118 bulletin: museum of comparative zoology. 



The lower part of the crop of the mother of the youug bird was hypertrophied, 

 and exuded the secretion known as " pigeon's milk." 



Iris of males, yellow. 



Mr. Millspaugh reports that the craw of the mother bird contained " 200 

 seeds representing four unknown species of the euphorbiaceous genus Croton.''^ 

 With regard to the two males taken on April 3d, he says ; " One of the craws 

 contained two large and fully ripe fruits of some cultivated species of Day lily 

 {Grinum). These fruits must have been about 1^ inches in diameter, and 

 were completely filled with a multitude of ripe, bony seeds. There were also 

 found under this number: 4Q seeds Tragia nepetaefolia ; 8 seeds Cro^ow species ; 

 2 minute seeds of some scrophulariaceous plant; 43 seeds Groton Jlavens ; 14 

 seeds Groton albidus ; 1 seed Groton species ; 2 seeds representing two unknown 

 species." 



11. Claravis pretiosa (Ferrari-Perez). 



Two specimens : 



a. (J, Chichen-Itza, 189-, E. H. Thompson (Pablo-Perera). 



b. Chichen-Itza, 189- E. H. Thompson. 



12. * Leptotila fulviventris fulviventris Lawrence. 



Leptotila fulviventris brachyptera (Salvad.). Cliapinan, Bull. Amer. Mas. Nat. 

 Hist., 1896, 8, p. 287. 



Leptotila fulviventris (not brachyptera) Laur. Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.- 

 Amer., 3, p. 259. 



White-fronted Dove. 

 Maya name, ou-oui. 

 Two specimens : 



a. 9 (0, March 5, 1904. 



b. Chichen-Itza, 189- E. H. Thompson. 



Contents of craw : " six bony nutlets of some unknown species, and 168 seeds 

 of some equally unknown euphorbiaceous plant." — Millspaugh. 

 Iris yellow ; bill black ; feet and legs red. 



PODICIPEDIDAE. 



13. Colymbus podiceps Linne. 

 Pied-billed Grebe. 



One specimen: $, Great Cenote, Chichen-Itza, Feb. 19, 1904. 



Stone (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1890, 1891, p. 202) saw several birds 

 which he supposed to belong to this species swimming in the aguada at Schkolak, 

 but obtained no specimens. 



CHARADRIIDAB. 



14. Aegialitis vocifera (Linne). 

 Kildeer. 



One was heard on February 22 ; saw and heard one March 7 ; heard one 



March 27. Mr. Thompson, Sr., told me that a short time before I came to 



