BIRDS FROM BRAZIL AND SOUTHERN VENEZUELA—FRIEDMANN 4(] 
SPECIMENS COLLECTED 
lad. &, lim. o&, Venezuela, San Antonio, Upper Orinoco, March 2-5, 1931. 
lad. 9, Venezuela, Puerto Ayacucho, Rio Orinoco, January 6, 1930. 
The two males are, respectively, adult and immature, but not as 
indicated on the labels. By some strange trick of fate, the adult bird 
is the one marked immature, and vice versa. 
COLUMBIGALLINA TALPACOTI RUFIPENNIS (Bonaparte): Red-winged Talpacoti Dove 
Chamaepelia rufipennis BONAPARTE, Compt. Rend. Acad. Sci. Paris, vol. 40, 
No. 1, Jan. 1855, p. 22 (environs of Cartagena, Colombia). 
SPECIMEN COLLECTED 
1 ad. o’, Brazil, Cucuhy, Rio Negro, February 1, 1930. 
This specimen has the outer web of the outer primary entirely dusky 
brown but is otherwise like typical rufipennis. Cucuhy must be close 
to the southern limit of the range of the race. 
LEPTOTILA VERREAUXI BRASILIENSIS (Bonaparte): Guianan White-fronted Dove 
Peristera brasiliensis BONAPARTE, Compt. Rend. Acad. Sci. Paris, vol. 48, No. 20, 
Nov. 17, 1856, p. 945 (no locality given). 
SPECIMENS COLLECTED 
2 ad. o’, Venezuela, Puerto Ayacucho, Rio Orinoco, May 12-14, 1931. 
1 ad. 9, Venezuela, Soledad, November 29, 1929. 
All these examples are darker, less brownish above, when compared 
with L. v. verreauxi from Panama and western Costa Rica, and also 
have the hind neck and back grayer. 
LEPTOTILA RUFAXILLA DUBUSI Bonaparte: Dubus’s Gray-fronted Dove 
Leptoptila dubusi Bonaparte, Comp. Rend. Acad. Sci. Paris, vol. 40, No. 3, 
Jan. 15, 1855, p. 99 (banks of the Rio Napo, Ecuador). 
SPECIMENS COLLECTED 
lad. 9, Brazil, mouth of Rio Maturac4d, November 8, 1930. 
lad. o&, 1 ad. 9, Brazil, Sao Gabriel, Rio Negro, January 3-15, 1931. 
1 ad. o', 1 ad. 9, Venezuela, Brazo Casiquiare, February 11, 1931. 
1 ad. o, Venezuela, San Antonio, Upper Orinoco, February 28, 1931. 
lad. o&, Venezuela, Upper Orinoco, right bank opposite Corocoro Island, 
March 14, 1931. 
2ad. o', 2ad. 9, Venezuela, Cerro Yapacana, Upper Orinoco, April 2-22, 1931. 
lad. o&, 2 ad. 9, Venezuela, Puerto Ayacucho, Rio Orinoco, January 3, 1930, 
and May 14-16, 1931. 
Several of the Venezuelan specimens (March, April, and May) were 
noted as being in breeding condition when collected. 
According to Peters (Check list of birds of the world, vol. 3, 1937, 
p. 126) dubusi ranges from southeastern Colombia and eastern Ecua- 
dor, eastward to the base of Mount Duida, and the limits of its 
