518 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



b 1 . Above vinaceous chestnut C. talpacoti. 



a 1 . Remiges with more or less rufous. (C. rufipennis.) 



b. Darker C. rufipennis rufipennis. 



b 1 . Paler C. rufipennis eluta. 



Chaemepelia passerina (Linnaeus). 

 L'nder this head are placed such references to this species as are of 

 uncertain, indefinite, or general application. Some of the latter class, 

 however, appear also under the various subspecies involved. 



"Ortolan" de Rochefort, Histoire naturelle et morale des lies antilles de l'Amer- 

 ique, 1658, 153 (Antilles). 



''Columbus minimus . . ." Klein, Historiae Avium Prodromus, 1750, 120, No. 

 124, part (references). 



Columba passerina Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 165, excl. syn. part (diag.; 

 "America inter tropicos"; ex Sloane, Catesby, Ray, and Willughby); ed. 12, I, 

 1766, 285 (ex auctoribus eisdem, atque Brisson). — Scopoli, Annus I. Historico- 

 Naturalis, 1769, 126, No. 183 (diag.; "in Americse torridae rupibus et arbustis"). 

 — Forster, Cat. Animals N. Am., 1771, 11. — Muller, Natursystem, II, 

 1/73. 512 (descr.; geog. distr.). — Jacquin, Beytrage, 1784, 32 (diag.; habits). 

 — Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, ii, 1789, 787, excl. syn. part (diag.; "in Americae cali- 

 dioribus ad Carolinam usque"; ex Jacquin, Ray, Brisson, Buffon, Willughby, 

 Catesby, Sloane, Brown, Latham, and Pennant). — Latham, Ind. Orn., II, 

 1790, 611 (diag.; syn.). — Bonnaterre, Tabl. Enc. et Meth., I, 1792, 252 (descr.; 

 habits; "l'Amerique"). — Lichtenstein, Cat. Rerum Nat. Rar., 1793, 40 (South 

 America). — Turton, Gen. Syst. Nat., I, 1806, 478 (diag., etc.).— Temminck, 

 Cat. Syst. Cab. Orn., 1807, 144 (syn.). — Temminck, in Temminck and Knip, 

 Pigeons, I, 1808-11, Colombi-gallines, 24, pis. 13-14 (South America; Caribbean 

 Islands; Porto Rico; San Domingo; descr. and general account). — Latham, Syst. 

 Orn., 1809, 274 (diag.; syn.). — Wilson, Am. Orn., VI, 1812, 15, part ("West 

 Indies"). — Temminck, Hist. Nat. Gen. Pigeons et Gallinaces, I, 1813, 425 (geog. 

 distr.; descr.; general account), 496 (diag.; syn.). — Ord, in Guthrie's Geography, 

 Am. ed. 2, 1815, 317, (340) (North and South Carolina; Louisiana; Florida; 

 Mexico; West Indies; habits). — Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., XXVI, 

 1818,401 (geog. distr.; general account). — Vieillot, Gal. Oiseaux, I, 1825, 333, 



♦ pi. 196 (syn.; descr.; geog. distr.; habits). — Desmarest, Diet. Sci. Nat., XL, 1826, 

 308 (descr.; geog. distr.; habits). — Wagler, Syst. Avium, 1827, [260], Columba, 

 sp. 88 (United States and Caribbean Islands; descr.; syn.). — Lesson, Man. 

 d'Orn., II, 1828, 162 (given by Swainson as one of the types of his genus Chce- 

 mepelia). — Bonaparte, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., II, 1828, 120 (diag.; geog. 

 distr.). — Lesson, Traite d'Orn., i83i(?), 474 (references). — Selby, Jardine's 

 Naturalist's Library, Birds, IX, 1835, 202, in text. — Oken, Allgemeine Natur- 

 geschichte, VII, 1837, 294 (descr.; references; geog. distr.; habits, ex Wilson). — 

 [Rivoli?], Catalogue de la magnifique Collection d'Oiseaux, 1846, 30 (America). 

 — Kaup, Das Thierrich, II, 1856, 49 (descr.; North America and West Indies). — 

 Sundevall, CEfv. Kongl. Vet.-Akad. Forh., "1869," 1870, 586 (North America; 



