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CoLrMBAE. 

 Columba goodsoni Hart. 



Columba goodsoni Hartert, BitU. B. 0. C. xii. 1902. ]). 42. (S. Javier, Pambilar 

 and Carondelet, N.W. Ecuador). 



c? ad. down and sides of head plumbeous gre_v, lightest on the forehead ; 

 hindneck pnrplish brown, with strong metallic reflexions; rest of uppersido deep 

 brown, with metallic reflexions, more reddish purple on the rump. Wings : remiges 

 slaty brown, inner webs, except on their tips, pale cinnamon, like the under wing- 

 coverts. Tail from above deep brown with a glossy purplish tinge and l)lackis]i 

 shafts, more rufous-browu from below. Chin and cheeks plumbeous grey ; fore- 

 neck, chest, and breast plumbeous grey, with a faint purplish wash ; abdomen more 

 or less strongly washed with purplish brown ; under tail-coverts vinaceous, more 

 or less tinged with chestnut ; sides of body under the wings with a strong cinnamon- 

 rufous wash. " Iris carmine (light carmine, carmine-reddish, red, yellow), feet 

 carmine, bill black. Wing ITio — Ifif! mm., tail about 110, metatarsus 10 — IT, bill 

 12—13. 



?. Like the adult male, but a little duller, njijievside a little more brownish, 

 under surface somewhat more uniform, the abdomen and under tail-coverts being 

 paler, more like the breast Wing \W — 151 mm., tail about lOo— ln.5, metatarsus 

 16— 17, bill 11 — 12. 



Juv. (Rio Japayo 23. i. 1002). Underside and wing-covorts with wide ferru- 

 ginous, almost cinnamon, edges to the feathers, and narrower ones to the feathers 

 of the upperside, under tail-coverts cinnamon. 



J/ab. Pambilar itype), S Javier, Carondelet, Rio Japayo, Cayapas River, 

 N.W. Ecuador. Collected by Sir. F. "W. Rosenberg's correspondents. Named after 

 Mr. Arthur Goodson, of the Tring Museum, whose knowledge oi i'oliimbidae. and 

 interest in ornithology is considerable. 



This excellent species seems, in N.W. Ecuador, to take the place of Columba 

 mgriroiftris of Central America, from which, however, it differs so materially that 

 I have not hesitated to describe it as a new species. 



Columba subvinacea berlepschi Hart. 



Columba Kiibviii(i/ra berlep^rhi Hart., Nov. ZooL. Ls08. p. rio4 (Paramba). 



More specimens have come to hand from Paramba, S. Javier, and Pambilar. 

 Tiiey liear ont fully the value of this subspecies, the wings ranging from 144 to 

 ISl mm. only. It tlins ranges from SoOO ft. to almost the sea-level. 



Columba plumbea bogotensis (Berl. & I^overk). 



Cliloroenas plnmbca Vieill. subsp. n. bogotcusis Berl. it Leverk., Ornis vi. 

 1889. p. 32 (Bogota coll., in Mus. Kiel). 



Two sjiecimens from Paramba, i and ?, ditter very considerably from typical 

 C. plumhra phimbea in being smaller, much more vinaceous (less greyish) on the 

 head and underside, in having vinaceous brown (not greyish plumbet)us) under taif- 

 coverts, darker back, more iridescent colours on the interscapulium, and much less 

 distinct vinaceous spots to the feathers of the hindneck. They seem to be the 



