192 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



Twelve specimens : Bonda, Don Diego, Minca, and La Tigrera. 



The characters shown by this series are very uniform, showing no 

 approach to those of L. verreauxi occidcutalis of western Colombia. 

 Venezuelan specimens, on the other hand, average darker colored and 

 are possibly separable. 



The most abundant and generally distributed (within its altitudinal 

 range) of the entire family in the whole Santa Marta region. Al- 

 though Simons failed to record it on the southeast side of the Sierra 

 Nevada, the writer found it to be a very common bird there in July and 

 August, 1920, the conditions seeming to be ideal for its presence. It 

 is abundant over the whole of the coastal plain, from Dibulla on the 

 north to Fundacion on the south, ascending into the foothills up to 

 about 2,000 feet. Rarely is it found in the heavy forest, although pres- 

 ent in the " dry forest " of the foothills back of Santa Marta. Open 

 country, where shrubbery and waste land abound, is much more to its 

 liking. It is nearly always seen on the ground, although when flushed 

 it will usually first alight on a low tree. 



Twelve nests with eggs were sent in by Mr. Smith, all from Bonda, 

 March 30 to May 1, and September 10 (two sets), " apparently indicat- 

 ing two breeding periods, a spring and a fall period. 



" The nest, placed in the fork of a small tree or shrub, consists of a 

 quite substantial mass of small twigs, the amount varying considerably 

 in different nests. The eggs are nearly pure white, slightly glossy, and 

 vary considerably in size in different sets." 



115. Claravis pretiosa (Ferrari-Perez). 



Claravis pretiosa Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XIII, 1900, 12S (Minca, 



Cacagualito, and Mamatoco). 



Four specimens : Bonda and La Tigrera. 



After again going over our series of this species we are unable to 

 separate the South American birds under the name livida, the alleged 

 differences being too slight and too inconstant for recognition. Speci- 

 mens from western Colombia might possibly be sufficiently different, as 

 claimed by Dr. Chapman {Bulletin American Museum of Natural His- 

 tory. XXXVI, 1917, 210), but we prefer to follow Mr. Ridgway in 

 this case. 



Mr. Smith secured a few specimens of this dove at Bonda, Minca, 

 Cacagualito, and Mamatoco, and the writer shot a single one at La 



