254 PERISTEKID^. 



nigricante, rectrice externa utrinque in pogonio externo apicem versus cinnaraomeo limbata : rostro fusco ; 

 pedibus cameia. Long, tota circa 7'0, alae 3-4, candae 2-55, rostri a rictu 0-55, tarsi 0-65. 

 2 . Fuseo-brunnea, capita cinerascentiore, alis sicut in mare maculatis, remigibus extrorsnm nigro limbatis : 

 subtus pallidior, gula et abdomine sordide albicantibus, rectrice extima utrinque versus apicem albo 

 marginata ; subalaribus nigris. (Descr. maris et feminae ex Eetalhnleu, Guatemala. Mus. nostr.) 



Mab. Mexico, Los Eables and Escuinapa in Sinaloa (Simons ^3), Santiago, Tepic, Toaala, 

 Chiapas (Richardson ^i), Acapulco, Tierra Colorada, Atoyac, Teapa (Mrs. H. H. 

 Smith 21), Potrero, Omealca, Vera Cruz (Sumichrast -% Huatusco (Ferrari-Perez ^^), 

 Playa Vicente (Trujillo ^^j, Jalapa (Be Oca % Putla (Eebouch 21), Merida (Schott ^% 

 Tekanto (Stone & Baker ^''), Chichen-ltza (Chapman^^), IzalamSi, Buctzotz-'i, 

 Peto2i, Cozumel I. ^^ YvLcaisjo.^^ (Gaumer) •, British Hoxdueas (Blancaneaux^^); 

 GiTATKMALA, Retalhuleu (i??c/«a/-rf6"0/i2i), Duenas, Paraiso, Pacific coast (0. aS.^i), 

 Peten (Leyland ^) ; Salvador, La Libertad (Richardson 21) ; Honduras, Comayagua 

 (Taylor^ % San Pedro (miitely\ Leyland% Truxillo (Townsend^^) ; Nicaragua, 

 Chinandega, Matagalpa (Richardson ^^); Costa Rica (Endres^^), San Jose 

 (Carmiol^^), Las Trojas (Zeledon^% Orosi (v. Frantzius ^^), Puntarenas 

 (Boucard ^% La Palma, Gulf of Nicoya (Xutting ^2) ; Paxama « », David (Hicks 10 i3), 

 Chitra", Calobre^*, Bugabai*, Miua de Chorcha ^\ Chepo^i (Arce'^^), Lion Hill 

 {M'-Leannan^^), Divala^aso^ San Miguel in the Pearl Is. ^i (Brown), Punta de 

 Sabana (Festa^^). 



This species belongs to a different section of the genus ChamoBpelia, having 

 the sides of the tarsus feathered ; it is further distinguished from C. minuta by the 

 black bar on the under surface of the wing, and by other well-marked differences in 

 plumage. 



In Central America this Ground-Dove is very common, though it appears less 

 frequent in Honduras, and it is not very numerously represented in our Mexican series. 

 Mr. Bangs has recently separated the bird from Sinaloa as a pale race of C. rujipennis, 

 which he calls C. rwfipennis eluta. Our Mexican specimens cannot be separated from 

 those from other countries, and dark and light individuals are found everywhere. 

 Climate has, perhaps, something to do with this difference in colour, and birds from 

 Panama are somewhat dark, but these can be matched by others from Cozumel and 

 the mainland of Mexico. Many of the paler specimens appear to be bleached, the 

 newly moulted individuals being always the darkest. 



We know nothing of the habits of this species, but doubtless they are similar to 

 those of other Ground-Doves. 



PERISTERA. 



Peristera, Swains, (nee Rafin.), Zool. Journ. iii. p. 360 (1827); Salvad. Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xxi. 



p. 491 (1893). 

 Claravis, Oberholser, Pr. Acad. Philad. 1899, p. 203. 



