BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



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Adult maZg.— Length (skins), 137-157 (147); wing, 76-82 (80); 

 tail, 50-58 (53); exposed culmen, 10.5-12 (11.2); tarsus, 15-17 (16).« 



Adult female. — Length (skins), 136-155 (145); wing, 75-81 (79); 

 tail, 51-58 (53.5); exposed culmen, 11-12 (11.1); tarsus, 15-16.5 

 (15.7).« 



Caribbean coast district of Colombia (Bonda, Minca, Santa Marta, 

 and Sierra Nevada, Santa Marta; Paramo de Macotama; Carte- 

 gena; Tierra Bomba, and Bay of Tesco, near Cartagena; Sabanilla; 

 Barranquilla; Bucaramanga ?) and Venezuela (Caracas; Ciudad 

 Bolivar; Agua Salada, Ciudad Bohvar; La Guaira; Tocuyo, Estado 

 Lara; Carupano; El Callao; Caicara; Cumana; Cariaco Peninsula; 

 Margarita, Tortuga, Los Hermanos, Orquilla, Blanquilla, and Los 

 Testigos islands) and islands of Curasao, Aruba, and Bonaire. Trini- 

 dad ? Tobago ? 



{'i)Chamae'pelia passerina (not Columba passerina Linnaeus) Lichtenstein, Nom. 



Av. Mus. BeroL, 1854, 82, part (Colombia). 

 Chamaepelia passerina Schott, Rep. Lieut. Michler's Exp. Isth. Darien, 1861, 



247, in text, part (Tierra Bomba and Bay of Tesco, near Cartagena, Colombia). 

 Chamsepelia passerina Wyatt, Ibis, 1871, 383 (Santa Marta, Colombia). — (?)Ber- 



LEPSCH, Journ. fiir Orn., 1884, 317 (Bucaramanga, Colombia). — Ridgway, 



Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vii, 1884, 177 (Curasao). — Peters, Journ. fur Orn. 



1892, 113 (Curasao; habits).— Salvadori, Cat. Birds. Brit. Mus., xxi, 1893, 



473, part (Venezuela; Trinidad). 

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



Forbes and Robinson, Bxill. Liverp. Mus., ii, 1900, 141, part (Cumana, 



Venezuela; Trinidad). 

 Columba passerina (not of Linnaeus) Sundevall, (Efv. Kongl. Vet.-Ak. Forh., 



1869 (1870), 586, part (Venezuela; crit.). 

 Peristera passerina Martin, Bericht Reise Nederl. Westindien, 1887, — (Curasao; 



Bonaire). 

 Columbigallina passerina Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., iv, 1892, 56 (Carupano, 



Venezuela). — Berlepsch, Journ. fur Orn., 1892, 69, 97, part (Curagao; crit.), 



102, part (Curacao, Colombia, Venezuela, Trinidad, and Tobago).— Hartert, 



Ibis, 1893, 326, in text (Bonaire).— Robinson, Flying Trip to Tropics, 1895, 



a Ten specimens. 



Locality. 



MALES. 



Five adult males from Colombia 



Two adult males from Venezuela 



One adult male from Margarita Island . . . 

 Two adult males from Curasao 



FEMALES, 



Five adult females from ColorQbia 



Three adult females from Venezuela 



One adult female from Margarita Island 

 One adult female from Curasao 



Tarsus. 



16.3 

 15.5 

 16.5 

 15.5 



15.6 

 15.8 

 15.5 

 16 



