Todd : A Revision oi mi Genus ChjEMepelia. 577 



specimens): wing, 74 80 (77.5); tail, 50 56 (53); exposed culmen, 

 10-1 1 1 10.5) ; tarsus, 15-16 (15. 1). 



Range. -South America, excepl higher parts, from Paraguay and 

 Peru northward, excluding western Colombia. (No record for 

 Bolivia.) 



Remarks. — Some variation is indicated, but the series available is 

 insufficient to determine whether it has any geographical significance. 

 A male from Chapada, Matto ('.rosso, Brazil (No. 58,646, Collection 

 American Museum of Natural History), is more pinkish vinaceous 

 below and rather darker above than the average, hut another specimen 

 from the same locality is not different. A skin from Lima, Peru 

 (Xo. 150,772, Collection U. S. National Museum), on the other hand, 

 is decidedly paler, and it is quite possible that a larger series might 

 show that the bird from west of the Andes is subspecifically separable, 

 although Messrs. Berlepsch and Stolzmann state that specimens from 

 Santa Ana in the Province of La Convencion, Peru, are little different 

 from skins from Roraima and Bahia. The few Colombian examples 

 I have seen, however, are clearly referable to the darker colored 

 Central American form about to be described. 



The synonymy of this species is even more involved than is that of 

 C. passerina, and I do not Hatter myself that I have fully succeeded 

 in clearing up the confusion, owing to the impossibility in so many 

 cases of consulting the actual specimens upon which the various records 

 were based. Brisson was apparently the first author to notice the 

 species, and although his figure is poor, his description is explicit and 

 evidently made at first-hand, as indicated by the two asterisks pre- 

 ceding the name. He quotes references to Willughby and Hernandez 

 as belonging here — erroneously it would now seem— but in any case 

 the sole basis of the species is his description, w r hich Linnaeus cited 

 exclusively in establishing his name Columba minuta. Brisson said 

 that his bird came from Santo Domingo, which was an error into which 

 numerous subsequent authors fell as regards this species, which is 

 now known to be confined to the continent. Some authors even 

 went so far as to ascribe the species to certain of the other West Indian 

 Islands. 



Columba grisea of Bonnaterre. 1702. was the next name applied to 

 the species, being based on the "Cocotzin de Surinam" of Holandre, 

 and Messrs. Berlepsch and Hartert have accordingly substituted 

 Cayenne as the type locality for the species, admittedly on the basis 



