ORDER COLUMB^. 147 



ORDER COLUMBJE. PIGEONS AND DOVES. 



FAMILY GOLUMBIDJE. PIGEONS AND DOVES. 



GENUS COLUMBA LINNAEUS. 



Cclumba LINNAEUS, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, 1758, 162. Type, by subs, desig., 

 Columba palumbus LINN.US (Gray, 1840). 



Columba fasciata SAY. 



RANGE. Western North America from southwestern British 

 Columbia south to Central America. 



a. Columba fasciata fasciata SAY. Band-tailed Pigeon. [312.] 



Columba fasciata SAY, in LONG'S Exped., II, 1823, 10 (note). (Plum 

 Creek, near Castle Rock, Douglas Co., Colorado.) 



RANGE. Transition Zone from southwestern British Columbia, western 

 Washington, western Oregon, northern Utah, and north central Colorado 

 south through southwestern United States and Mexico to Nicaragua, and east 

 to western Texas; winters from southwestern United States southward. 



6. Columba fasciata vioscae BREWSTER. Viosca's Pigeon. [312a.] 



Columba fasciata vioscce BREWSTER, Auk, V, Jan., 1888, 86. (La Laguna, 

 Lower California.) 



RANGE. Southern Lower California. 



Columba fiavirostris WAGLER. Red-billed Pigeon. [313.] 



Columba flavirostris WAGLER, Isis, XXIV, 1831, 519. (Mexico.) 



RANGE. Lower Rio Grande Valley south through Mexico (both 

 coasts) and Central America to Costa Rica. 



Columba leucocephala LINN^US. White-crowned Pigeon. [314.] 



Columba leucocephala LINN^US, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, 1758, 164. (Bahama 

 Islands.) 



