TYPE SPECIMENS OF BIRDS 115 



Zenaida ruficauda robinsoni Ridgway 



Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 28: 107, May 27, 1915. 

 =Zenaidura auriculata stenura (Bonaparte). See Hellmayr and Con- 

 over, Catalogue of birds of the Americas 1 (1) : 490, 492, 1942. 

 236767. Adult male. Honda, Department of Tolima, Colombia. July 



14, 1892. Collected by Wirt Robinson. 

 Zenaida jessieae "Riker, MS." Ridgway 



Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 10: 527, August 6, 1888. 

 =Zenaidura auriculata jessieae (Ridgway). See Hellmayr and Conover, 



Catalogue of birds of the Americas 1(1): 489, 1942. 

 121118. Adult male. Diamantina (near Santarem and east of the mouth 



of the Rio Tapajos) , State of Para, Brazil. June 1, 1887. Collected 



by Clarence B. Riker. Original number 150. 

 Zenaida vinaceo-rufa Ridgway 



Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 7: 176, September 1, 1884. 

 =Zenaidura auriculata vinaceo-rufa (Ridgway). See Hellmayr and 



Conover, Catalogue of birds of the Americas 1(1): 493, 1942. 

 97933. Adult female. Curagao Island, Caribbean Sea off Venezuela. 



February 10-18, 1884. Collected by James E. Benedict and Willard 



Nye, Jr. Received from the U.S. Fish Commission. 



Genus ZENAIDA Bonaparte 



Melopelia asiatica nieamsi Ridgway 



Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 28: 107, May 27, 1915. 

 =Zenaida asiatica mearnsi (Ridgway). See Hellmayr and Conover, 



Catalogue of birds of the Americas 1(1): 499, 1942. 

 121177. Adult male. Five miles north of Nogales, Santa Cruz County, 

 Arizona. June 2, 1891. Collected by Pierre L. Jouy. Original 

 number 1187. 

 Zenaida asiatica alticola Saunders 



Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 64: 83, May 14, 1951. 

 397507. Adult male. Near Patzun (at about 6,900 feet), Department 

 of Chimaltenango, Guatemala. March 5, 1942. Collected by George 

 B. Saunders. Original number 1612. Received from the U.S. Fish 

 and Wildlife Service. 

 Columba meloda von Tschudi 



Archiv fiir Naturgeschichte 9: 385, 1843. 

 =Zenaida asiatica meloda (von Tschudi). See Friedmann and Deignan, 



Zoologica, New York 27: 50, 1942. 

 41390. Adult (sex not indicated). Peru. Collected by Johann J. von 



Tschudi. Received from the Neuchatel Museum. 

 This form was described from an undisclosed number of cotypes. 

 Hellmayr and Conover (Catalogue of birds of the Americas 1 [1]:502, 

 1942) state categorically "type in Neuchatel Museum," but our specimen is 

 nonetheless a cotype. 



