424 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Peristera griseola (not Columbina griseola Spix) Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, iv, no. 



35 (Columbae), 1873, 135 (Guatemala). 

 [Chamsepelia] gnseola Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 133, part 



(Colombia; Panama). 

 Chaemepelia minuta elseodes Todd, Ann. Carnegie, Mus., viii, May 8, 1913, 578 



(Buenos Aires, s. w. Costa Rica; coll. Carnegie Mus.). 



CH^MEPELIA RDTIPENNIS RUFIPENNIS (Bonaparte). 



RUDDY GROUND DOVE. 



Adult male. — Pileum gray or brownish gray (dark or deep gull 

 gray to neutral gray or light neutral gray), becoming much paler 

 on forehead (which is sometimes tinged with pale vinaceous), pass- 

 ing into more vinaceous gray on nape, this into cinnamon-brown, 

 walnut brown, or roods brown on back and scapulars, the wings, 

 rump, and upper tail-coverts (especially the first) brighter (deep 

 pecan brown to vinaceous roods brown); outer webs of exterior 

 scapulars and innermost secondaries (sometimes some of proximal 

 greater coverts also) with an oblique bar of black, some of the 

 smaller proximal coverts occasionally with small black spots ; alulae, 

 primary coverts, primaries, and distal secondaries chestnut-rufous 

 or rufous-chestnut, tipped with grayish brown or dusky, this occu- 

 pying most of outer web on the first, elsewhere most extended on 

 longer primaries, narrowest (sometimes obsolete) on secondaries; 

 middle pair of rectrices similar in color to rump, etc., sometimes 

 becoming grayish brown or dusky distally; remaining rectrices dull 

 black distally, cinnamon-brownish basally, the black increasing in 

 extent toward the outermost rcctrix, which has only the extreme 

 basal portion brownish or grayish, one or more of the outer rectrices 

 being margined terminally with fight cinnamon-brownish or russet- 

 ^inaceous, especially on outer web; sides of head (including super- 

 cifiary region and sides of forehead) pale grayish vinaceous, fading 

 into dull white or vinaceous-white on chin and upper throat, deep- 

 ening into dull russet-vinaceous, or light grayish russet-vinaceous,** 

 on under parts, deepest on under tail-coverts; axillars and proximal 

 or central under wing-coverts dull black, the rest of under surface 

 of wing chestnut-rufous, the coverts sometimes suffused or ter- 

 minally margined with dusky, the remiges (especially longer pri- 

 maries) with tips grayish brown; bill horn color, grayish brown, or 

 olive, darker terminally; iris red or pink; legs and feet flesh color; 

 length (skins), 152-182 (165); wing, 83.5-94 (89.2); tail, 57-69.5 

 (63.2); exposed culmen, 12-13.5 (12.8); tarsus, 15-17.5 (16.4); 

 middle toe, 15-17 (16.3). «> 



« There is no color represented in "Color Standards and Color Nomenclature" 

 which very closely approximates the color of the under parts in the adult male of 

 tliis species, though sometimes army brown is very close to the color of the under 

 tail-coverts. 



^ Fifty-three specimens. 



