46 BULLETIN 117, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



(156a) COLUMBA PLUMBEA PROPINQUA Cory. 



Columba plumbed, propinqua Cory, Field Mus. Pub. 182, 1915, p. 205 (Moyobamba,^ 



Peru). 

 Columba plumbea andicola Chubb, Ibis, 1919, p. 33 (Central Peru to Bolivia). 



A male from the Rio Comberciato and another from Santo Domingo,, 

 southeastern Peru, agree and apparently are not separable from a 

 specimen from Buena Vista, eastern Colombia, labeled by Ridgway 

 O. plumbea propinqua Cory. Mr. Chubb appears to have overlooked 

 this race in his remarks on the forms of this species ^\ as well as late 

 publications on the same subject by Ridgway ^^ and Chapman.^' 



Rio Comberciato, 1. 



(162) ZENATOA AURICULATA FALLENS Bangs and Noble. 



Zenaida auriculata pallens Bangs and Noble, Auk, 1918, p. 446 (Huancabamba, 

 Peru). 



This wide-ranging species is found from the Tropical up to the Tem- 

 perate Zone. Specimens from the coast and tableland, both in Peru 

 and Ecuador, are apparently alike and hence should be referred to 

 this recently described race, the relationships of which with Z. 

 hypoleuca Bonaparte remain to be determined. On the other hand, 

 three males from the Cauca Valley, Colombia, agree with an equal 

 number from Chile in having the chin scarcely lighter than the 

 breast, the color of the latter extending backward to the vent with 

 but little buff. The lower tail coverts in the Cauca birds, however, 

 are more vinaceous than in those from Chile. Some Bolivian birds 

 (Prov. Cochabamba) resemble Chilean examples; others are like 

 those from Peru. Two adult males from Buenos Aires are paler, 

 more glaucous below than any of those above mentioned, while a 

 male from Chapada, Matto Grosso, Brazil, agrees in color and size 

 with two others from Fernando Noronha off the coast of Brazil.^^ 



Unquestionably this species may properly be divided into several 

 races, but their satisfactory definition requires more material than 

 is at present available. 



Santa Ana, 1; Ollantaytambo, 2; Huaracondo, 2; Cuzco, 1; 

 Pisac, 6. 



(170) GYMNOPELIA CECILIAE CECILIAE (Lesson). 



Columba (Chamoepelia) cedliae Lesson, Echo du Monde Sav., Jan. 12, 1845, col. 



8 (Peru). 

 Chamaepelia erythrothorax Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1869. p. 155 



(Tinta). 



Found by us in the arid Temperate and Puna Zones. It is inter- 

 esting to observe that specimens from La Raya are referable to the 

 present form, while a series from Tirapata, 60 miles farther south^ 



M Ibis, 1919, pp. 31-33. 



M Birds of Middle and North America, vol. 7, 1916, pp. 324, 325. 



2» Bull. Araer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 3f>, 1917, pp. 203-206. 



»< Zenaida auriculata noronha Chubb (Gray MS.), Ibis, 1919, p. 36. 



