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had been fighting. As the dry season came on, these pigeons came 

 to drink at the arroyo near the village. I found palm seeds and figs 

 in the crops of those examined. 



Van Rossem 19 has restricted the type locality to the state of Vera- 

 cruz. 



COLUMBA NIGRIROSTRIS Sclater 



Columba niffiirostris P. L. Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Loudon, 1859 (Feb. 1860), 

 p. 390 (Oaxaca, Mexico). 



Carriker secured three of these pigeons on the Cerro de Tuxtla on 

 March 19 and May 7, the birds being rare. They were found also on 

 Volcan San Martin. They ranged in the tops of giant trees, so high 

 that one bird was so broken on striking the ground, after the long fall 

 from the perch on which it was killed, that it could not be skinned. 

 Attention was usually drawn to them by their strongly accented calls. 



ZENAIDURA MACROURA CAROLINENSIS (Linnaeus): Eastern Mourning Dove 



Columba carolinensis Linnaeus, Systema naturae, ed. 12, vol. 1, 1766, p. 286 

 (South Carolina). 



In 1940 Carriker did not record mourning doves until May 1, 

 when he saw several in riding from Tlacotalpam to Tres Zapotes. 

 The following day his native assistant shot three from a small flock 

 near Hueyapa, but only one was preserved as the birds were ex- 

 cessively fat. It appeared that these birds were on their northward 

 migration after having wintered in some other locality. 



The male preserved is a typical specimen of the eastern form. 



ZENAIDURA MACROURA MARGINELLA (Woodhouse) : Western Mourning Dove 



Ectopisles marf/incllus Woodhouse. Proc. 'Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 

 6, 1852, p. 104 (Cross Timbers, north fork of the Canadian River, Okla.). 



On March 11, 1939, I flushed two in a cornfield and killed an adult 

 male. No others were seen in the Tres Zapotes area. 



ZENAIDA ASIATICA ASIATICA (Linnaeus): Eastern White- winged Dove 



Columba a.siatica Linnaeus, Systema naturae, ed. 10, vol. 1, 1758, p. 163 

 (Jamaica). 



In the region known as Para Madera near Tres Zapotes, I saw 

 a flock of about 50 of these pigeons in flight on April 13. Carriker 

 shot one on the lower slopes of the Cerro de Tuxtla on May G, 1940. 



10 Trans. San Diego Soc. Xat. Hist., vol. 6, Aug. 30, 1930, p. 198. 



