578 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



of this author. Peristera chalcostigma Reichenbach, 1 851, is a name 

 based on two very poor figures, while Chamcepelia pumila Lichten- 

 stein, 1854, and Chamcepelia rachidialis Schiff are nomina nuda. 



Temminck and some of the authors who followed him seem to have 

 correctly identified Linnaeus' Columba minuta, but in 1854 Bonaparte, 

 "who is responsible for much that is unfortunate in ornithological 

 nomenclature," fell into the grave error of identifying it as the young 

 of C. passerina. At the same time he committed another blunder by 

 taking Columbina griseola Spix, which is actually a form of C. pas- 

 serina, as the earliest name for the present species — "a wholly errone- 

 ous proceeding, by which he supplanted the well-founded minuta 

 Linn, by a wholly new griseola Bonap. (nee Spix). * * * Yet Bona- 

 parte was followed in this false step by most later ornithologists." 

 Not only that, but he re-described the species under the name Chamce- 

 pelia amazilia, based on a specimen from Peru obtained by the Castel- 

 nau expedition. Judging from the description this is based on an 

 individual variation of C. minuta, but in case the Peruvian bird 

 should prove worthy of separation the name will of course be available. 

 With two names for the same species in use, one of them really be- 

 longing to an entirely distinct bird, and neither of them correct, the 

 resultant confusion in the literature is exhibited in the table of 

 synonymy appearing above. 



Chaemepelia minuta elaeodes subsp. nov. 



Chamcepelia minuta (?)Reichenbach, Syn. Avium, Columbariae, 1847, pi. 256, 

 figs. 1422-3. — Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XXI, 1893, 481, part (Atoyac, 

 Vera Cruz; Retalhuleu, Guatemala; Panama; Bogota, Colombia). — Sharpe, 

 Hand-List Birds, I, 1899, 82, part (Mexico to Panama; Colombia). — Salvin 

 and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, III, 1902, 252, excl. South American 

 references (Mexico; Guatemala; Panama; Mexican and Central American 

 references; descr.; crit.). 



Chcemepelia amazilia (not of Bonaparte) Gray, List Birds Brit. Mus., Columbae, 

 1856, 50, part (New Granada). 



Chamcepelia amazilia Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1856, 30 (Bogota, Colom- 

 bia). — Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1864, 370 (Panama, ex 

 Lawrence). — Gray, Hand-List Birds, II, 1870, 240, part (New Granada). — 

 (?)Wyatt, Ibis, 1871, 383 (Ocana and Herradura, Colombia). — (?)Berlepsch, 

 Journ. f. Orn., XXXII, 1884, 319 (Ocana and Herradura, Colombia, ex Wyatt). 



Chamcepelia granatina (not of Bonaparte) Lawrence, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., 

 VII, 1862, 333 (Panama Railroad, Pacific side [original specimens examined]). 



Peristera griseola (not Columbina griseola Spix) Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Columbae, 

 IV, 1873, 135, part ("Terre ferme"; Guatemala; syn.). 



