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de Cartago; Azahar de Cartago; Naranjo de Cartago; Volcan de 

 Irazu; San Jos6; La Candelaria; Sarchi de Grecia; Las Trojas; 

 Barranca; Lagarto; UjurrasdeTerraba; PozodelPital), and Panama 

 (Boquete; Volcan de Chiriqui; Calovevora; Punta de Sabana). 



Chloroenas subvinaeea Lawrence, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., ix, 1868, 135 

 (Dota, Cosfa Rica; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.).— Salvin, Ibis, 1869, 317 (crit.).— 

 Frantzius, Journ. fur Orn., 1869, 371 (San Antonio, Costa Rica). — Rowley, 

 Orn. Misc., iii, pt. xii, 1878, 75, pi. 91.— Zeled6n, Cat. Aves de Costa Rica, 

 1882, 28. 



Columba subvinaeea Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1870, 217 (Calovevora, w. 

 Panama). — Boucard, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1878, 43 (La Candelaria, Costa 

 Rica).— Zeled6n, Anal. Mus.- Nac. C. R., i, 1888, 127 (Las Trojas and 

 Naranjo de Cartago, Costa Rica). — Cherrie, Expl. Zool. Merid. C. R., 1893, 

 53 (Lagarto, s. w. Costa Rica); Expl. Zool. Rio Naranjo, 1893, 7 (Pozo del 

 Pital, s. w. Costa Rica). — Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxi, 1893, 326, 

 part (Barranca and San Jose, Costa Rica; Volcan de Chiriqui and Calovevora, 

 Panama).— Bangs, Proc. New Engl. Zool. Club, iii, 1902, 23 (Boquete, 4,000 

 ft., w. Panama). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, iii, 1902, 

 239, part (Dota Mts., San Jose, Barranca, San Antonio, Volcan de Irazu, 

 La Candelaria, Las Trojas, Naranjo de Cartago, Azahar de Cartago, and 

 Sarchi de Grecia, Costa Rica; Boquete, Volcan de Chiriqui, Calovevora, and 

 Punta de Sabana, Panama.) — Carriker, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vi, 1910, 396 

 (Guayabo, Coliblanco, Bonilla, Las Trojas, Turrialba, Sarchi, La Estrella de 

 Cartago, Azahar de Cartago, Guacimo, Cachi, and Ujurras de Terraba, Costa 

 Rica). 



[Columba] subvinaeea Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 235, no. 9278. — Sclater and 

 Salvin, Norn. Av. Neotr., 1873, 132, part.— Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 72, 

 part. 



(ENCENAS NIGRIROSTRIS (Sclater). 



SHORT-BILLED PIGEON. 



Adult Tnale. — Pileum purple-drab (usually somewhat darker and 

 duller on occiput, lighter and more vinaceous on forehead), passing 

 into deep livid brown or brighter purple-drab, very faintly glossed 

 with purplish vinaceous, on nape and hindneck, and into lighter 

 purple-drab or vinaceous-drab on sides of head and neck, the hind- 

 neck sometimes with a more or less distinct roundish subterminal spot 

 of paler on both webs of each feather; rest of upper parts, including 

 remiges and tail, deep brownish drab to brownish fuscous, the upper 

 back (occasionally whole back and rump) sometimes much more 

 brownish (natal brown or between this and olive-brown) ; under parts, 

 including under tail-coverts, plain light vinaceous-drab or light 

 brownish drab to pinkish cinnamon-drab or light purplish sorghum 

 brown, the chin and upper throat usually somewhat paler; axillars 

 and under wing-coverts light pinkish brown (nearly sorghum brown), 

 the under surface of remiges nearly similar passing apically into dull 

 brownish gray or dusky; bill and cere black, the rictus dull reddish; 

 eyelids lake red;" iris pink, vinaceous, or rose color;" legs and feet 



a Fresh colors of specimens obtained by the author in Costa Rica. 



