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Adult male.— Length (skins), 137-157 (147); wing, 76-82 (80); 

 tail, 50-58 (53); exposed culmen, 10.5-12 (11.2); tarsus,15-17 (16).° 



Adult female.— Length (skins), 136-155 (145); wing, 75-81 (79); 

 tail, 51-58 (53.5); exposed culmen, 11-12 (11.1); tarsus, 15-16.5 

 (15.7)." 



Caribbean coast district of Colombia (Bonda, Minca, Santa Marta, 

 and Sierra Nevada, Santa Marta; Paramo de Macotama; Carte- 

 gena; Tierra Bomba, and Bay of Tesco, near Cartagena; Sabanilla; 

 Barranquilla; Bucaramanga ?) and Venezuela (Caracas; Ciudad 

 Bolivar; Agua Salada, Ciudad Bolivar; La Guaira; Tocuyo, Estado 

 Lara; Carupano; El Callao; Caicara; Cumana; Cariaco Peninsula; 

 Margarita, Tortuga, Los Hermanos, Orquilla, Blanquilla, and Los 

 Testigos islands) and islands of Curacao, Aruba, and Bonaire. Trini- 

 dad? Tobago? 



(?)Chamaepelia passerina (not Columba passerina Linnaeus) Licbtenstein, Nom. 



Av. Mus. Berol., 1854, 82, part (Colombia). 

 Chamsepelia passerina Schott, Rep. Lieut. Michler's Exp. Isth. Darien, 1861, 



247, in text, part (Tierra Bomba and Bay of Tesco, near Cartagena, Colombia). 

 Chamsepelia passerina Wyatt, Ibis, 1871, 383 (Santa Marta, Colombia). — (?)Ber- 



lepsch, Journ. fur Orn., 1884, 317 (Bucaramanga, Colombia). — Ridgway, 



Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vii, 1884, 177 (Curasao). — Peters, Journ. fur Orn. 



1892, 113 (Curacao; habits). — Salvadoei, Cat. Birds. Brit. Mus., xxi, 1893, 



473, part (Venezuela; Trinidad). 

 [Chamsepelia] passerina Sclater and Sai/vtn, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 133, part. — 



Forbes and Robinson, Bull. Liverp. Mus., ii, 1900, 141, part (Cumana, 



Venezuela; Trinidad). 

 Columba passerina (not of Linnaeus) Sundevall, CEfv. KongL Vet.-Ak. Forh., 



1869 (1870), 586, part (Venezuela; crit.). 

 Peristera passerina Martin, Bericht Reise Nederl. Westindien, 1887, — (Curacao; 



Bonaire). 

 Columbigallina passerina Allen, Bull. Am. Mub. N. H., iv, 1892, 56 (Carupano, 



Venezuela).— Berlepsch, Journ. flir' Orn., 1892, 69, 97, part (Curacao; crit.), 



102, part (Curacao/Colombia, Venezuela, Trinidad, and Tobago). — Hartert, 



Ibis, 1893, 326, in text (Bonaire). — Robinson, Flying Trip to Tropics, 1895, 



a Ten specimens. 



Locality. 



Tarsus. 



MALES. 



Fire adult males from Colombia 



Two adult males from Venezuela 



One adult male from Margarita Island. . . 

 Two adult males from Curasao 



FEMALES. 



Five adult females from Colombia 



Three adult females from Venezuela 



One adult female from Margarita Island . 

 One adult female from Curacao 



16.3 

 15.5 

 16.5 

 15.5 



15.6 

 15.8 

 15.5 

 16 



