^°'i9^y'"] 'Q\^G^, A New Groimd Dove. 257 



This fine series of eleven specimens was taken at Hamilton in 

 November, December, January, February and March. There is 

 little individual variation in important characters, some males, as 

 usual in any series of Cardinals, are much brighter than others, 

 but all are orange-vermilion in color. The curious bill of the 

 Bermuda Cardinal is very characteristic, at once separating it 

 from any of the other forms. The grooving of the upper mandi- 

 ble is more pronounced in some specimens than in others, but all 

 show it to some extent. It is rather a singular fact that none of 

 the other red-billed Cardinals have grooved upper mandibles, while 

 the Venezuelan Cardinal {C. phd'niceus Gould) that has a whitish 

 brown bill has a grooved mandible. 



The Bermuda Cardinal is abundant everywhere in the islands. 

 On January 6, 1901, it was heard singing its "spring song" for 

 the first time — zvoo-oo-it ; woo-00-it ; %voo-oo-it. 



A NEW GROUND DOVE FROM WESTERN MEXICO. 



BY OUTRAM BANGS. 



A SHORT time ago my brother and I came into possession of 

 two skins of a Ground Dove, that were collected by P. O. Simons, 

 in the summer of 1897, in Sinaloa, Mexico — one at Los Rabies, 

 the other at Escuinapa. In size and proportions these two speci- 

 mens agree with true Columbigallijia rufipoinis (Bp.), but differ 

 much from that bird in the general pallor of their coloration ; the 

 underparts are much paler vinaceous, and the rich vinaceous 

 chestnut of back and wings of C. rujipennis is replaced in the Sina- 

 loa form by pinkish vinaceous. 



The type locality of Talpacotia rufipemiis Bp.^ is Carthagena, 

 and the range of the species is usually given as from Guiana, 

 Venezuela, and Colombia north to Orizaba and Colima, Mexico. 

 Thus Sinaloa is beyond (northwest of) the known geographic 



1 Bonaparte, Consp. Av,, II, p. 79. 



