196 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



VII, 1916, 321 (Taganga, Gaira, and Donjaca, in range; meas. ; Allen's ref- 

 erence). 



Additional records: Cienaga (Univ. Mich. Exp.). 



Three specimens: Gaira and Donjaca. 



Besides the above we have examined a specimen from Barranquilla. 

 Colombia, two from Tocuyo, Venezuela, and five from Curaqao. 

 There is no constant difference between specimens from the latter local- 

 ity and those from the mainland, although individual, age, and sexual 

 variation is obvious. The proper habitat of this species, which is still 

 very rare in collections, was discovered by Dr. Hartert, in 1892, to be 

 the Dutch West Indies, and in combating the use of the name Columba 

 corcnsis Jacquin for it he undertook to show that it was unknown on 

 the mainland. That this is not the case is proved by the specimens in 

 our collection, which had just been duly recorded by Mr. Ridgway, 

 while the Taganga record had been published by Dr. Allen in 1900. On 

 calling Dr. Hartert's attention to this matter he at once published a 

 correction. But the possibility that Dr. Hartert may still be in error 

 regarding the application of Jacquin's name is increased by reason of 

 the fact that the U. S. National Museum has recently received a muti- 

 lated but easily identifiable specimen of the present species from the 

 Coro Peninsula in Venezuela. We prefer to retain Temminck's name, 

 however, on the principle that a certainty is better than an uncertainty. 



Mr. Smith sent in a single specimen from Taganga. The only place 

 on the west coast where the writer has seen this bird is along the beach 

 between Gaira and Donjaca, where the country is very dry, with a 

 great deal of giant cactus growing. It is doubtless found along the 

 coast as far as the mouth of the Rio Piedras in small numbers. It was 

 not uncommon at Rio Hacha and Fonseca, on the edge of the arid Goa- 

 jira Peninsula. In Venezuela and Curasao it occurs only in arid sec- 

 tions where giant cacti abound, being strictly a bird of the arid Trop- 

 ical Zone. 



The University of Michigan Expedition obtained a pair at Cie- 

 naga, August 23, 1 91 3. 



120. Lepidcenas speciosa (Gmelin). 



Columba speciosa Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XIII, 1900, 129 (Bonda). 



— Carriker, Ann. Carnegie Mus., VI, 1910, 392 (Santa Marta [region] ; 



crit.). 

 Lcpida->ias speciosa Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, VII. 1916, 316 



