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jj. Coloration paler, the upper parts more grayish. (Bahamas, 

 except Great Inagua; Bermudas.) 



Chsemepelia passerina bahamensis (p. 418). 

 Jih. Smaller (wing averaging 78.5 mm., tail averaging 52 mm.). (Great 

 Inagua Island, Bahamas; Mona Island, near Porto Rico.) 



Chsemepelia passerina exigua (p. 420). 

 bb. Neck and chest immaculate. (Chsemepelia minuta.) 

 c. Coloration darker. (Greater part of South America.) 



Chsemepelia minuta minuta (extralimital).a 

 cc. Coloration paler. (Southeastern Mexico to west-central Colombia.) 



Chsemepelia minuta elseodes (p. 422). 

 aa. Sides of tarsus with a Une of minute feathers; axillars and under wing-coverta 

 (at least the proximal ones) black. (Talpacotia.) 

 b. Remiges blackish, without chestnut, 

 c. Upper parts vinaceous-gray. (Western Ecuador and northwestern Peru.) 



Chsemepelia buckleyi (extralimital).^ 

 cc. Upper parts vinaceous-chestnut. (Cisandean South America, from French 

 Guiana to eastern Peru, Paraguay, and northern Argentina.) 



Chsemepelia talpacoti (extralimital).*! 



"■[Columba] minuta Linnseus, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, i, 1766, 285 ("Santo Domingo;" 

 based on Turtur parvus fuscus americanus Brisson, Orn., i, 116, pi. 8, fig. 2). — Goura 

 minuta Stephens, Shaw's Gen. Zool., xi, pt. i, 1819, 137. — Chamsepelia minuta Gray, 

 List Galline Birds Brit. Mus., 1844, 15, excl. syn. part; Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. 

 Mus., xxi, 1893, 481, part (South Am. localities and references). — Chsemepelia minuta 

 minuta Todd, Ann. Carnegie Mus., viii, 1913, 573 (monogr.). — [Columbigallina] minuta 

 Dubois, Synopsis Avium, ii, 1902, 764, part. — Columba grisea Bonnaterre, Tabl. Enc. 

 Meth., i, 1792, 252 (Cayenne). — Columbina grisea Brabourne and Chubb, Birds S. 

 Am., i, 1912, 18.^ — Peristera chalcostigma Reichenbach, Syn. Av., Columbariae, Novit. 

 Suppl., 1851, pi. 2456, figs. 3533, 3534. — Chamsepelia griseola (not Columbina griseola 

 Spix) Baii-d, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Bii'ds, iii, 1874, 389 (excl. syn.), 

 and various authors. — Ch[amaepelia] am/xzilia Bonaparte, Consp. Av., ii, 1857, 78 

 (Peru; coll. Paris Mus.). 



b Chamsepelia buckleyi Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1877, 21 (Santa 

 Rita, w. Ecuador; coll. Salvin and Godman); Taczanowski, Orn. du Perou, iii, 1886, 

 245, Tables, p. 102; Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxi, 1893, 484, pi. 10, fig. 2.— 

 Chsemepelia buckleyi Todd, Ann. Carnegie Miis., viii, 1913, 580 (monogr.). — Columbi- 

 gallina buckleyi Dubois, Synopsis Av., ii, 1902, 764. — Columbina buckleyi Brabourne 

 and Chubb, Birds S. Am., i, 1912, 18. 



c Columba talpacoti Temminck, in Temminck and Knip, Pigeons, i, fam. trois., 

 1808-11, 22, pi. 12 (South America; coll. Paris Mus.). — Ooura talpacoti Stephens, 

 Shaw's Gen. Zool., xi, 1819, 136. — Columbina talpacoti Gould, in Darwin's Zool. Voy. 

 "Beagle," iii, Birds, 1841, 116; Brabourne and Chubb, Birds S. Am., i, 1912, 18.— 

 Chamaepelia talpacoti Hartlaub, Syst. Verz., 1844, 99. — Chamxpelia talpacoti Salvadori, 

 Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxi, 1893, 485. — Chamaepeleia talpacoti Reichenbach, Av. Syst. 

 Nat., 1852, p. xxiv. — Peristera talpacoti Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Ba8,iv, no. 35 (Columbae), 

 1873, 136. — Columbigallina talpacoti Berlepsch, Journ. fiir Orn., 1887, 211. — [Lepto- 

 pelia] talpacoti Heine and Reichenow, Nom. Mus. Hein. Orn., 1890, 283. — Chsemepelia 

 talpacoti Todd, Ann. Carnegie Mus., xiii, 1913, 582 (monogr.). — Columbina cabocolo 

 Spix, Av. Bras., ii, 1825, 58, pi. 75a, fig. 1 (Brazil; coll. Munich Mns. ).—[Chxmepelia] 

 dnnamomina Swainson, Classif. Birds, ii, 1837, 349. — Chamaepeleia cinnamomina 



