194 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



of the Sierra Nevada lying at altitudes of from 2,000 to 3,000 feet. 

 Farther south in Colombia it ranges still higher up. 



Mr. Smith sent in " five nests, with two eggs each, collected at 

 Bonda, April 9 and June 2, 3, and 5." They are similar to those of C. 

 passerina albivitta. 



117. Chamaepelia passerina albivitta Bonaparte. 



Chamcrpelia passerina (not Colitmba passerina Linnaeus) Wyatt, Ibis, 1871, 



383 (Santa Marta). 

 Coluinbigallina passerina pallescens (not Chamapelia pallescens Baird) Bangs, 



Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, XII, 1898, 132 ("Santa Marta"). 

 Columbigallina passerina granatina (not Chamcepelia granatina Bonaparte ? ) 



Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XIII, 1900, 12S (Bonda) ; XXI, 1905, 



280 (Bonda; descr. nest and eggs). 

 Chcemepelia passerina albivitta Todd, Ann. Carnegie Mus., VIII, 1913, 551, 



597 (Santa Marta localities and references; crit.). — Ridgway, Bull. U. S. 



Nat. Mus., No. 50, VII, 1916, 408 (Santa Marta localities and references). 



Fourteen specimens : Bonda, Mamatoco, Gaira, Dibulla, and Rio 

 Ffacha. 



Our specimens agree with those from Cartagena, the type-locality of 

 this race, in pale coloration, sharply bicolor bill, etc. 



This little dove is distributed over the whole of the lowlands from 

 Fundacion to Rio Ffacha, entering also the Rio Rancheria-Rio Cesar 

 Valley, but is more numerous in the semi-arid portions, although not 

 very abundant anywhere in this region. It is strictly a species of the 

 littoral Tropical Zone, seldom going above the coastal plain, so that the 

 specimen collected by Mr. Brown, and purporting to have been taken 

 on the Paramo de Macotama, as recorded (I.e.) by the senior author, 

 is certainly incorrectly labeled. There is one specimen in the collec- 

 tion of the American Museum of Natural History which was taken as 

 high as Minca (altitude 2,000 feet). Mr. Smith sent in three sets of 

 eggs to the same institution, taken at Bonda on April 23 and 29, and 

 June 3. " The nests consist of a mass of small twigs and plant stems, 

 placed in the fork of a branch or shrub. The eggs are clear white, and 

 measure about 21 X !6." 



118. Scardafella squammata ridgwayi Richmond. 



Scardafella squamosa (not Columba squamosa Bonnaterre) Salvin and God- 

 man, Ibis, 1880, 178 (Valencia). — -Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XXI, 

 1893, 464 (Valencia). — Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XIII, 1900, 129 

 (Salvin and Godman's reference). 



