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griseola, the only locality assigned being the forests of the Amazon 

 Ki\ er. Spix's t> pe was a young bird, and largely on this account hi:? 

 name was nol recognized as applying to a bird of the C. passerina 



group, Bonaparte identifying it with what is now known as C. minuta, 

 and being followed in this erroneous identification by nearly all 

 subsequent writers. In 1887, however, Counl von Berlepsch sug- 

 gested that this was probably an error, and in 1906 Mr. Hellmayr 

 from an examination of Spix's type fully confirmed this conclusion. 

 The case has been very fully discussed by Dr. J. A. Allen, with refer- 

 ence to its bearing on the proper name of the present genus. 



The distribution of the present subspecies seems to be as yet 

 imperfectly worked out. It was found by Natterer and other travel- 

 lei^ in the Amazon valley, and has been traced around the eastern 

 extremity of Brazil, being reported from several localities on the 

 coast, as far south at least as Bahia. The probabilities are that it is 

 not confined to the coast, but there is a vast area of country in central 

 Brazil for which there are as yet no records. A single record from 

 Cochabamba, Bolivia, which I refer doubtfully to the present form, 

 is the only one for the far interior of the continent which I have 

 found. I have not been able to discover upon what authority Count 

 Salvadori gives it as an inhabitant of Paraguay, as in reply to an 

 inquiry he writes that he does not now remember how he came to 

 that conclusion, although he feels pretty sure that he had reasons at 

 the time for making the statement. Dr. von Ihering also attributes 

 this species to Paraguay, but it is safe to say he was quoting from 

 Count Salvadori. In the third edition of the American Ornithologists' 

 Union Check List of North American Birds, 191 o, page 150, the range 

 of Chamepelia passerina is given as extending to southern Brazil, 

 but Prof. Wells W. Cooke writes me that this statement was based 

 on a misapprehension as to the position of one of the localities cited by 

 Natterer. 



Chsemepelia passerina albivitta Bonaparte. 



Chamapelia passerina (not Columba passerina Linnaeus) (?) Lichtenstein, Nom. 

 Avium Mus. Zool. Berol., 1854, 82, part (Colombia).— (?)Schott, Rept. Lieut. 

 Michler's Exp. to Isthmus of Darien, 1861, 247, in text, part (Tierra Bomba and 

 Bay of Tesco, near Cartagena, Colombia; habits). — Wyatt, Ibis, 1871, 383 

 (Santa Marta, Colombia). — Berlepsch, Journ. f. Orn.. XXXII, 1884, 317 

 (Bucaramanga, Colombia). — Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Xat. Mus., VII, 1884, 177 

 (Curacao). — Peters, Journ. f. Orn., XL, 1892, 113, 115 (Curacao; habit:-).— 



