Todd-Carriker : Birds of Santa Marta Region, Colombia. 197 



(Bonda, Minca, Cincinnati, and Las Taguas, in range; meas. ; references). 



Eight specimens : Bonda, Minca, Cincinnati, Agua Dulce, and Las 

 Taguas. 



The series shows the usual wide range of variation for this species.. 



This beautiful pigeon is rarely seen in the coastal plain, inhabiting 

 instead the foothills and mountains up to S,ooo feet, but being more 

 numerous below 3,000 feet. It is not common as a rule, but on Novem- 

 ber 3, 1913, on the road from La Tigrera to Minca, the writer found a 

 flock of not less than a hundred birds, which had gone to roost in the 

 scrub on the hillside, at about 1,500 feet altitude. 



121. Chlorcenas rufina pallidicrissa (Chubb). 



Columba rufina (not of Temminck) Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XIII, 



1900, 129 (Bonda). — Carkiker, Ann. Carnegie Mus., VI, 1910, 393 ("Santa 



Marta "; crit.)._ 

 Chlorcenas rufina pallidicrissa Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., VII, 1916, 



305 (DibuUa, Fundacion, Gaira, Bonda, Punto Caiman, and Mamatoco ; 



meas. ; references) . 



Eight specimens: Bonda, Fundacion, Punto Caiman, Mamatoco, Di- 

 buUa, and Gaira. 



Santa Marta specimens agree with those from Central- America in 

 the pallor of the posterior under parts as compared with a single ex- 

 ample of true rufina from French Guiana. The tail of the latter, how- 

 ever, is by no means sharply bicolor, but possibly a larger series might 

 give a different result. 



This is the common pigeon of the lowlands, not going beyond the 

 lower edge of the foothills. It prefers more or less open country with 

 scattering trees. At Valencia, on the south side of the Sierra Nevada, 

 it was found to be fairly common in August, 1920. 



122. Chlorcenas albilinea albilinea Bonaparte. 



Columba albilinea Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XXI, 1893, 294 (" Santa 



Marta"). — Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, XII, 1898, 172 (Palomina). 



— Bangs, Proc. New England Z06I. Club, I, 1899, 75 (San Sebastian and El 



Mamon). 

 Columba albilineata (lapsus) Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XIII, 1900, 



129 (Valparaiso). 



Additional records: La Concepcion (Brown). 



Twelve specimens : San Miguel, Cerro de Caracas, Paramo de Ma- 

 marongo, Taquina, San Lorenzo, Las Vegas, Sierra Nevada de Santa 

 Marta (6,000 feet), and Cincinnati. 



