COLTJMBA. 237. 



This species, according to Count Salvadori, belongs to a section of the genus Columha 

 in which the upper wing-coverts are unspotted and the feathers of the nape have no 

 dark margins ; the head and neck are not uniformly vinaceous, as in C.Jlamrostris,a.nd 

 there is a metallic-bronze patch on the occiput and the back of the upper part of the 

 neck. These are the chief characters which distinguish C. rufina from the other 

 Pigeons of Central America. 



Salvin first met with C. rufina in Guatemala in December, 1858, on the Eio Dulce, 

 and at that time this was the most northern habitat recorded for it. Since then 

 specimens have been obtained at San Pedro in Honduras,' and in various other localities 

 in Central America as given above. On the Volcano of Miravalles Mr. Underwood 

 found it to be one of the most abundant Pigeons of the district. Bridges met with 

 the species in the dense forests of the " Boquete," on the slope of the Volcano of 

 Chiriqui, and it was also found by Mr. Brown in the low-lying districts bordering 

 the Pacific. 



6. Columba fasciata. 



Columba fasciata, Say, in Long's Exp. ii. p. 10 (1823) '; Scl. P. Z. S. 1859, p. 369'; Scl. & Salv. 

 Ibis, 1860, p. 276'; Baird, Brewer, & Ridgw. N. Am. Birds, iii. p. 360* ; Lawr. Mem. 

 Bost. Soe. N. H. ii. p. 304"; Herrera, An. Mus. Nac. Mex. i. p. 104°; Sumichrast, La 

 Nat. V. p. 231'; Ferrari-Perez, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. ix. p. 174°; Salv. & Godm. Ibis, 1892, 

 p. 328 • ; Bendire, Life Hist. N. Am. Birds, p. 122 " ; Jouy, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. xvi. 

 p. 789 " ; A. O. U. Check-L N. Amer. Birds, 2nd ed. p. 119"; Salvad. Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. 

 xxi. p. 291 ". 

 CWorcBwas/ascia^a, Scl. P. Z. S. 1856, p. 309"; 1858, p. 305"; Sumichrast, Mem. Bost. Soe. 



N. H. i. p. 562" ; Duges, La Nat. i. p. 141 ". 

 Columba monilis, Vigors, Zool. Beechey's Voy. p. 26, t. 10". 



Supra griseo-fusca, uropygio et tectricibus supracaudalibus cinoreo-plumbeis, cervice postica seneo micante, 

 Bemitorque cervical! postico albo ; capite summo, nucha et corpore subtus vinaceis, gula et capitis lateribus 

 magis cinereis ; abdomine medio et tectricibus subcaudalibus albicantioritus, hypochondriis cinereis ; alls 

 fuscis, secundariis vix albido marginatis, tectricibus minoribus dorso, tectricibus majoribus uropygio 

 concoloribus • caudse dimidio proximo cinereo-plumbeo, fascia transversa mediana nigra, dimidio distali 

 pallide cinereo : rostro flavo, apice nigro ; pedibus carneis. Long, tota circa 15-0, alse 8-3, caudas 6-0, rostri 

 a rictu 1-0, tarsi 0-95. (Descr. exempl. ex Jalapa, Mexico. Mus. nostr.) 

 5 mari similis. 

 Av. juv. colorem postcervicalem seneum atque semitorquem postcervicalem album caret. 



Bab. North America, Western States from the Eocky Mountains to the Pacific coast, 

 north to Washington and British Columbia i^. — Mexico, Sonora (Eerrera^), 

 Nogales [Jouy^^), Nuevo Leon, Guanajuato {Eerrera^, Duges ^'^), Mazatlan 

 {Grayson^), Sierra de San Luis Potosi, Sierra de Jerez, Tepic, Sierra de Bolanos, 

 Sierra Nevada de Colima {Richardson i^), Sierra Madre i" to the Sierra de Colima 

 {Lloyd 10), Alpine region of Vera Cruz {Sumichrast ^% Jalapa {de Oca^^^), Las 

 Vigas, Puebla, San Miguel Molino {Ferrari-Perez^ ^^), Oaxaca {Boucard^% 

 Coi-dova {Salle ^^) ; Guatemala, Coban 3 ^\ Volcan de Fuego 3 i3 {0. S. & F. D. G.), 



