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Immature male. — Variously intermediate in coloration, according 

 to age, between adult male and female. 



Young male. — Similar to the adult female, but general tone of 

 coloration slightly more rufescent, especially on wing-coverts and 

 under parts, the former without whitish on tips or terminal margins. 



Southeastern Mexico, in States of Vera Cruz (Jalapa; Orizaba; 

 Huatusco; Omealca; Potrero; Buena Vista; Motzorongo; San Andres 

 Tuxtla; Tlalcotalpam; Atoyac; Playa Vicente), Oaxaca (Tiixtepec; 

 Putla?*), Tabasco (Teapa; San Juan Bautista), Chiapas (Tonala?'^; 

 Yajalon; Huehuetan), Campeche (Campeche), Yucatan (Temax; 

 Tekanto; Izalam; Peto; Buctzotz; Merida; Chichen-Itza; Cozumel 

 Island), and Quintana-Roo (Xcopen; Camp Mengel), and southward, 

 through Guatemala (Duenas; Retalhuleu; Amatitlan; Peten; Gualan; 

 Los Amates, Yzabal; El Paraiso; near Virginia Plantation), Sal- 

 vador (La Libertad), British Honduras, Honduras (Comayagua; San 

 Pedro; San Pedro Sula; Ceiba; Truxillo), Nicaragua (Chinandega; 

 Matagalpa), western Costa Rica (Orosi, Cachi; Barranca de Punta 

 Arenas; Punta Arenas; Miravalles; La Palma de Nicoya; San Jose; 

 Las Trojas de Alajuela; Pigres; Boruca; El Pozo del Rio Grande; 

 El Pozo de Terraba; Brunka, Terraba Valley; Buenos Aires), Panama 

 (Calobre, Chitra, and Mina de Chorcha, Veragua; Divala, David, and 

 Bugaba, Chiriqui; Gatim, Lion Hill, Chepo, and Rio Indio, Canal 

 Zone; San Miguel and Saboga islands), Colombia (Cartagena; Buca- 

 ramanga; Barranquilla; Honda; Magdelena Valley; Savanilla; Bonda, 

 Cienega, Chirua, Masinga Vieja, La Concepcion, and Sierra Nevada, 

 Santa Marta; Ocana; Medellin, Antioqula; Bogota; Pueblo Viejo, 

 Cauca Valley), and Venezuela (Caracas; San Esteban; Cumanacoa; 

 San Antonio, Bermudez; Altagracia, Caicara, La Union, and Ciudad 

 Bolivar, Orinoco Valley; Valle; Margarita Island) to Guianas, 

 Trinidad, and Tobago. 



Chamaepelia talpicoti (not Columba talpacoti Temminck) Jardine, Ann. and Mag, 

 N. H. (2), XX, 1847, 374 (Tobago). 



Chaviaepelia talpacoti Hartlaub, Isis, xli, 1848, 407 (Tobago). 



Chamaepelia talpacoti Taylor, Ibis, 1864, 94 (Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela). 



Ch[amaepelia] rufipennis Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., xl, 1855, 22 (Cartagena, 

 Colombia; crit.). 



Chamaepelia rufipennis Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1858, 359 (Comayagua, 

 Honduras), 369 (Jalapa, Vera Cruz). — Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1859, 

 61 (San Pedro, Honduras; Peten, Guatemala). — Sclater and Salvin, Ibis, 

 1859, 223 (Comayagua); Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1864, 370 (Lion Hill, Panama; 

 crit.); 1868, 629 (San Esteban, Venezuela); 1879, 544 (Medellin, Antioquia, 

 Colombia; descr. nest). — Taylor, Ibis, 1860, 227 (Comayagua, Honduras). — 

 Salvin. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond.. 1867. 159 (David, Panama); 1870, 217 

 (Chitra, Calobre, Bugaba, and Mina de Chorcha, Panama); Ibis, 1889, 378 



a Specimens from these localities have not been examined. They may represent 

 C. r. eluta. 



