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Young. — Similar to the adult female but upper parts browner (the 

 upper tail-coverts deep snuff brown), wing-coverts (especially the 

 proximal greater and middle coverts) margined terminally with pale 

 buffy brown or brownish white, wing-spots much less distinct and 

 dull dusky brown, and under parts minutely freckled. 



Southeastern Mexico, in State of Vera Cruz (Jalapa; Orizaba; 

 Omealca; Jocuila), and southward through Guatemala (Calderas, 

 Volcan de Fuego, 7,000-8,000 ft.), Costa Kica (Birrfs de Cartago; 

 Cot de Cartago; Estrella de Cartago; Volcan de Irazti, 8,000 ft.; 

 Volcan de Turrialba), Panama (Boquete; Volcan de Chiriqul, 3,000 

 to 7,000 ft.), Colombia (Bogota), and Ecuador (Monji; San Rafael; 

 Juna) to Peru (Huasampilla; Rio Cadena) and Venezuela (Caracas; 

 Culata near Merida, 3,000 meters). 



Peristera mondetowa Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., xlii, 1856, 765, 957; xliii, 1856, 

 944, 949 (Caracas, Venezuela); Rev. et Mag. de Zool., 1856, 248; Icon. Pig., 

 1857, pi. 126, figs. 1, 2. — Reichenbach, Tauben, i, 1862, 164. — Lawrence, 

 Ann. Lye. N. Y., ix, 1868, 139 (Birris de Cartago, Costa Rica; crit.).— 

 Frantzius, Joum. fur Orn., 1869, 371 (Costa Rica). — Sclater, Froc. Zool. 

 Soc. Lond., 1873, 780, 783 (Huasampilla, Peru).— Salvin, Ibis, 1874, 99 

 (Volcan de Fuego, Guatemala; crit.). — Stjmichrast, La Naturaleza, v, 1881, 

 232 (Omealca and Jocuila, Vera Cruz).— Taczanowski and Berlepsch, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. Lond., 1885, 111 (San Rafael, Ecuador).— Zeledon, Proc. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., viii, 1885, 112 (Costa Rica); Anal. Mus. Nac. C. R., i, 1888, 127 

 (Cot de Cartago, Costa Rica). — Taczanowski, Orn. du Perou, iii, 1886, 251, 

 Tables, p. 102— Allen; Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., ii, 1889, 151 (Bogota, Colom- 

 bia; crit.).— Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxi, 1893, 495 (Jalapa, Vera 

 Cruz; Volcan de Fuego, Guatemala; Colombia; Venezuela; Monji and Juna, 

 Ecuador; Huasampilla, Peru). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., 

 Aves, iii, 1902, 256 (Jalapa and Orizaba, Vera Cruz; Calderas, Volcan de 

 Fuego, Guatemala, 7,000-8,000 ft.; Birris, Cartago, and Volcan de Irazu, 

 Costa Rica; Boquete and Volcan de Chiriqui, 3,000-7,000 ft., Panama; Colom- 

 bia; Venezuela; Ecuador; Peru). — Berlepsch and Stolzmann, Ornis, xiii, 

 1906, 125 (Rio Cadena, Peru). 



[Peristera] mondetoura Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 242, no. 9366. — Sclater and 

 Salvin, Norn. Av. Neotr., 1873, 133.— Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 82 — 

 Forbes and Robinson, Bull. Liverp. Mus., ii, 1900, 142. 



Claravis mondetoura Oberholser, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., June 2, 1892, 203. — 

 Bangs, Proc. New Engl. Zool. Club, iii, 1902, 23 (Boquete and Volcan de 

 CMriqui, 3,000-7,000 ft., Panama). — Carriker, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vi, 1910, 

 401 (Cartago, La Estrella de Cartago, Volcan de Irazu at 8,000 ft., and Volcan 

 de Turrialba, Costa Rica). 



(?) C[olumba] melancholim Tschudi, in Wiegmann's Arcbiv fur Naturg., x, pt. i, 

 1844, 306 (Peru). 



Peristera lansbergii Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, iv, no. 35 (Columbae), 1873, 139 

 (Caracas, Venezuela; coll. Leyden Mus.). 



Peristera lansbergi Salvin, Ibis, 1874, 455 (crit.). — Sharpe, Ibis, 1875, 50, foot- 

 note. 



