586 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



olive-brown, more or less tinged with cinnamon vinous, especially 

 on the rump and upper tail-coverts; crown with little or no plumbeous 

 tinge; wings and tail as in the male, but duller and with paler, some- 

 times nearly white, edgings; below dull brownish, more or less decid- 

 edly vinous-tinged, and the middle of the abdomen, under tail-coverts, 

 and outer rectrices (externally) often more or less whitish; "iris brown 

 with fine silver ring" (H. H. Smith, on label). 



In juvenal dress (not seen by the writer) the species is said to lack 

 the black spots on the wings (fide Burmeister). 



Measurements. — Male: wing, 86-91 (average, 89); tail, 62-70 (66); 

 exposed culmen, 11-12.5 (12); tarsus, 16-17. 5 (i7)< Female (four 

 specimens): wing, 84-90 (87); tail, 60-64 (61); exposed culmen, 12- 

 12.5 (12. 1); tarsus, 16-17 ( IO )- 



Range. — South America, east of the Andes, from northern Argen- 

 tina and Paraguay north through Bolivia and Brazil to eastern Peru 

 and French Guiana. 



Remarks. — This Dove was first noticed by Azara in 1805, under the 

 vernacular name " Paloma de la Roxiza," and three years later was 

 formally described by Temminck and figured by Madame Knip in 

 their great work on the Pigeons, wherein it appears as Columba tal- 

 pacoti, the type being still preserved in the Paris Museum. In 1825 

 it was re-described by Spix as Columbina cabocolo, which is the basis 

 of Swainson's name Chcemepelia cinnamomina, applied in 1837. 

 Bonaparte overlooked or ignored Temminck's name, and called the 

 species Talpacotia cinnamomea, after Swainson, and described the fe- 

 male as another species, Talpacotia godina. The synonymy is thus 

 somewhat confused. 



C. talpacoti seems to be quite constant in characters throughout its 

 extensive range. It has been attributed to Venezuela, but this is 

 almost certainly an error, at least so far as specimens and published 

 records for that country are concerned, which pertain to C. rufipennis 

 instead. 



Chaemepelia rufipennis rufipennis (Bonaparte). 



ChamcBpelia talpicoti (lapsus) (not Columba talpacoti Temminck) Jardine, Ann. and 

 Mag. Nat. Hist., (2), XX, 1847, 374 (Tobago). 



Talpacotia rufipennis Bonaparte, Consp. Avium, II, 1854, 79 (Carthagena, 

 Columbia; orig. descr.; type in collection Paris Museum?). — Bonaparte, 

 Compt. Rend., XL, 1855, 22 (Carthagena, Colombia; diag.), 220. — Bur- 

 meister, Syst. Ueber. Thiere Bras., Vogel, II, 1856, 297 (Colombia; diag.; 



