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Chamapelia griseola Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Avium Neotrop., 1873, 133, part 



(Colombia to Panama). 



Columbigallina minuta l>> bois, Syn. Avium, II. 1902, 764, pari (southern Mexico 

 .nut ( entral America). Ihwi-.k ami Bangs, Hull. Mm-. ( <>mi>. Z06I., XL\ I, 

 1906, -m \ (Savanna oi Panama). 



Chamepelia minuta Bangs, Auk, XXIV, 1907, 288, 292 (Paso Rial. Costa Rica; 

 ig. .li-tr.). 



Chamepelia minuta Dearborn, Field Mus. Orn. Scries, I, 1907, 80 (Los Amates, 

 Guatemala). — Carriker, Ann. Carnegie Mus., VI, 1910, 399 (Buenos Aires, 

 Costa Rica; geog. distr.; habits). 



Chamepelia minuta RoDRir.riv, An. Mus. Nac, Salvador, IV, 1910, 282 (Guate- 

 mala). 



Type, No. 29,061, Collection Carnegie Museum, adult male: 

 Buenos Aires, Costa Rica, August 29, 1907; M. A. Carriker, Jr. 



Subspccific characters. — Similar in general to C. minuta minuta 

 (Linnaeus'), but decidedly darker throughout in coloration, the male 

 more purplish vinaceous below and on the wings; upper parts dark 

 olive-brown; gray area of crown and nape darker, almost slate-gray; 

 under tail-coverts with much less white. Female also much darker 

 than tin- same sex of C. in. minuta, more olivaceous above, and deeper 

 brownish (broccoli brown) below; the under tail-coverts edged with 

 tawny brown or dull buffy, instead of white. Even in juvenal plum- 

 age this form averages darker. "Iris pink [in both sexes]; bill dirty 

 olive" or "dark olive-horn; feet flesh-color." (M. A. Carriker, Jr.) 



Measurements. — Male: wing, 71-78 (average, 74); tail, 48-55 (50.5); 

 exposed culmen, 10-11 (10.6); tarsus, 15-16 (15.6). Female: wing, 

 71-79 (74); ta il. 47 _ 5 2 (5°); exposed culmen, 10-11 (10.7); tarsus, 

 15-16 (154)- 



Range. — From west-central Colombia ("Bogota") north through 

 Panama to southwestern Costa Rica; reappearing in Guatemala, and 

 thence extending into British Honduras and through southeastern 

 Mexico to central Vera Cruz. (No records for Nicaragua, Honduras, 

 or Salvador.) 



Remarks. — Some females are much deeper brown below than 

 others; the difference seems to be purely individual, however. Two 

 females from Mexico differ in having the under tail-coverts much 

 paler, nearly white. If No. 28,944, Collection Carnegie Museum 

 (Buenos Aires, Costa Rica, August 21, 1907), is correctly sexed, it 

 indicates that females occasionally approach males in being tinged 

 below with vinaceous, as in other species of this genus. Both sexes 

 in fresh plumage are glossed above with dark olive-green. In juvenal 



