COLUMBA. 237 
This species, according to Count Salvadori, belongs to a section of the genus Columba 
in which the upper wing-coverts are unspotted and the feathers of the nape have no 
dark margins; the head and neck are not uniformly vinaceous, as in C. Jtavirostris, and 
there is a metallic-bronze patch on the occiput and the back of the upper part of the 
neck. These are the chief characters which distinguish C. rufina from the other 
Pigeons of Central America. 
Salvin first met with C. rufina in Guatemala in December, 1858, on the Rio Dulce, 
and at that time this was the most northern habitat recorded for it. Since then 
specimens have been obtained at San Pedro in Honduras, and in various other localities 
in Central America as given above. On the Volcano of Miravalles Mr. Underwood 
found it to be one of the most abundant Pigeons of the district. Bridges met with 
the species in the dense forests of the “ Boquete,” on the slope of the Volcano of 
Chiriqui, and it was also found by Mr. Brown in the low-lying districts bordering 
the Pacific. 
6. Columba fasciata. 
Columba fasciata, Say, in Long’s Exp. ii. p. 10 (1823)*; Scl. P. Z. S. 1859, p. 3697; Scl. & Salv. 
Ibis, 1860, p. 276°; Baird, Brewer; & Ridgw. N. Am. Birds, iii. p. 360‘; Lawr. Mem. 
Bost. Soc. N. H. ii. p. 804°; Herrera, An. Mus. Nac. Mex. i. p. 104°; Sumichrast, La 
Nat. v. p. 231"; Ferrari-Perez, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. ix. p. 174°; Salv. & Godm. Ibis, 1892, 
p. 828°; Bendire, Life Hist. N. Am. Birds, p. 1227°; Jouy, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. xvi. 
p. 789"; A. O. U. Check-l. N. Amer. Birds, 2nd ed. p. 119”; Salvad. Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. 
«XXL. p. 291. 
Chiorenas fasciata, Scl. P. Z. S. 1856, p. 309; 1858, p. 305'°; Sumichrast, Mem. Bost. Soc. 
N. H. i. p. 562°; Dugés, La Nat. i. p. 1417. 
Columba monilis, Vigors, Zool. Beechey’s Voy. p. 26, t. 10". 
Supra griseo-fusca, uropygio et tectricibus supracaudalibus cinereo-plumbeis, cervice postica sneo micante, 
semitorque cervicali postico albo ; capite summo, nucha et corpore subtus vinaceis, gula et capitis lateribus 
magis cinereis ; abdomine medio et tectricibus subcaudalibus albicantioribus, hypochondriis cinereis ; alis 
fuscis, secundariis vix albido marginatis, tectricibus minoribus dorso, tectricibus majoribus uropygio 
concoloribus ; caude dimidio proximo cinereo-plumbeo, fascia transversa mediana nigra, dimidio distali 
pallide cinereo : rostro flavo, apice nigro ; pedibus carneis. Long. tota circa 15:0, ale 8-3, caudew 6-0, rostri 
a rictu 1:0, tarsi 0°95. (Descr. exempl. ex Jalapa, Mexico. Mus, nostr.) 
@ mari similis. 
Av, juv. colorem postcervicalem eneum atque semitorquem postcervicalem album caret. 
Hab. North America, Western States from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific coast, 
north to Washington and British Columbia !2W—Mexico, Sonora (Jferrera®), 
Nogales (Jouy!!), Nuevo Leon, Guanajuato (Herrera®, Dugés 7), Mazatlan 
(Grayson °), Sierra de San Luis Potosi, Sierra de Jerez, Tepic, Sierra de Bolafos, 
Sierra Nevada de Colima (Richardson 13), Sierra Madre !° to the Sierra de Colima 
(Lloyd !°), Alpine region of Vera Cruz (Sumichrast 1°), Jalapa (de Oca? 13), Las 
Vigas, Puebla, San Miguel Molino (Ferrari-Perez® 1%), Oaxaca (Boucard 1), 
Cordova (Sallé'*); GuatTemana, Coban ? 18, Volcan de Fuego? }3 (0. 8. & F. D. G.) 
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