Todd-Carriker: Birds of Santa Marta Region, Colombia. 195 



Eighteen specimens : Rio Hacha, Dibulla, and Gaira. 



These are indistinguishable from specimens from San Esteban and 

 the Caura River, Venezuela. There is some variation in the intensity 

 of the squamate markings above and below. 



In common with Mr. Hellmayr (Noz'itates Zoologiccc, XV, 1908, 

 92), we fail to see why Lesson's name squammata should not be used 

 for this species. 



This dove belongs properly to the arid Tropical Zone, which invades 

 our region from the northeast. It is mainly confined to the Goajira 

 Peninsula, running along the coast as far as Dibulla at least, and ex- 

 tending around the Sierra Nevada to the southward, as shown by 

 Simons' record for Valencia, which the writer has recently confirmed. 

 It is primarily a bird of the semi-arid and semi-desert regions, as al- 

 ready said. There is one record for Gaira, however, and in Decem- 

 ber, 1918, three individuals were seen beside the road about a mile 

 from Santa Marta. They were observed during that month on several 

 occasions, always near the same place, but since then have not been 

 noted. It is rarely observed perching off the ground, except when go- 

 ing to roost for the night. 



Zenaida ruficauda ruficauda Bonaparte. 



Zenaida pentheria Bonaparte, Consp. Avium, II, 1854, 84 ("Santa Marta"; 



orig. descr. ; type in coll. Paris Mus.). — Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., XL, 



1S55, 98 (descr.), 220 (in list of species). 

 Zenaida ruficauda Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XXI, 1893, 387 (crit. on 



type). 



Bonaparte says that his type of Zenaida pentheria was a Santa Marta 

 specimen collected by Fontainier, and Count Salvadori, who has examined the 

 specimen in question, refers it to Z. ruficauda, remarking on its large size. 

 Dr. Chapman has shown that typical ruficauda is a form of the Temperate 

 Zone, confined (so far as known) to the Eastern Andes of Colombia, and 

 while, in common with other species of that zone, it might reappear in the 

 Santa Marta region, it is unlikely that Fontainier secured it there, judging by 

 analogy. At any rate, no other collector has ever met with a Zenaida in this 

 region, so that it seems best to relegate the record to the hypothetical list 

 for the present. 



119. Crossophthalmus gymnophthalmos (Temminck). 



Columba gymnophthahna Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XIII, 1900, 129 



(Taganga ; crit.).- — Hartert, Nov. Z06L, XXIII, 1916, 341 (Santa Marta 

 region, fide Todd and Ridgway). 



Crossophthalmus gymnophtahnos Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, 



