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Family CKACID.E. 



21. ?ORTALIS RUFICAUDA, Jardine. 

 CHACHALACA. 



. Native name, '' giiacharaca." 



They are found spariugly in tbe mountains around El Yalle, but 

 altliougb I made tliree separate trips after thein, accompanied eacli 

 time by an experienced liunter, I got none, and only once did I even 

 bear their notes. The identification is from my descrijition of a speci- 

 men in captivity. 



Family COLUMBID.E. 



2-1. COLUMBA GYMNOPHTHALMA, Temminck. 



BAKE-FACED PIGEON. 



Native name, "paloma." 



Found sparingly in the savanna to the west of Porlamar. 1 was told 

 that at other seasons they were abundant. The two specimens that I 

 obtained were badly soiled about the foreheads by the juice of the fruit 

 of the post cactns. One, a young female, was without the granulated 

 ring- around the orbit. 



[The adult female in the collection lacks the "reddish opaline" and 

 blackish bands of the male on the hind neck; the bands or bars in this 

 si)ecimen are similar to those on the sides of neck, but with the black- 

 ish bars replaced by dusky brownish ones. This difference is a sexual 

 one, then, and not due to immaturity, as thought by Mr. Hartert. The 

 immature female has these bauds on sides and back of neck only slightly 

 indicated, and the breast and abdomen are tinged with brown; the 

 ring of papilhe round the eye is absent, but there is au indication of a 

 difference in structure between this ring and the inner one. Lieutenant 

 Itobinson obtained a male on Curasao during his former visit to South 

 America, and j\Ir. Hartert also met with it on the same island. The 

 U. S. National Museum possesses an adult male from the island of 

 St. Thomas, collected by A. B. Armes about the year 1873. This will 

 add another species to the avifauna of St. Thomas, and also one common 

 to that island and Curasao. From the fact of its inhabiting Margarita 

 (whose avifauna seems to be exclusively derived from the mainland), it 

 is quite probable that Herr Peter's statement ^ that it occurs ou the 

 coast of Venezuela is correct.— C. ^Y. II.] 



23. ZENAIDA VINACEO-RUFA, Ridgway. 



VINACEOUS DOVE. 



Native name " guarame." 



Common near the seashore. I killed five at one shot at the water 

 hole west of Porlamar. Irides brown. 



[These specimens are typical of this form. — C. W. R.] 



1 Jour, fiir Oru., Jan., 1892, p. 112. 



