BIEDS OP NORTH AND MIDDLE AMEBICA. 



407 



[Columbigallina passerina] var. socorroensis Dubois, Synopsis Avium, ii, 1902, 764. 

 Chsemepelia passerina soarrroensis Todd, Ann. Carnegie Mua., viii, 1913, 543 (monogr.). 

 Chamsepelia passerina (not Columba passerina Linnaeus) Salvador:, Cat. Birds Brit. 

 Mus., xxi, 1893, 473, part (Socorro I.). 



CH^MEPELIA PASSERINA NEGLECTA Carriker. 



CENTRAL AMERICAN GROUND DOVE. 



Similar to C. p. passerina but color of upper parts browner, base of 

 bill red instead of yellow or orange, and adult male with, vinaceous 

 of bead and neck averaging deeper, and wing-coverts more exten- 

 sively vinaceous; similar also to 0. p. pallescens but coloration 

 decidedly darker. 



Adult male. — Lengtb (skins) 146-172 (161); wing, 85-89 (87); tail, 

 53-60 (56); exposed culmen, 11-12 (11.5); tarsus, 16-16.5 (16.1).° 



Adult female.— Lengtb (skins), 154-173 (163); wing, 84-89 (86); 

 tail, 52-60 (57); exposed culmen, 11-12 (11. 7); tarsus, 15-16.5 

 (15.6).° 



Central America: Guatemala (Duefias; San Ger6nimo; Toyabaj, 

 Quitch6; Panajachal, 5,000 feet; Santa Maria, near Quezaltenango), 

 and southward through Honduras (mouth of Rio Roman) and Nicar- 

 agua (Sucuya; Ometepe; San Rafael del Norte; San Juan del Sur; 

 San Carlos; Matagalpa) to western Costa Rica (Ten6rio; Coralillo; 

 Miravalles; Bagaces; Bebedero; La Palma de Nicoya; Esparta; Pigres; 

 Alajuela; San Jos6; Cartago; Los Cuadros de Irazli); casual or occa- 

 sional in Yucatan (Merida; Chichen-Itza; San Ignacio). 



(T)Chamaspelia passerina (not Columba passerina Linnaeus) Sclater and Salvxnt, 

 Ibis, 1859, 223 (Duefias, Guatemala; habits). — Salvin and Sclater, Ibis, 

 1860, 45 (Guatemala; habits).— Salvin, Cat. Strickland Coll., 1882, 547, 

 part (Guatemala). — Oates, Cat. Birds' Eggs Brit. Mus., i, 1901, 101, part 

 (Duefias, Guatemala). 



Chamsepelia passerina Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., ix, 1868, 139 (San Jose and 

 Cartago, Costa Rica); ix, 1869, 207 (Merida, Yucatan). — Frantzius, Journ. 

 fur Orn., 1869, 371 (Costa Rica). — Baird, Brewer, and Ridgwat, Hist. 

 N. Am. Birds, iii, 1874, 389, part (Central American references). — Boucard, 



° Ten specimens. 



Locality. 



Wing. 



Tail. 



jose 

 culmen. 



Tarsus. 



MALES. 



One adult male from Guatemala (Duefias) 



One adult male from Honduras 



Two adult males from Nicaragua 



Six adult males from Costa Rica 



FEMALES. 



One adult female from Honduras 



Three adult females from Nicaragua 



Six adult females from Costa Rica 



84 



85.7 



86.2 



55 

 56 

 58 

 55.7 



60 



55.7 



57 



11 

 12 

 11.5 

 11.4 



11.5 

 11.7 

 11.9 



16 

 16.5 

 16 

 16.2 



16 



15.5 



15.7 



