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relatively stouter than in other species; but in coloration it is 

 remarkably like 0. inornata, which in form of bill and other characters 

 is much like typical OMorcsnas. C. rufina is peculiar in its much less 

 prominent nasal operculi, slight anterior extension of frontal feather- 

 ing (the extremity of which is practically in vertical line with the 

 point of the malar antia), and, apparently, want of small roundish 

 scales on the planta tarsi. 



KEY TO THE SPECIES AND SUBSPECIES OP CHLOECENAS. 



o. Color of smaller wing-coverts and chest uniform. {Adults.) 

 6. Hindneck metallic green or bronze; tail tricolored (a darker basal and a paler 

 apical portion, separated by a more or less distinct black or dusky band). 

 c. A white bar across nape; metallic feathers' of hindneck sharply defined, scale- 

 like. 

 d. Bill yellow (with or without black tip). 

 e. Tip of bill black; abdomen and under tail-coverts white. {Chloroenas 

 fasciata.) 

 f. Darker, with dusky sub terminal band of tail distinct. (British Columbia 

 to northern Nicaragua; east to Rocky Mountains.) 



Cnloroenas fasciata fasciata (p. 288). 

 ff. Paler, with subterminal band of tail indistinct. (Southern Lower 



California.) Chlorosnas fasciata vioscee (p. 292). 



ee. Bill entirely yellow; abdomen vinaceous-grayish, like more anterior under 



parts; under tail-coverts gray (more or less deep). ( Chlorosnas albilinea). 



/. Pileum, nape, and chest deep purple-drab; under tail-coverts pale 



gray; wing-coverts paler than back and scapulars. (Costa Rica and 



Panama.) Chlorosnas albilinea crissalis- (p. 292). 



ff. Pileum, nape, and chest dark vinaceous-gray; under tail-coverts mouse 

 gray; wing-coverts concolor with scapulars and back. (Colombia to 

 British Guiana, Bolivia, and Peru.) 



ChloroeHas albilinea albilinea (extra]imital). ffi 

 id. Bill entirely black. (Chile.) Chlorcenas araucana (extralimital).& 



[Chlorosnas] albilinea Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av., ii, 1857, 51 (Colombia; coll. 

 Brit. Mus.; ex Columba albilinea Gray, manuscript). — Chloroenas albilinea Bonaparte, 

 Consp. Gen. Av.,ii, 1857, 51, in text. — Columba albilinea Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 Lond., 1860, 72 (Pallatanga, w. Ecuador); Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxi, 1893, 

 294. — Columba albilineata Gray, List Birds Brit. Mus., Columbse, 1856, 34. — [Chlo- 

 rosnas] albilineatd Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 235, no. 9270. — Columba guayaquilensis 

 Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xi, sig. 8, Nov. 8, 1888, 112 ("Guayaquil," w. 

 Ecuador; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). 



1 have seen specimens of this form only from "Guayaquil" (locality in doubt). 



* Columba araucana Lesson, Voy. Coq., Zool., livr. 4, July, 1827, pi. 40; text, i, pt. 

 ii, livr. 16, May, 1830, 706 (Talcahuana, Prov. Concepcion, Chile; coll. Paris Mus.); 

 Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxi, 1893, 296. — [Chloroenas] araucana Heine and 

 Reichenow, Nom. Mus. Hein. Orn., 1890, 277. — Columba denisea Temminck, PI. 

 Col., iv, livr. 86, Sept., 1830, pi. 502 and text (Chile; coll. LeydenMus.). — [Chloroenas] 

 denisea Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av., ii, 1857, 51. — Columba fltzroyii King, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. Lond., pt. i, no. 1, Jan. 6,1831, 15 (Chiloe I., Chile). — (?)Columba meridionalis 

 (not of Latham, 1801, nor King, 1828) Peale, U. S. Expl. Exped. (Wilkes), Birds, 

 1848, 111 (Rio Negro, Patagonia). 



