MAy 14, 1900 VoL. I, PP. 107-109 
PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
NEW ENGLAND ZOOLOGICAL CLUB 
A NEW DOVE FROM THE SIERRA NEVADA DE 
SANTA MARTA, COLOMBIA. 
BY OUTRAM BANGS. 
In the Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 
Vol. XII, p. 157, August 10, 1898, I recorded, as Geotrygon 
finearis, a quail-dove taken by Mr. W. W. Brown, Jr., at Pueblo 
Viejo, at Sooo feet altitude in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. 
This was done without comparing the skin with Bogota specimens, 
and therefore with some doubt as to its really being that form. 
Since then Mr. Brown has taken three additional specimens — 
two at Chirua, 7000 feet, and one at La Concepcion, 3000 feet, 
altitude. 
For a long time I could find no Bogota specimens; but quite 
recently Mr. Witmer Stone wrote me that the collection of the 
Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia contained four 
examples of G. /énearts from Bogota, and kindly offered to com- 
pare my birds with them —the Academy’s specimens being part 
of the Wilson collection, which, by the terms of the bequest, 
cannot be lent. The result of Mr. Stone’s comparison shows the 
Santa Marta Mountains bird to be at least subspecifically different 
from true G. Zimearts. It is much darker brown throughout, the 
back being dark burnt umber and olive brown shades, instead of 
reddish brown, and the under parts much darker brown. The 
new form may be known as 
