OKDEE COLUMB^. 147 



Oeder COLUMBJE. Pigeons and Doves. 



Family COLUMBIDiE. Pigeons and Doves. 



Genus COLUMBA Linn^us. 



Columha Linn^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, 1758, 162. Type, by subs, desig., 

 Columba palumbus Linn^tts (Gray, 1840). 



Columba fasciita Say. 



Range. — Western North America from southwestern British 

 Columbia south to Central America. 



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



Columba fasciata Sat, 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. 



b. Columba fasciata vioscae Bkewster. Viosca's Pigeon. [312a.] 



Columba fasciata viosccB Brewster, Auk, V, Jan., 1888, 86. (La Laguna, 

 Lower California.) 



Range. — Southern Lower California. 



Columba flavirostris Waglee. Red-billed Pigeon. [313.] 

 Columha flavirostris Wagler, Isis, XXIV, 1831, 519. (Mexico.) 



Range. — Lower Rio Grande Valley south through Mexico (both 

 coasts) and Central America to Costa Rica. 



Columba Ieucoc§phaIa Linn^us. Wliite-crowned Pigeon. [314.] 



Columha hMcocephala LiNNiEUS, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, 1758, 164. (Bahama 

 Islands.) 



