'NOTES ON GUAiTElVIALAN BIRDS' — WETMORE 537 



Around Alotenango I noted mourning doves on November 2 along 

 the barren Barranca Honda toward the base of Volcan de Fuego, and 

 the following day saw many flying in early morning over old corn- 

 fields. Near Panajachel from November 11 to 15 they were found in 

 brush-grown pastures or were seen flying along the lake shore at dusk. 

 On November 24 one flushed on an open ridge at 10,500 feet elevation 

 at Desconsuelo. On the morning of November 29 there was much 

 shooting at mourning doves. And on December 2 in the principal 

 market in Guatemala City I saw a woman offering doves for sale in 

 bundles of four, asking 6 cents a bird, or 60 cents a dozen, which prob- 

 ably meant that they might be purchased for 3 to 5 cents each. She 

 had about 100 freshly killed birds. Those that I examined closely 

 were the western race. 



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



Columia asiatica Linnaeus, Systema naturae, ed. 10, vol. 1, 1758, p. 163 (Jamaica). 



Seen at Zacapa on December 3 and on a low island opposite Puerto 

 Barrios on December 4. 



COLUMBIGALLINA PASSERINA PALLESCENS (Baird) : Mexican Ground Dove 



Chamaepelia passerina ? var. pallescens Baibd, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 

 1859 (Jan. 12, 1860), p. 305 (Cape St. Lucas, Baja California). 



Near Antigua and Duefias these birds were distributed through the 

 fields and along the barrancas in small numbers, usually in pairs or 

 singly. Several were seen at Panajachel. 



Griscom has noted ^ that these doves from Guatemala are inter- 

 mediate between pallescens and neglecta but nearer the former. A 

 male that I shot near Duehas on November 8 is identical with skins 

 of neglecta from Costa Rica. A female taken at Panajachel on 

 November 15 is similar to fallescens. An immature just from the 

 nest was collected with tlie female last mentioned. 



Family PSITTACIDAE 



ARATINGA CANICULARIS CANICULARIS (Linnaeus) 



Psittacus canicularis Linnaeus, Systema naturae, ed. 10, vol. 1, 1758, p. 98 

 (northwestern Costa Rica.) 



At Las Lajas, at an elevation of 3,500 feet on the east base of the 

 Volcan de Fuego, I heard the chatter of parakeets in tall trees above 

 a coffee plantation and climbed laboriously up a steep slope to secure 

 one of these birds. A dozen or so flew about in pairs in swift, direct 



iiBull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 44, 1932, pp. 113-114. 



