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the effect of captivity, as Count Salvadori has observed (Cat. Birds, Brit. Mus. 
xxi. p. 486) that an allied species Chamepelia talpacoti, when kept as a cage bird, 
often becomes wholly or partially melanistic. 
ridgwayi, Lichm. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xviii. pp. 660, 661 (1896). 
One. Venezuela (Cumana). 
** Upper parts (except forehead, forecrown, wing-coverts, and primaries) including 
middle pair of rectrices, brown—between broccoli and hair brown—the feathers 
all tipped with dull greenish or bluish black, narrowest on nape and hind- 
crown; primaries brownish black externally, dark hazel on inner webs and at 
base of outer webs, appearing on exposed portion of wing as a small irregular 
spot, just beyond primary coverts; secondaries dark brownish black, narrowly 
edged with white on the outer web; feathers of wing-coverts mainly white on 
outer web, brown on inner web, and broadly tipped with black ; primary 
coverts and alula, dull black ; forehead, forecrown, superciliary line, and sides of 
head pale pinkish white, lighter on lores and ear-coverts ; the feathers mostly 
narrowly edged with black ; thruat white, passing into pale vinaceous on breast, 
sides of breast, and sides of neck, the feathers on breast with faint indications 
of black edges, more pronounced on lower part and on sides, remainder of upper 
parts white, with a wash of pale fawn colour on sides, all the feathers edged 
with white, these edges broadest on the lower breast and sides of body. Five 
outer pairs of rectrices black basally, the terminal part white; on the outer 
feather the white occupies about 1:60 inches; this decreases by ‘steps’ to the 
fifth, which has only a slight mottling of white at the end. Under wing-coyerts 
externally chestnut, the feathers with black tips, the inner part wholly black ; 
axillaries black. Wing, 3°82; tail, 390; tarsus, 0°68; exposed culmen, 0 60 
inches.” (Richmond). Habitat. Margarita Island. Venezuela. 
A specimen from Cumana, Venezuela, when compared with two from Bahia, seems 
to differ in the greater breadth of the black markings on the upper surface, and 
in the more powerful bill ; in the former respect, however, it is nearly approached 
by three specimens which, in the absence of any locality, we think it safer to 
leave with S. squamosa. 
inca (Less.). Six. 29. Texas (Laredo, June). Mexico (Bolanos). © Gua- 
temala, March. 
GYMNOPELIA, Sclat. & Salv. 
erythrothorax (Meyen). Two. Bolivia. 
PERISTERINA. 
COLUMBULA, Bp. 
picui, Zemm. Four. Chili. Bolivia. 
CHAMZPELIA, Swains. 
passerina (Linn.). Nineteen. ¢, 29. Bermuda. United States (Florida ; 
Texas, Brownsville). West Indies (Jamaica ; Trinidad). Venezuela (Cum- 
ana). Brazil (Para). 
Our material does not admit of our classifying this species under the numerous 
subspecific names — terrestris, Chap. ; pallescens, Baird; socorroensis, Ridg. ; 
bahamensis, Maynard ; insularis, Ridg. ; perpalida, Hart.—adopted by American 
ornithologists. 
minuta (Linn.). Five. Brazil. 
cruziana (V’Or).). Four. Ecuador. Peru. 
buckleyi, Sclat. & Salv. 
talpacoti (Zvmm.). Thirteen. 3¢. Brazil. Bolivia. 
No. 11, 6 (= 3594 Lord Derby’s Mus.), an aviary bird, is partially melanistic. 
rufipennis, @./’.Gr. Three. Venezuela (Cumana). Tobago. 
UROPELIA, Bp. 
campestris (Spiz). Four. Brazil. Bolivia. 
No. 1 (= 3616 Lord Derby’s Mus.), from Brazil, was collected by Natterer. 
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