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Arid region of western and interior North America, from eastern 

 edge of the Great Plains to the Pacific Coast (except humid coast 

 district of Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia) ;« north- 

 ward, regularly, to Manitoba (Qu' Appelle), Saskatchewan, and 

 interior of British Columbia, rarely to Mackenzie (Hay River, Great 

 Slave Lake) ; southward through Mexico, in States of Sonora (Guay- 

 mas; Huerachi; Hermosillo; Ysleta; Opodepe; La Chumata), Chi- 

 huahua (Colonia Garcia) , Nuevo Leon (Pasqueria Grande; Topo Chico; 

 Hacienda de las Escobas; Hacienda de los Trevinos), Tamaulipas 

 (Aldama; Sota la Marina; Tampico; Tamesi), San Luis Potosi (Plains 

 of San Luis Potosi), Guanajuato, Aguas Calientes, Zacatecas (Jerez), 

 Jalisco (Las Canoas; Zapotlan; Zacoalco; Bolanos; Guadalajara), 

 Durango (Rio Sestin); Sinaloa (Mazatlan; Escuinapa), Colima (Plains 

 of Cohma), Mexico (Huipulco), Puebla (Huehuetldn; Atotonilco; San 

 Miguel Molino), Vera Cruz (Orizaba; Cordova), and Oaxaca (Oaxaca 

 City; Tehuantepec; Talea; Le Parada; Villa Alta), and Territory of 

 Tepic (Garapatos, near Amatlan de Canas), and, at least during mi- 

 gration, Guatemala (El Rancho, Zapata; Dueiias; San Martin, Quezal- 

 tenango), Honduras, Nicaragua (Realejo; Chinandega; San Rafael del 

 Norte; Sucuya) , and Costa Rica (San Jose; Volcan de Irazu; Volcan de 

 Miravalles; San Mateo; Alajuela; San Lucas; Bebedero; Azahar de 

 Cartago; Escazu; ElHogar; LaHondura; Buenos Aires) , to western 

 Panama (Calobre; Volcan de Chiriqui). Lower California (Rosario; 

 Santa Ana; Comondu; LaGrulla). 



Ectopistes caroUnensis (not Columba carolinensis Linnaeus) Peale, U. S. Expl. 

 Exped., Birds, 1848, 189 (Oregon and San Francisco Bay). — Woodhouse, 

 in Rep. Sitgreaves's Expl. Zuni and Col. R. , 1853, 92 (Indian Territory; Texas;. 

 New Mexico). — Newberry, Rep. Pacific R. R. Sm'v., iv, pt. iv, chap, i, 

 1857, 92 (California; Oregon). — Heermann, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., x, pt. iv, 

 no. 2, 1859, 60 (California). 



Zenaidura carolinensis Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1856, 309 (Cor- 

 dova, Vera Cruz); 1858, 305 (La Parada, Oaxaca); 1859, 391 (Talea, 

 Oaxaca). — Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 604, part (western 

 localities; crit.); Rep. U. S. and Mex. Bound. Surv., ii, pt. 2, 1859, 21 (Ta- 

 maulipas; Ringgold Barracks, Texas; San Elizario; Colorado R., California); 

 Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 451, part. — Kennerly, Rep. Pacific R. R. 

 Surv., X, no. 3, 1859, 33 (Texas to Arizona). — Sclater and Salvin, Ibis, 

 1859, 222 (Duenas, Guatemala; habits). — Cooper and Suckley, Rep. Pa- 

 cific R. R. Surv., xii, book ii, pt. iii, 1860, 218 (Fort Steilacoom, etc., Wash- 

 ington). — Taylor, Ibis, 1860, 227 (Honduras). — Coues, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. 

 Phila., 1866, 93 (Fort WTiipple, Arizona, summer resid.); Check List, 2d ed., 

 1882, no. 544, part.— Dresser, Ibis, 1866, 24 (s. Texas).— Lawrence, Ann. 

 Lye. N. Y., ix, 1868, 139 (Volcan de IrazU and San Jose, Costa Rica); ix, 

 1869, 207; Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., ii, 1874, 304 (Mazatlan, Sinaloa); Bull. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 4, 1876, 44 (Gineta Mts., Chiapas).— Brown, Ibis, 1868, 



o Specimens from the coast district, from Oregon northward, probably represent a 

 different form, as already noted. 



