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part of tail feathers only very faintly tinged with blackish. Differs 

 from C. rufina rufina in having the lower abdomen and under tail coverts 

 slate gray, nearly as in sylvestris. 



Wing, 171; tail, 114; tarsus, 22; bill, 15 mm. 



Columba rufina tobagensis subsp. nov. 



Type from Tobago Island. Adult male, No. 47127, Field Museum 

 of Natural History. Collected by W. W. Brown, May 10, 1882. 



Nearest to C. r. palUdicrissa Chubb from Central America, but hav- 

 ing the abdomen more extensively whitish and the under tail coverts 

 purer white; back deeper vinaceous chestnut rufous, and forehead and 

 greater portion of the crown like the back. 



Wing, 190; tail, 128; tarsus, 20 mm. 



So far as I have been able to learn, this bird has never received a 

 name, and yet it is quite different from birds which I have examined 

 from Venezuela and British Guiana. 



Columba plumbea propinqua subsp. nov. 



Type from Moyobamba, Peru. Adult male, No. 44068, Field 

 Museum of Natural History. Collected by W. H. Osgood and M. P. 

 Anderson, July 20, 1912. 



Similar to C. plumbea plumbea of Brazil, with uniform colored 

 primaries, but under parts somewhat more vinaceous, the bill shorter 

 and heavier and the wings longer. From C. p. pallescens it differs in 

 having the under parts darker, bill larger and the purplish vinaceous 

 coloration on the region of the nape darker and less extensive. From 

 bogotensis of Berlepsch & Leverkiihn it may be distinguished at a glance 

 in lacking the cinnamon rufous tinge on the under wing coverts, the 

 uniform primaries and absence of any cinnamon rufous on under tail 

 coverts, more olive back and wings, etc., etc. 



Wing, 180; tail, 152; tarsus, 24; bill, 16 mm. 



Columba subvinacea zulias subsp. nov. 



Type from Orope, Zulia, Venezuela. Adult male, No. 34473, Field 

 Museum of Natural History. Collected by N. Dearborn, March 2, 

 1908. 



Similar to C. s. berlepschi but larger; lower back and wing coverts 

 much less purplish than in berlepschi, and browner ; with a more purplish 

 tinge and with less of an olive tinge than in purpureotincta. 



Wing, 164; tail, 127; bill, 13 mm. 



