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Identification as interrupta is made after examination of only a few 

 specimens. Races in this small dove are uncertain, as there is much 

 individual variation. 



LEPTOTILA VERREAUXI FULVIVENTRIS Lawrence 



Leptoptila fulviventris Lawrence, Ann. New York Acad. Sci., vol. 2, 1SS2, p. 287 

 (Yucatiln). 



The seven specimens secured were collected on March 22 and April 

 10 and 12, 1939, and January 25, March 3 and 7, and April 9, 1940. 

 They were common all through the woodland areas about Ties Zapotes 

 but were wild and difficult to secure. When the woods became dry as 

 the rains slackened, I seldom saw them as they always heard me and 

 retreated ahead of me. Males were calling constantly after the middle 

 of March, a resonant coo-oo with the last, accented syllable long drawn 

 out. Occasionally at camp one walked out into the open when all was 

 quiet to feed. Unlike the ground doves, which kept the head moving 

 steadily and rapidly as they picked up food from the ground, this bird 

 pecked only at intervals at small objects that it immediately swallowed. 

 When startled, it stood quickly erect, drew the head and neck back, and 

 then bowed suddenly, at the same time spreading the tail slightly and 

 raising it. Females taken on April 10 and 12 were laying. Natives 

 call this pigeon the limonera. 



LEPTOTILA PLUMBEICEPS PLUMBEICEPS Sclater and Salvin 



Leptoptila plumoeieeps Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1S68, p. 59 

 (Choctum, Vera Paz, Guatemala). 



Carriker shot a male on April 7, 1940, at 2,000 feet elevation on the 

 Cerro de Tuxtla where it was drinking water in a deep ravine. The 

 species is one easily confused with the more abundant L. v. fulviventris. 



OREOPELEIA LAWRENCII CARRIKERI Wetmore 



Oreopeleia lairrcncii carrikeri Wetmore, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 54, Dec. 

 8, 1941, p. 205 (Volcan San Martin, Sierra de Tuxtla, Veracruz, Mexico). 



Two were taken by Carriker on the Cerro de Tuxtla on March 19 

 and 29, between 1,000 and 2,500 feet, and one on the Volcan San Martin, 

 on April 17, 1940, between 3,000 and 4,000 feet. They were quite 

 common in heavy forest where they walked on the darkly shaded 

 ground. Though retiring, they were not particularly shy, and when 

 flushed ordinarily alighted again on the ground, though sometimes 

 they perched in trees. 



This new race marks a great extension of range for the species, known 

 previously only from two forms, typical lawrencii of Veraguas, Pan- 

 ama, and eastern Costa Rica, and lentipes named by Peters from Te- 



