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Armeria), Guerrero (Tlapa; Acapulco), Oaxaca (Tehuan tepee; Santa 

 Efigenia; mountains near Santo Domingo) and western Chiapas 

 (Tonala; Tuxtla Gutierrez) , through Guatemala (Duenas; Amatitlan; 

 Rio Managua; San Jose; San Geronimo ; Retalliuleu; Barranca Honda; 

 Toliman; Panajachel; Los Amates, Ysabal; Tecpam; Patulul), Sal- 

 vador (La Libertad), and Honduras to northern Nicaragua (Mata- 

 galpa ; Chinandega ; Volcan de Chinandega) . Accidental or occasional 

 on Tres Marias Islands, western Mexico. 



Peristera jamaicensis (not Columba jamaicensis Linnaeus) Gray, List Birds Brit. 

 Mus., Gallinae, 1844, 15, part (spec, g, Mexico). 



(?) Leptopila javiaicensis Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, iv, no. 35 (Columbae), 1873, 

 158, part (Mexico). 



(?) Z[enaida] amabilis (not of Bonaparte) McCall, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1851, 

 220 (bet. Matamoros and Camargo, Tamaulipaa). 



Leptoptila albifrons (not of Bonaparte, 1854) Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 

 1857, 214 (Orizaba, Vera Cruz); 1859, 368 (Jalapa, Vera Cruz), 391 (Playa 

 Vicente, Vera Cruz); 1864, 178 (near City of Mexico). — Sclater and Salvdj, 

 Ibis, 1859, 222 (Duenas, Guatemala; habits); Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1864, 

 370, part (Guatemala); 1870, 838 (coast of Honduras). — Lawrence, Mem. 

 Bost. Soc. N. H., ii, 1874, 305, part (Mazatlan, Sinaloa; habits; descr. nest 

 and eggs); Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 4, 1876, 44 (Santa Efigenia and Tehuan- 

 tepec City, Oaxaca).— Coues, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, ii, 1877, 82 (Hidalgo, 

 Texas).— Lantz, Trans. Kansas Ac. Sci. for 1896-97 (1899), 219 (Amatitlan 

 and San Jose, Guatemala). 



L\eptoptila\ albifrons Reichenbach, Vollat. Naturg., Columbariae, i, 1801, 26, part 

 (Mexico).— Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1868, 60 (Mexico; 

 Guatemala). 



[Leptoptila] albifrons Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 242, no. 9380. — Sclater and 

 Salvin, Norn. Av. Neotr., 1873, 133. 



[Peristera] albifrons Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 242, no. 9380 (Mexico). ^ — Giebel, 

 Thes. Orn., iii, 1877, 65, part. 



Mchmoptila albifrons Cotjes, in Sennett, Bull. U. S. Geol. and Geog. Surv. 

 Terr., iv, 1878, 49 (Hidalgo, Texas; habits).— Brewer, Ibis, 1878, 488 (s. 

 Texas; descr. eggs). — Merrill, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 1878, 158 (Fort 

 Brown, Texas; habits; descr. nest and eggs). — Ridgway, in Merrill, Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 1878, 158 (synonymy). 



Engyptila albifrons Coues, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, v, April, 1880, 100; Check 

 List, 2d ed., 1882, no. 542.— Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, 1880, 195; 

 Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 463. — ^American Ornithologists' Union, 

 Check List, 1886, no. 318.— Ferrari-Perez, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., ix, 1886, 

 175 (Rancho del Ahuehuete, Puebla). — Bendire, Life Hist. N.Am. Birds, i, 

 1892, 144. 



E[ngyptila] albifrons Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 567. — Ridgway, 

 Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 214; 2d ed., 1896. 



Leptoptila brachyptera Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxi, 1893, 545, part 

 (Mexico; coll. Brit. Mus.; ex Peristera brachyptera Gray, List Birds Brit. 

 Mus., Columbae, 1856, 54=nomen nudum; Browns"ville and Hidalgo, Texas; 

 Rio Salada, Monterey, Hacienda de los Escobas, Pesqueria Grande, Rio de la 

 Gilla, and Montemorelos, Nuevo Leon; Sota la Marina, Aldama, and Tam- 

 pico, Tamaulipas; Cuesta de Misantla, Misantla, Coatepec, Atoyac, Jalapa, 

 Vega del Casadero, Playa Vicente, and Sochiapa, Vera Cruz; Sonora; San Bias, 

 Tepic, and Santiago, Tepic; Lake Chapala and Beltran, Jalisco; Santiago, 

 Colima; Acapulco, Guerrero; Tehuantepec, Oaxaca; Tonala, Chiapas; Duenas, 



