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search through the literature as their collation has involved, if under- 

 taken by revisers generally, would tend to place systematic orni- 

 thology, and particularly nomenclature, on a much sounder basis. 

 It has seemed best, therefore, to list all the references found, however 

 trivial in character. Moreover, of all those appearing in the tables 

 of synonymy on succeeding pages, less than a half-dozen have been 

 taken at second-hand, and all but about fifty have been personally 

 verified by the writer. For memoranda on the remainder he is 

 indebted to Prof. Wells W. Cooke, Mr. Harry C. Oberholser, Dr. 

 Charles W. Richmond, Mr. Joseph H. Riley, Mr. Austin H. Clark, 

 Mr. Witmer Stone, Dr. Glover M. Allen, Mr. Waldron DeWitt 

 Miller, and Mr. J. Warren Jacobs in this country, to Dr. A. Menegaux 

 of Paris, France, and to Mr. Charles Chubb of London, England. 

 To Messrs. Richmond and Oberholser he is also under additional 

 obligations for numerous suggestions and much valuable criticism. 

 To those persons who have placed material at his disposal for study 

 in this connection he takes this opportunity of again returning thanks. 

 All measurements given are in millimeters, and, unless otherwise 

 stated, are based on a series of not less than ten good specimens. 

 Ridgway's Nomenclature of Colors has been used as a standard in 

 preparing descriptions. 



Genus Cilemepelia Swainson. 

 The principal references to the genus, together with a list of the 

 emended forms under which it has appeared, are given in this table. 



Colnmba, part, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 162; ed. 12, I, 1766, 279. — 

 Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, ii, 1789, 769, and of earlier authors generally. 



Goura, part, Stephens, Shaw's Gen. Zool., XI, i, 1819, 119. 



Columbine Spix, Avium Species Novae, II, 1825, 57, 58. part (no type indicated). — 

 Gray, List Gen. Birds, 1840, 58 {Columba passerina Linnaeus designated as 

 type). — Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XXIV, 1907, 33, 44, 46 (crit.). — 

 Allen, Auk, XXV, 1908, 301 (crit.). — American Ornithologists' Union 

 Committee, Auk, XXVI, 1909, 300 (crit.). — Allen, Science, n. s., XXXIII, 

 191 1. 336 (crit.). — International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, 

 Smiths. Inst. Publ. No. 2013, 1911, 73 (crit.). — Brabourne and Chubb, Birds 

 S. Am., I, 1912, 18 (list of South American forms). 



Columbigallitia (not of Oken, 1817) Boie, Isis, 1826, 977 (type, Columba passerina 

 Linnaeus). — American Ornithologists' Union Committee, Check List N. 

 Am. Birds, 1886, 181.— Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 214 (diag.). — 

 Cory, Auk, IV, 1887, 116. — Cory, Birds W. Indies, 1889, 217. — Waterhouse, 

 Ind. Gen. Avium, 1889, 50.— Sawadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XXI, 1893, 



