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Young male. — Very much duller in coloration than the adult 

 male; squamations and spotting of neck nearly obsolete, pileum 

 and sides of head bone brown to hays brown or sorghum brown, 

 chest nearly uniform brown (more or less deep), and chestnut of 

 upper parts duller, the feathers sometimes with an indistinct paler 

 tip and darker subterminal bar, and the under parts of body (pos- 

 terior to chest) indistinctly squamated with light brown on a dull 

 or grayish white ground color. 



Young female. — Similar to the young male but general color of 

 upper parts and squamations on under parts decidedly more grayish 

 brown. 



Southeastern Mexico, in States of Vera Cruz (Pasa Nueya; Tolosa; 

 Mirad6r; C6rdova; San Lorenzo, near Cordova; Potrero, near C6r- 

 dova), Oaxaca (Tuxtepec), and Yucatan (Xbac; Tizimin; Chichen- 

 Itza), and southward, through Guatemala (El Peten; Guadalupe 

 Sakluk), British Honduras (forest near Manatee Lagoon), Honduras 

 (Celba), Nicaragua (La dibertad, Chontales; Rio Escondido), Costa 

 Rica (Boruca; El General; Buenos Aires; Paso Real; Terraba), 

 Panama (Bugaba, Boquete, El Banco, Volcan de Chiriqui, Chitra, 

 and Boquer6n, Chiriqui; Lion Hill, Rio Indio, and Tabernilla, Canal 

 Zone), Colombia (Bonda, Minca, Cincinnati, and Las Taguas, Santa 

 Marta; Rem^dios, Antioquia; Bogota), Venezuela (El Callao; Mai- 

 pures; Suapure), Trinidad (Aripa, 2,000 ft.; Chaguanas), British 

 Guiana (Demerara; Bartica Grove; Camacusa; Roraima, 3,500 ft.), 

 French Guiana (Cayenne), Dutch Guiana (Surinam), and Ecuador 

 (Esmeraldas; Balzar Mts.; Sarayacu; Gualaquiza), to Peru (Chami- 

 curos; Amable Maria; La Merced), Bolivia (lower Rio Beni), and 

 Brazil (Rio Caplm; Counani; Goyana, Tapaj6s; Engenho do Gama; 

 Para; Santarem; Diamantina, near Santarem; Bahia; Sierra de Lua, 

 Amazonas; Chapada, Mattogrosso). 



[Columba] speciosa Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. 2, 1789, 783 (Cayenne; based on 

 Pigeon rarrder, de Cayenne Daubenton, PI. Enl., pi. 213). — Latham, Index 

 Orn., ii, 1790, 605— Reichenbach, Syn. Av., 1847, cxxxii, figs. 1253, 1254.— 

 Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 234, no. 9564. — Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. 

 Neotr., 1873, 132.— Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 70.— Forbes and Robinson, 

 Bull. Liverp. Mus., ii, 1900, 132 (Demerara, Brit. Guiana; Venezuela?). 



Columba speciosa Bonnaterre, Tabl. Enc. M6th., i, 1790, 245, pi. 80, fig. 2. — Tem- 

 minck and Knip, Pigeons, i, fam. seconde, 1808-11, 39, pi. 39, pi. 14 (French 

 Guiana).— Temminck, Cat. Syst., 1807, 139 (note on p. 29; Cayenne); Hist. 

 Nat. Pig. et Gallin., i, 1813, 208 (French Guiana).— Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. 

 d'Hist. Nat., xxvi, 1818, 364 (Cayenne); xxix, 1819, 2.— Maximilian, Reis. 

 Bras., i, 1820, 251.— Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., xxxix, 1854, 1110.— Sclater 

 and Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 222 (Guatemala); Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1864, 371 

 (Panama); 1867, 590 (Para, Brazil); 1873, 306 (Chamicuros, e. Peru); 1879, 

 543 (Remedios, Antioquia, Colombia; descr. eggs).— Sclater, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. Lond., 1860, 298 (Esmeraldaa, w. Ecuador).— Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 Lond., 1870, 217 (Bugaba, Veragua, Panama); Ibis, 1886, 173 (Bartica Grove, 



