ORDER COLUMB^. II9 



Suborder PENELOPES. Curassows and Guans. 



Family CRACID^. Curassows and Guans. 



Subfamily PENELOPINiE, Guans. 



Genus ORTALIS Merrem. 



Ortalis Merr. Av. Rar. Icones et Desc. II. 1786, 40. Type, 

 Phasianus moUnot Linn. 



311. Ortalis vetula maccalli Baird. 



Chachalaca. 



Ortalida maccalli ^ki^Y)^ B. N. Am. 1858, 611. 



Ortalida vetula var. maccalli Baird, Hist. N. Am. B. III. 1874, 



398. 



[B 456, C 378, R 469, C 552.] 



Geog. Dist. — Valley of the Lower Rio Grande, and southward in 

 Mexico to Vera Cruz. 



Order COLUMB^. Pigeons. 



Family COLUMBIDJE. Pigeons. 



Genus COLUMBA Linn/eus. 



Columba Linn. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 162. Type, by elimination, 

 C. cenas Linn. 



312. Columba fasciata Say. 



Band-tailed Pigeon. 



Columba fasciata Say, Long's Exp. II. 1823, 10. 



