. Birds, p. 128 °; A. O. U. Check-l. N. Am. 
Birds, 2nd ed. p. 120°; Chapman, Bull. Amer. Mus. N. H. viii. p. 287 s Salvad. Cat. 
Birds Brit. Mus. xxi. p. 285 ™. 
Chiorenas flavirostris, Scl. P. Z. 8. 1856, p. 8309”; Salv. Ibis, 1861, p. 355; Lawr. Ann. Lyc. 
N. Y. ix. p. 184"; v. Frantz. J. £. Ora. 1869, p. 370”. 
Columba erythrina, Licht. Nomencl. Mus. Berol. p. 81”; Ridgw. Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. iii. p. 9%; 
' Nutting, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. vi. p. 895”. 
Supra griseo-fusca, dorso imo et uropygio schistaceis; capite, cervice, pectore et abdomine summo vinaceo- 
castaneis; mento albido; tectricibus alarum majoribus, abdomine imo, tectricibus subcaudalibus et 
hypochondriis schistaceis ; tectricibus alarum minoribus castaneis haud vinaceo tinctis ; remigibus fuscis, 
stricte albo limbatis; cauda tota nigricanti-plumbea: rostro et pedibus carneo-rubris. Long. tota 
circa 13:0, ale 7:8, caude 5:0, rostri a rictu 1-0, tarsi 10. (Descr.. maris ex Salina Cruz, Mexico. 
Mus. nostr.) 
9 mari similis. 
Hab. Norra America, southern border of the United States from Arizona and the Rio 
Grande Valley 16. — Mexico (Wagler+), Matamoros (Dresser), Nuevo Leon, Las 
Escobas, Santa Ingracia, Los Trevifios, Villa Grande, Monte Morelos (Armstrong 18), 
Aldama, Tampico, Tamaulipas, Santiago, San Blas, Tepic, Salina Cruz, Tehuan- 
tepec (Richardson'®), Sierra de Alamos, Sonora, El Toro, Sinaloa (Lloyd 8), 
Mazatlan (Xantus 1°, Grayson ®®), Presidio (Forrer 18), Sierra Madre (Aantus ® 9), 
Acapulco (Markham "), Valley of Mexico (White®), Jalapa (de Oca*), Vega del 
Cazadero, Vera Cruz (Zrujillo 18), Misantla (Ff. D. G.18), Atoyac, Vera Cruz 
(Mrs. H. H. Smith'8), Cordova (Sallé', Sumichrast*), San Lorenzo near 
Cordova !8, Rio Rancho Nuevo, Plan del Rio, Hacienda de Tortugas, Alvarado 
(Ferrari-Perez), Orizaba, Potrero, Tapana, Santa Efigenia, Tonala, Gineta Mts., 
