Oberholsei — Mutanda Orniihologica. III. 49 



the bird should stand, therefore, as Gymndpelia cecilioe (Lesson). The 

 Oolumba monticola of Tschudi* is possihly of equal or earlier date, but is 

 rendered useless in any case because of the prior Columba monticola Vieil- 

 lot,J a synonym of Columba squamosa Bonnaterre. 



The name Columba avals Lesson has by some authors been employed 

 for this species, and has sometimes been dated from the Echo du Monde 

 Savant, XII, 1845, p. 8; but it was really first published in 1847, § two 

 years later than Columba cecilioe Lesson. 



•Fauna Peruana, Ornith., 1845-1846, pp. 45. 276 (Cordillera, Peru) (nom. nov. pro 

 Columba erythrothorax Meyen). 



t N'duv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., XXVI, 1818, p. 355 (Santo Domingo), 

 t Compl. Oeuv. Buffon, XX, 1847, p. 210. 



