954 PERISTERIDZA. 
nigricante, rectrice externa utrinque in pogonio externo apicem versus cinnamomeo limbata : rostro fusco ; 
pedibus carneis. Long. tota circa 7:0, ale 3:4, caude 2°55, rostri a rictu 0°55, tarsi 0°65. 
2. Fusco-brunnea, capite cinerascentiore, alis sicut in mare maculatis, remigibus extrorsum nigro limbatis : 
subtus pallidior, gula et abdomine sordide albicantibus, rectrice extima utrinque versus apicem albo 
marginata ; subalaribus nigris. (Descr. maris et femine ex Retalhuleu, Guatemala. Mus. nostr.) 
Hab. Mexico, Los Rables.and Escuinapa in Sinaloa (Simons **), Santiago, Tepic, Tonala, 
Chiapas (Richardson 21), Acapulco, Tierra Colorada, Atoyac, ‘Teapa (Mrs. H. H. 
Smith 21), Potrero, Omealca, Vera Cruz (Sumichrast °°), Huatusco (Lerrari-Perez war 
Playa Vicente (Trujillo 24), Jalapa (De Oca), Putla (Rébouch *1), Merida (Schott *), 
Tekanto (Stone & Baker®'), Chichén-ltzi (Chapman?*), Izalam”', Buctzotz 24, 
Peto 2!, Cozumel I. 15, Yucatan }9(Gauwmer); Brirish Honpuras (Blancaneaur a 
Guatema.a, Retalhuleu (Richardson 21), Duefias, Paraiso, Pacific coast (O. S. 24), 
Peten (Leyland ®); Satvavor, La Libertad (Richardsou 7!) ; Hoxvuras, Comayagua 
(Taylor ®®), San Pedro (Whitely?, Leyland ?), Vruxillo (Townsend °°); Nicaragua, 
Chinandega, Matagalpa (Richardson?!); Costa Rica (Endres*'), San Jose 
(Carmiol41), Las Trojas (Zeledon?*), Orosi (v. Frantzius 1°), Puntarenas 
(Boucard 38), La Palma, Gulf of Nicoya (Nutting **) ; Panama °°, David (Hicks 3° 18), 
Chitra 14, Calobre 14, Bugaba !4, Mina de Chorcha 14, Chepo #! (Arcé?!), Lion Hill 
(M‘Leannan?1); Divala 298°, San Miguel in the Pearl Is.*! (Brown), Punta de 
Sabana (Festa 2). 
‘This species belongs to a different section of the genus Chamepelia, having 
the sides of the tarsus feathered; it is further distinguished from C. minuta by the 
black bar on the under surface of the wing, and by other well-marked differences in 
plumage. 
In Central America this Ground-Dove is very common, though it appears less 
frequent in Honduras, and it is not very numerously represented in our Mexican series. 
Mr. Bangs has recently separated the bird from Sinaloa as a pale race of C. rufipennis, 
which he calls . rufipennis eluta. Our Mexican specimens cannot be separated from 
those from other countries, and dark and light individuals are found everywhere. 
Climate has, perhaps, something to do with this difference in colour, and birds from 
Panama are somewhat dark, but these can be matched by others from Cozumel and 
the mainland of Mexico. Many of the paler specimens appear to be bleached, the 
newly moulted individuals being always the darkest. 
We know nothing of the habits of this species, but. doubtless they are similar to 
those of other Ground-Doves. 
PERISTERA. 
Peristera, Swains. (nec Rafin.), Zool. Journ. iii. p. 360 (1827); Salvad. Cat. Birds Brit. Mus, xxi. 
p. 491 (1893). 
Claravis, Oberholser, Pr. Acad. Philad. 1899, p. 203. 
