2. colt-mba. 289 



Hah. Guatemala, down to Colombia, Guiana, Brazil, Ecuador, and 

 Peru. 



According to Taczanowski, the Peruvian birds differ slightly 

 from the Cayenne ones. 



Specimens from Brazil generally have the tail darker at the base, 

 with a fairly well-defined lighter terminal band; and it is very 

 probable that the description of Columba sylvestris, Yieill.*, from 

 Paraguay, applies to such specimens. Wagler has already alluded 

 to the great similarity of C. sylvestris to C. rufina, with which Graf 

 von Berlepsch thinks it may be identical. 



The type of Melopelia plumbescens, Lawr., kindly sent for in- 

 spection by Mr. Allen, is no doubt a young bird of the present 

 species, as already surmised by Mr. Salvin. Two specimens in the 

 British-Museum collection, both from British Guiana, agree closely 

 with it. It has the tail uniform ; so that if the characteristic 

 features of C. sylvestris are found to hold, M. plumbescens would go 

 with true C. rufina. 



a. Jad.sk. Rio Dulce, Guatemala, Dec. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(O.S.). 



b. $ ad. sk. Cubilguitz,Guatemala(0.&). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



c. A'L sk. Guatemala. Tweeddale Coll. 



d. Ad. sk. British Honduras {Blanco- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



neattx). 



e. Ad. sk. San Pedro, Honduras (G. M. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



WMtely). 



f. c? ad. sk. Costa Rica (./. Carmiol). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



g. $ ad. sk. Bugaba, Chiriqui (AreS). Sahin-Gndman Coll. 

 h. Ad. sk. Chiriqui. Capt.Kellet & Lieut. 



Wood [P.]. 

 £ ° ad. sk. Cordillera de Tole, Yeragua Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(Arc6). 

 k. 9 ad. sk. Calovevora, Yeragua (Arce). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



1. (5ad.sk. Lion Hill, Isthmus of Panama Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(McLeannan). 



* COI.UMBA SYLVESTUIS. 



Paloma months. A:ara, Apunt. iii. p. 11, n. 319 (1802) (Paraguay) : id. cJ. 



S r„. Voy. iii. p. 129 (1809). 

 Columba sylvestris, VicilL X D. xxvi. p. 366 (1818) (ex Azard) ; id. Enc. 



Mtth. i. p. 375(1823) ; Wagl, Syst. Nat. Columba, Bp. 54 | i-L'Ti : Less. 



Compl.dc Huff., Ois. viii. p. .">s <l>:;7): G.H. dr. <,<». B. ii. p. 470, 



n. 17 (1844) ; Hartl. Ind. Asar. Apunt. p. 20, n. 319 (,1847) ; Gieb. Thes. 



Orn. i. p. 7M (1872). 

 Columba melanoptera, Temm. luce Mid. ) Pig. et Gall. i. pp. 359, 488 



(1813); Steph. Gen.Zool. xi. p. 101 (1819) ; Desm. Diet. Be. Xat. xl. 



p. 37-"> (1826). 

 Chlorumas sylvestris, /,'y/. Cv,^>. Ar. ii. p. o2(l>.">4 . . '. ' ; . Rend. 



sxxix. p. 1108 (1854), xl. p. 218, n. 147 (1855); id. Coup <Tceil Ordre 



Pig. pp. 25, 56, n. 147 (1855) ; G. B. Gr. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 235, n. 928 



(1870); Hi in. x Bckuw. Nommcl. Mus.Hem. 0™. p. 277 (Rio Grande 



and S.E. Brazil) (1890). 

 Columba rufina, llerl. J.f. O. 1887, p. 124. n. 292 (Acara, u. 319). 

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