l8 BIRDS OF THE REPUBLIC OF PANAMA PART 2 



meters at Laguna on the base of Cerro Mali) ; and eastern San Bias 

 (Puerto Obaldia). 



In Darien, Festa collected a specimen at Punta de Sabana on the 

 lower Tuira in August 1895, 1 secured 1 at Boca de Paya on February 

 22, 1959, Richardson shot 3 on the Rio Tacarcuna below Cerro Mali 

 on March 3 and April 14, 1915, and Galindo has forwarded 1 taken at 

 La Laguna on the same mountain on June 3, 1963. Above Puerto 

 Obaldia on March 18, 1963, I shot 2 from a small flock that came to 

 trees above a gravel bar in a small forest quebrada, evidently to drink. 



While berlepschi in color is closely similar to Columba s. subvinacea, 

 it differs decidedly in size. At Pucro, Darien, in February 1964, I 

 heard a dove calling in high forest that I was not able to shoot, but 

 that I believed to have been berlepschi. The note was a plaintive whoo- 

 oo-a hoo hoo, a soft call, different from my recollection of the strongly 

 accented song of subvinacea. It seems probable that berlepschi may 

 prove to be specifically distinct. It ranges from eastern Darien and 

 San Bias through western Colombia into western Ecuador. 



ZENAIDA ASIATICA AUSTRALIS (Peters): White-winged Dove; 

 Paloma Aliblanca 



Melopelia asiatica australis Peters, Auk, vol. 30, no. 3, July 3, 1913, p. 372. (Cerro 

 Santa Maria, Guanacaste, Costa Rica.) 



Of medium size, with a prominent white band on the wing. 



Description. — Length 275-290 mm. ; 12 rectrices. Adult male, crown 

 and hindneck purple-drab to dark fawn color, with the forehead 

 grayer ; back, scapulars, wing coverts, and inner secondaries light to 

 dark buffy brown ; upper tail coverts and middle tail feathers similar ; 

 distal wing coverts mainly white, forming a broad, conspicuous streak 

 from the bend of the wing to the end of the greater coverts ; alula, 

 primary coverts, primaries and distal secondaries black, the primaries 

 edged narrowly with white, and the secondaries tipped with white; 

 rectrices, except central pair, gray above, except for a black sub- 

 terminal band and broad tip of white ; central pair grayish brown ; 

 sides of head, neck, and upper breast wood brown, the throat paler; 

 sides of neck glossed with reddish or greenish bronze; a suborbital 

 spot of black ; lower breast, sides, under wing coverts, abdomen, and 

 under tail coverts gray. 



Female, similar, but usually somewhat duller colored. 



Immature, grayer than adults, with no metallic gloss on neck. 



Males taken near Puerto Aguadulce in January and March had the 



