BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



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[Columhigallina passerina] var. socoiroensis Dubois, Synopsis Avium, ii, 1902, 764. 

 Chsemepelia passerina socorroensis Todd, Ann. Carnegie Mus., viii, 1913, 543 (monogr.). 

 Chamxpelia passerina (not Columba passerina Linnaeus) Salvadoei, Cat. Blrda Brit. 

 Mus., xxi, 1893, 473, part (Socorro I.). 



CH.ffiMEPELIA PASSERINA NEGLECTA Carriker. 



CENTRAL AMERICAN GROUND DOVE. 



Similar to C. p. passerina but color of upper parts browner, base of 

 bill red instead of yellow or orange, and adult naale with vinaceous 

 of head and neck averaging deeper, and wing-coverts niore exten- 

 sively vinaceous; similar also to C. p. pallescens but coloration 

 decidedly darker. 



Adult male.— Length, (skins) 146-172 (161); wing, 85-89 (87); tail, 

 53-60 (56); exposed culmen, 11-12 (11.5); tarsus, 16-16.5 (16.1).'» 



Adult female.— Length (sldns), 154-173 (163); wing, 84-89 (86); 

 tail, 52-60 (57); exposed culmen, 11-12 (11.7); tarsus, 15-16.5 

 (15.6).'^ 



Central America: Guatemala (Duenas; San Geronimo; Toyabaj, 

 Quitche; Panajachal, 5,000 feet; Santa Maria, near Quezaltenango), 

 and southward through Honduras (mouth of Rio Roman) and Nicar- 

 agua (Sucuya; Ometepe; San Rafael del Norte; San Juan del Sur; 

 San Carlos; Matagalpa) to western Costa Rica (Tenorio; Corahllo; 

 Mravalles; Bagaces; Bebedero; La Palma de Nicoya; Esparta; Pigres; 

 Alajuela; San Jose; Cartago; Los Cuadros de Irazii); casual or occa- 

 sional in Yucatan (Merida; Chichen-Itza; San Ignacio). 



{?)Cham%pelia passerina (not Columba passerina Linnseus) Sclater and Salvin, 

 Ibis, 1859, 223 (Duenas, Guatemala; habits). — Salvin and Sclater, Ibis, 

 1860, 45 (Guatemala; habits).— Salvin, Cat. Strickland Coll., 1882, 547, 

 part (Guatemala). — Gates, Cat. Birds' Eggs Brit. Mus., i, 1901, 101, part 

 (Duenas, Guatemala). 



Chamxpelia passerina Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., ix, 1868, 139 (San Jose and 

 Cartago, Costa Rica); ix, 1869, 207 (Merida, Yucatan). — Frantzius, Joum. 

 fiir Orn., 1869, 371 (Costa Rica). — Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. 

 N. Am. Birds, iii, 1874, 389, part (Central American references). — Boucard, 



a Ten specimens. 



Locality. 



MALES. 



One adult male from Guatemala (Duenas) 



One adult male from Honduras 



Two adult males from Nicaragua 



Six adult males from Costa Rica 



FEMAXES. 



One adult female from Honduras 



Three adult females from Nicaragua 



Six adult females from Costa Rica 



Tarsus. 



16 



16.5 

 16 

 16.2 



16 



15.5 



15.7 



