520 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



life). — Salvin, Cat. Strickland Coll., 1882, 547, part (North America). — Cory, 



List Birds W. Indies, 1885, 24 (West Indies). — Tristram, Cat. Coll. Birds, 1889. 



39, part ("Weft India"). — Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XXI, 1893, 473 



(descr.; syn.; geog. distr.; crit.). — Sclater, List Vert. Animals in Gardens Zool. 



Soc. London,, ed. 9, 1896, 465 ("America"). — Oates, Cat. Birds' Eggs Brit. 



Mus., I, 1901, 101 (descr. eggs). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, 



III, 1902, 250 (syn.; geog. distr.; crit.). — Lowe, Ibis, 1907, 115, in text (crit.). 



— Lowe, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, XXI, 1908, no, in text (crit.). 

 Chamaepeleia passerina Reichenbach, Avium Syst. Nat., 1850, xxiv. 

 Peristera passerina Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Columba?, IV, 1873, 135, part 



("Antilles"). 

 Chama'epelia passerina Elliot, Stand. Nat. Hist., IV, 1885, 247, in text (southern 



North America, Mexico, and Central America to Brazil; habits). 

 Columbigallina passerina griseola (not of Spix) Hellmayr, Abhand. K. Bayer. 



Akad. Wiss., II Kl., XXII, 1906, 697, part ("Bogota," Colombia). 



Specific characters. — Male: above, including scapulars, tertiaries, 

 and upper tail-coverts, varying from plain drab gray to olive-brown; 

 crown and nape more or less cinereous or plumbeous, usually enclosing 

 a brown area; forehead, sides of head, and entire under parts some 

 shade of vinaceous, palest on the throat and abdomen; feathers of the 

 breast with dusky centers, and those of the breast and head all around 

 with darker margins, giving a squamate appearance; inner wing- 

 coverts and tertiaries marked on the outer webs with irregular spots of 

 glossy metallic steel-blue or violet; wings rufous chestnut, the remiges 

 more or less dusky brown or black at the tips and on the outer webs; 

 under wing-coverts rufous chestnut; tail black, the base more or less 

 grayish, the two middle rectrices resembling the back, and the outer- 

 most rectrices externally edged with white toward the tips. 



Female: resembles the male in general, but is duller and browner, 

 without the vinaceous color (normally) on the head and underneath, 



5 It is true that Hernandez (sometimes given as "Fernandez") in 1628 gave an 

 extended account of the "Cocotzin" of Mexico, which was copied almost verbatim 

 by Nieremberg in 1635, the latter author's bird being identified by Willughby with 

 his own "Turtur barbadensis minimus" or "Least Barbados Turtle." A careful 

 reading of Hernandez's description, however, leaves the exact application of his 

 name very uncertain indeed, despite the circumstantial nature of his account. 

 Moreover, Willughby himself seems to have copied from Nieremberg, but the 

 recognizable figure which he gives, together with the definite locality quoted, puts 

 his account on a somewhat better basis. 



(It is, however, proper to add that the writer has not been able to consult the 1628 

 edition of Hernandez in this connection, the description in question being from the 

 1651 edition of his Historice Animalium, page 24. Compare Coues, Birds of the 

 Colorado Valley, Bibliographical Appendix, 1878, 570.) 



