580 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



dress this gloss is lacking, the contour feathers are edged and tipped 

 with paler, and there is much rusty and buffy edging to the feathers 

 of the wings, while the spots on the latter are obsolescent and not 

 glossy. As in C. passerina, there is much individual variation affecting 

 the amount of rufous chestnut on the primaries externally, and the 

 extent of the brown area on the crown. The latter is occasionally 

 obsolete, the entire crown being dark plumbeous or slate-gray. The 

 greater coverts and inner secondaries are frequently more or less 

 edged with white externally, particularly in females; this may possibly 

 indicate immaturity. 



This darker form of C. minuta includes all the Mexican and Central 

 American specimens, as well as those seen from Colombia, as far 

 south as "Bogota." The characters upon which it is based are more 

 marked and constant than those differentiating C. rufipennis rufi- 

 pennis from C. r. eluta, and it is odd that the form should have been so 

 long unrecognized. It would appear to be most numerous in Panama, 

 where it takes the place of C. passerina neglecta. Whether the gap 

 in its range to the northward of Costa Rica is real or only apparent is 

 an interesting question; if the former, it is quite possible that the 

 Mexican bird may prove to be subspecifically separable. 



Chaemepelia buckleyi Sclater and Salvin. 



Chamcepelia buckleyi Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1877, 21 (Santa 

 Rita, Ecuador; types in collection British Museum; crit.). — Berlepsch and 

 Taczanowski, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1883, 537, 575 (Yaguachi and Guaya- 

 quil, Ecuador). — Taczanowski and Berlepsch, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1885, 

 in (Yaguachi, Ecuador), 122 (Guayaquil, Ecuador; Tumbez, Peru). — Taczan- 

 owski, Orn. Perou, III, 1886, 245 (Lechugal, Peru; descr.; syn.), Tables, 518. — 

 Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XXI, 1893, 484, pi. 10, fig. 1 (Santa Rita, 

 Ecuador; descr.; syn.). — Sharpe, Hand-List Birds, I, 1899, 82 (Ecuador; Peru). 

 — Salvadori and Festa, Boll. Mus. Torino, XV, no. 368, 1900, 35 (Babahoyo, 

 Vinces, and Balzar, Ecuador). 



Columbigallina buckleyi Dubois, Syn. Avium, II, 1902, 764 (Ecuador; Peru; syn.). 



Columbina buckleyi Brabourne and Chubb, Birds S. Am., I, 1912, 18 (western 

 Ecuador). 



Description. — Adult male: "upper parts vinous grey; forehead, 

 sides of the head, and underparts vinous, paler (almost white) on the 

 forehead and throat, somewhat greyer on the abdomen and under tail- 

 coverts; velvety black spots on the outer webs on some of the upper 

 wing-coverts, of the scapulars, and of the inner secondaries or tertials; 

 bastard wing, primary-coverts, and quills (with the exception of the 



