BIRDS FROM BRAZIL AND SOUTHERN VENEZUELA—FRIEDMANN 399 
This is the species that used to be called rujina. The material 
available for study is not sufficient to enable us to come to any in- 
dependent decision as to the validity of andersoni Cory, and we 
follow Hellmayr and Conover, the latest reviewers of the group 
(Catalogue of the birds of the Americas, pt. 1, No. 1, 1942, p. 455) 
in considering it a synonym of cayennensis. Some years earlier 
Pinto (Rev. Mus. Paulista, vol. 22, 1938, p. 157) came to the same 
conclusion, although he used the name rujfina. Peters (Check list of 
birds of the world, vol. 3, 1937, p. 67), on the other hand, considers 
anderson, a valid form. If future material should substantiate this 
race the present series would have to be referred to it. In the original 
description Cory (Publ. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Orn. Ser., vol. 1, No. 
7, 1913, p. 294-295) states that andersoni has the lower abdomen and 
under tail coverts slate gray, ‘‘nearly as in sylvestris.’”? This is not 
true of the present series. 
Recently Gyldenstolpe (Kungl. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Handl., vol. 
22, No. 3, 1945, p. 44-45) has found that sylvestris occurs north to the 
north side of the middle stretches of the Amazon, but it clearly does 
not extend up the Rio Negro. 
COLUMBA SUBVINACEA PURPUREOTINCTA Ridgway: Purple-tinted Ruddy Pigeon 
Columba purpureotincta Ripaway, Proc. U. 8S. Nat. Mus., vol. 10, 1888, p. 594, 
footnote (Demerara, British Guiana). 
SPECIMENS COLLECTED 
1 ad. o, 1 ad. 9, Brazil, Sio Gabriel, Rio Negro, January 3-5, 1931. 
1 ad. o, Venezuela, Brazo Casiquiare, Raudal San Sebastian, February 1, 1931. 
lad. o, Venezuela, Brazo Casiquiare, Playa de Candela, February 8, 1931. 
1 ad. o, Venezuela, San Antonio, Upper Orinoco, March 1, 1931. 
1 ad. o, Venezuela, Puerto Ayacucho, Rio Orinoco, May 20, 1931. 
1-, Venezuela, Ciudad Bolfvar, December 8, 1929. 
The example collected on May 20 was noted as having the gonads 
active and enlarged. 
It appears that Hellmayr and Conover (Catalogue of the birds of 
the Americas, pt. 1, No. 1, 1942, p. 467) are justified in placing 
purpureotincta as a race of C. subvinacea. 
The Ciudad Bolivar specimen shows no approach to the description 
of C. s. peninsularis Chapman and appears to be the northernmost 
Venezuelan record for purpureotincta. Chapman’s race peninsularis 
is said to be darker vinaceous below and more reddish, less olivaceous 
on the wings, back, and tail than purpureotincta, but the Ciudad 
Bolivar specimen reverses this if anything when compared with the 
rest of the series. Hellmayr and Conover record undiluted purpureo- 
tincta as far down the Orinoco as Maipures, but the present material 
shows that this race continues at least as far east as Ciudad Bolivar. 
