BIEDS OP NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 435 



Brazil).— Cole, Bull. Mus. Oomp. Zool., 1, 1906, 118 (Chichen-Itza, Yuca- 

 tan). — Thayer and Bangs, Bull. Mus Comp. Zool., xlvi, 1906, 214 (Sabana 

 de Panama). — Dearborn, Pub. 125, Field Mus. N. H., 1907, 79 (Montagua 

 Valley, Guatemala). — Berlepsch, Novit. Zool., ix, 1908, 295 (Cayenne).— 

 Dabbene, Orn. Argentina, 1910, 194 (Tucuman, Argentina). 



Claravis pretiosa pretiosa Carriker, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vi, 1910, 400 (Bonilla, 

 Pigres, San Sebastian de San Jose, San Jose, Laguna de Cartago, La Estrella 

 de Cartago, Talamanca, Alajuela, Pozo Azul de Pirris, Guapiles, El Hogar, 

 and El Pozo de Terraba, Costa Rica; crit.). — Peters, Auk. xxx, 1913, 373 

 (Camp Mengel, Quintana Boo). 



Chamaepelia plumbea Bertoni, Aves Nuevas del Paraguay, 1902, 27 (Paraguay). 



Chamaepelia cnmana (not Columba cruziana Provost and Knip) Lynch Arribal- 

 zaga, An. Mus. Nac. Buenos Aires, vii, 1902, 339. 



Claravis pretiosa livida Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xviii, June 9, 1905, 153 (Rio 

 Cauca, n. yr. Colombia; coll. E. A. and O. Bangs). 



CLARAVIS MONDETOURA (Bonaparte). 



MONDETOtTR'S GROUND DOVE. 



Adult male. — General color of upper parts slate-gray, fading into 

 grayish white or pale gull gray on forehead, the back, scapulars, rump, 

 and upper tail-coverts (especially the first) somewhat darker and less 

 bluish gray (deep neutral gray) ; outer webs of proximal secondaries 

 crossed by a broad sub terminal band of violaceous black, margined, 

 more or less distinctly, both anteriorly and posteriorly, by a narrow 

 line of pale bluish gray, the proximal greater coverts with a similar, 

 but usually somewhat narrower, band, the proximal smaller coverts 

 sometimes with a few similar but smaller markings; alulae, primary 

 coverts, primaries, and distal secondaries deep brownish gray (some- 

 times, however, scarcely different from color of back); rectrices 

 (except middle pair) extensively grayish white distally, the white 

 increasing in extent to the outermost rectrix, on which it occupies at 

 least the distal half; chin and upper throat white; lower throat, fore- 

 neck, and chest (sometimes upper breast also) uniform deep chocolate 

 to diamine brown, passing into slate-gray on lower breast, sides, and 

 flanks; abdomen, anal region, and under tail-coverts white or buffy 

 white, the last sometimes tinged or suffused with pale gray; axdllars 

 and under wing-coverts deep grayish brown to dull blackish brown; 

 bill black; iris pink, pinkish white, straw color, & or yellow; 6 legs 

 and feet blood red ° or burnt carmine; 6 length (skins), 182-241 (213); 

 wing, 107-117 (112.4); tail, 66-83.5 (77.6); exposed culmen, 12.5- 

 13.5 (13); tarsus, 21-22.5 (21.8); middle toe, 19.5-21 (20.3) . c 



Adult female. — General color of upper parts olive-brown or sepia- 

 brown, lighter or more grayish brown on wing-coverts, the primaries, 

 etc., deep grayish brown; wing spots or bands semi-metallic dark 

 purple (corinthian purple to dark perilla purple) instead of violet- 

 black; rectrices (except middle pair) dull black or brownish black 



" According to M. A. Carriker, jr. 



6 According to W. W. Brown, jr. (According to H. Whitely, the legs and feet in 

 the Peruvian bird are lead color!) 

 c Seven specimens. 



