86 Brewster o» Netv Birds from Mexico atid the Bahamas. [January 



ined. It is a curious fact that in the National Museum collection 

 true H. palliatus is represented from Isabella Island (west coast 

 of Mexico), Tehuantepec, Peru, and Chili. 



Columba fasciata vioscae,* new subspecies. — Viosca's Pigeon. 



Sp. Char. — Similar to C. fasciata but with tlie tail band wanting or 

 only faintly indicated, the general coloring lighter and more uniform, the 

 vinaceous tints, especially on the head, neck and breast, much fainter and 

 more or less replaced by bluish ash. 



$ ad. (No. 1413S, collection of W. Brewster, La Laguna, Lower Califor- 

 nia, May 30, 18S7; M.Abbott Frazar). Above bluish ash, deepest and 

 purest on wing-coverts and rump, palest (nearly plain di-ab) on terminal 

 half of tail, tinged slightly with olive brown on back and scapulars, and 

 very faintly with vinaceous on the crown ; a narrow half collar of white 

 across upper hind neck, the remainder of the hind neck dull, metallic, 

 bi'onzy green ; primaries dark slaty brown ; primaries, secondaries, and 

 wing-coverts edged narrowly with white; basal half of tail uniform with 

 rump, the terminal half drab (whitish on under side of the feathers), the 

 two colors not separated by black as in C. fasciata, but merely shading 

 rather abruptly into one another; under tail-coverts, crissum, and anal 

 region white ; abdomen whitish; flanks, sides, and under wing-coverts 

 nearly concolor with the rump but a little lighter; remainder of underparts 

 pinkish vinaceous with a strong tinge of glaucous ; feet and basal two 

 thirds of bill dull yellow, the terminal third of the bill black. Wing, 8. 69 ; 

 tail, 5.36; tarsus, 1.15; bill from feathers, .66. 



5 ad. (No. 14139, collection of W. Brewster, La Laguna, Lower Califor- 

 nia, May 31, 1S87; M. Abbott Frazar). Smaller than the $, and slightly 

 duller, the top of head browner. Wing, 8.00; tail, 5.47; tarsus, 1.07; bill 

 from feathers, .69. 



Habitat. Lower California. 



The characters above proposed are shown by the large series 

 (over one hundred specimens) before me to be sufficiently well 

 marked and constant to entitle the Lower California bird to sub- 

 specific separation. Its general coloring is much paler and more 

 un'form than that of \.yu.q fasciata^ the crown being faintly instead 

 of strongly tinged with vinaceous, the underparts glaucous, instead 

 of purplisii, vinaceous, the back much ashier and less brownish. 

 As a rule the tail-band is either wholly lacking or only faintly 

 indicated, but a very few specimens have it distinctly marked. 

 In fasciata., as far as I have observed, it is always present. 

 Thirteen specimens oi fasciata before me fi-om various parts of 

 the United States and the mainland of Mexico show only a 



* To Mr. Viosca, United States Consul at La Paz, Lower California. 



