256 PEEISTEEID^. 



Las Trojas, Alajuela, San Jose, Naraiijo de Cartago {Zeledon ^^), Miravalles, Laguna 

 de Cartago, Talamanca, Tres Eios, Turrialba {Underwood ^'^ , in lift.), Gulf of 

 Nicoya (v. Frantzius ^^) ; Panama, La Barranca, Calovevora, Mina de Chorcha, 

 Bugaba {Arc6 ^^ ^^), Divala {Brown ^% Lion Hill Station {M'Leannan » ^o, 

 JBrown^^). — South America from Colombia to Brazil and Peru ^^. 



Although found in many localities within our limits, this Pigeon is apparently only 

 migratory and is nowhere common. Mr. Richmond ^^ first met with P. cinerea on the 

 Escondido River, but it Avas resident there only part of the year ; it was observed 

 frequenting the bamboos on the banks of the streams or solitary trees in the plantations, 

 usually in pairs, and was first noted on September 2()th. 



The specific name cinerea has been changed by Ferrari-Perez to pretiosa, because 

 there was already a Columba cinerea of Scopoli ; but this alteration seems unnecessary, 

 as Scopoli's bird, if it is ever identified, would probably prove to belong to a different 

 genus {cf. Salvador!, Cat. Birds, xxi. p. 638). 



2. Peristera mondetoura. 



Peristera mondetoura, Bp. Compt. Rend. xlii. pp. 765 ', 957 ' ; Icon. Pig.'t. 126 ' ; Lawr. Ann. Lye. 



N. Y. ix. p. 139*; v. Frantz. J. f. Orn. 1869, p. 371 " ; Salv. Ibis, 1874, pp. 99% 455"; 



Sumichrast, La Nat. v. p. 233 ' ; Zeledon, Aa. Mus. Nac. Costa Hica, 1887, p. 127 ° ; Allen, 



Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. ii. p. 151 "; Salvad. Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xxi. p. 495 ". 

 Claravis mondetoura, Oberh. Pr. Acad. Pbilad. 1899, p. 203 '' ; Bangs, Pr. New Engl. Zool. Club, 



iii. p. 23 ^\ 

 Peristera lansbergi, Schl. Mus. P.-B., Columbse, p. 139 '*. 



Supra saturate schistaceo-cinerea, pileo coUoque et tectrioibus alarum clarius cinereis, harum intimis maculis 

 metallice purpureis, utrinque albido limbatis, pulchre ornatis ; remigibus brunneis, cinereo extus marginatis 

 et dorso eoneoloribus ; supracaudalibus et rectrioibus intimis scbistaoeis ; reliquis cinereo-albis, extimis 

 pure albis, basin versus schistaceo-nigris ; front©, loris, facie antica et mento albis ; gutture et pectore 

 saturate purpureo-castaneis ; abdomine et subcaudalibus albis, ochraoeo paullulum lavatis; corporis 

 lateribus sordide oinerascenti-sobistaceis ; subalaribus nigrioantibus : rostro nigro ; pedibus sordide rubris 

 unguibus nigris ; iride rufescenti-aurantiaca. long, tota circa 8-4, alte 4-5, caudee 275 culm Q^^5 

 tarsi 0-85. ' " ' 



$ . Supra brunnea, dorso imo, uropygio et supracaudalibus magis ferrugineis ; alis dorso eoneoloribus, et 

 maculis purpureis sicut in mari ornatis; rectrioibus nigris ad apicem brunneo vel brunnescenti-albo 

 fasciatis ; fronte, facie laterali et gula ferrugineis ; gutture imo et pectore saturate cinerascenti-brunneis • 

 abdomioe albo ; corporis lateribus et tibiis saturate brunneis ; hypochondriis imis et subcaudalibus' 

 ocbrasoentihus ; subalaribus et axillaribus nigrioantibus, vix rufo lavatis. Long, tota circa 8-0, als 4-4 

 (Descr. maris et feminoB ex Calderas, Volcan de Fuego, Guatemala. Mus. nostr.) 



Eab. Mexico, Jalapa {de Oca^^y Omealca, Vera Cruz {Sumichrast^); Guatemala, 

 Calderas, Volcan de Fuego 7000 to 8000 feet {0. S.^^^); Costa Rica, Birril 

 {v. Frantzius s, Zeledon 4), Cartago {Zeledon 9), Irazu {Underwood, in lift.) ; Panama, 

 Boquete, Volcan de Chiriqui 3000 to 7000 feet (5?-om i3). _ Colombia ii '• 



Venezuela m* ; Ecuador H; Peruh. 



This is one of the rarest and most beautiful of all the American Pigeons, and is 



