292 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



CHLORffiNAS FASCIATA VIOSCaE (Brewster). 



VIOSCA'S PIGEON. 



Similar to C.f.fasciata, hut color of head and under parts decidedly 

 paler and less tinged with vinaceous (the general tone of the anterior 

 under parts approximately light heliotrope gray), and dusky band 

 across middle of tail indistinct, sometimes obsolete. 



Adult male.— Length (skins), 325-385 (340); wing, 201-218 (208.2); 

 tail, 141-152 (146.5); culmen, 16-21(18.6); tarsus, 25-27.5 (26.4); 

 middle toe, 28.5-31 (29.8). « 



Adult female.— Length (skins), 325-363 (341); wing, 187-212 

 (198.9); tail, 136-145 (141.4); culmen, 17-19 (17.9); tarsus, 23-26 

 (25); middle toe, 27-31 (29.9)^ 



Southern Lower California (Sierra de la Laguna; La Laguna; near 

 Triunfo; Pearce's Ranch; Victoria Mts.; Mt. Miraflores; El Sauz; La 

 Chuperosa; Cape San Lucas; San Jose del Rancho-). 



Columbafasciata (not of Say) Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., v, 1883, 533, foot- 

 note (Cape San Lucas and Miraflores, Lower California). — Belding, Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., vi, 1883, 350 (Sierra de la Laguna, Lower California; habits). 



Columbafasciata vioscas Brewster, Auk, v, Jan., 1888, 86 (La Laguna, Lower 

 California; coll. W. Brewster). — American Ornithologists' Union Com- 

 mittee, Suppl. to Check List, 1889, 8 (no. 312a); Check List, 2d ed., 1895, 

 no. 312a; 3rd ed., 1910, 147.— Bryant (W. E.), Proc Ac. Sci., ser. 2, 1889, 277 

 (Cape San Lucas, Miraflores, and Victoria Mts., Lower California). — Bendire, 

 Life Hist. N. Am. Birds, 1892, 127.— Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 

 189C, 591. 



Columba vioscas Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxi, 1893, 293 (San Jose del 

 Rancho, Lower California.) 



[Columba] vioscse Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 70. — Forbes and Robinson, Bull. 

 Liverp. Mus., ii, 1900, 132. 



CHLOR(ENAS ALBILINEA CRISSALIS (Salvadori). 



COSTA RICAN BAND-TAILED PIGEON. 



Similar to C. a. aJbilinea,'^ but under tail-covert grayish white 

 instead of deep gray and general coloration lighter, the under parts 

 strongly tinged with vinaceous. Similar also to C. fasciata fasciata, 

 but bill wholly yellow and general coloration decidedly darker, with 

 white of under parts restricted to under tail-coverts and strongly 

 tinged with gray. 



Adult male. — Pileum dark purple-drab, the sides of head more 

 grayish, passing into pale quaker drab on chin and throat; a white 

 band across nape or upper hindneck, below which the entire hindneck 

 is metallic bronze (varying from coppery to greenish), the feathers 

 sharply outlmed, producing a scaly or imbricated effect; back and 

 scapulars fuscous or chsetura drab, faintly glossed, in certain lights, 



o Ten specimens. & Seven specimens. c See p. 285. 



