AVES PERISTERID/E. 



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The above description is based on material in the British Museum of 

 Natural History, as this form was not secured by the naturalists of the 

 expeditions sent out by Princeton University to Patagonia. 



Family Peristerid/E. 



Salvad. Cat. Birds, Brit. Mus. XXI. p. 372 {1893); Sharpe, Hand-List 

 Bds. I. p. 76 (1899). 



Subfamily ZENAIDIN^. 

 Salvad. t. c. p. 372 ; Sharpe, t. c. p. 76. 



Genus ZENAIDA Bonaparte. 



Type. 



Zenaida, Bp. Comp. List, p. 41 (1838); Salvadori, Cat. 

 Bds. Brit. Mus. XXI.' p. 379 (1893); Sharpe, Hand- 

 List Bds. I. p. 76 (1899) Z. amabilis. 



Stemirce7ia (subgen.) Rchnb. Tauben, I. p. 20 (1862). . . Z. stenitra. 



Platyptercena (subgen.) Rchnb. Tauben, I. p. 20 (1862). 



Z. pent hey ia ( = nijicaitda?). 



Geographical Range. — Florida Keys, throughout the Antilles, Yucatan, 

 and southward in South America throughout Chile and northern Patagonia. 



Zenaida auriculata (Des Murs). 



Palonia parda nia)icJiada, Azara, Apunt. I. p. 17 (1802). 



Coluniba anrita, part, Temm. Pig. et Gallin. I. pp, 247, 467 (1813). 



Cohnnba niacnlata, Vieill. (nee Gm.) Enc. Meth. I. p. 376 (1823); Burm. 

 La Plata Reise, I. p. 306 (1861). 



Colnniba meridionalis, King (nee Lath.) Zool. Journ. IV. p. 92 (1828: 

 Straits of Magellan); Scl. P. Z. S. 1867, pp. 330, 339 (Chile). 



Cohnnba anrita, Licht. (nee Temm.) Verz. Doubl. p. 66 (1823: Monte- 

 video); Darvv. Voy. "Beagle," Birds, p. 115 (1841). 



Zenaida anrita, Fraser (nee Temm.) P. Z. S. 1843, p. 115 (Chile); Hartl. 

 Ind. Azara, p. 20 (1847); i^- Naum. 1853, p. 21 (Valdivia); Leyb. 

 Excurs. Pamp. Argent, pp. 49,52 (1873); Macfarl. Ibis, 1887, p. 202 



