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Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



g%. Upper tail-coverts olive-brown like back, lower buffy 



cream-color; chest dark grayish-olive, spots on 



wings purple. Claravis mondetoura, 9 • 



ff. Larger (wing 200); a narrow white nuchal collar; hind 



neck bright metallic-green. 



Colicmba albilinea crissalis, $ & 9 • 



19. Columba speciosa Gmelin. 



Columba speciosa Gmelin, Syst. Nat. I, 1788, 783. — Zeledon, An. Mus. Nac. 



de C. R., I, 1887, 127 (Costa Rica). — Salvaeori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 



XXI, 1893, 281 (Mexico and through Central America to Peru). — Salvin 



and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, III, 233 (Buenos Aires [Underwood]). 



— Bangs, Auk, XXIV, 1907, 291 (Boruca and Paso Real [Underwood]). 



Bangs Collection : El General de Terraba (Underwood). 

 Carnegie Museum : Boruca (Carriker). Four skins. 



Three males from Costa Rica agree very closely with a single male 

 from Santa Marta, Colombia, and with another from British Honduras, 

 but the single female has the pileum bright cinnamon-rufous, while in 

 birds from British Honduras and Santa Marta it is deep vinaceous, as 

 in the male. This may be due to immaturity, for one very young 

 bird from British Honduras has the fore part of the crown light brown. 



This beautiful pigeon is found only in the southwestern part of the 

 country, probably not outside of the Terraba Valley. It is abundant 

 about Boruca and Buenos Aires, where it frequents the second growth 

 woodland and the trees along the borders of the "sabanas." Many 

 young birds were seen about Buenos Aires during August. 



20. Columba flavirostris minima subsp. nov. 



Columba flavirostris Wagler, Isis, 1831, 519 (Mexico). — ZeledoN, An. Mus. 

 Nac. de C. R., I, 1887, 127 (Cartago, Turrialba, Alajuela and El Zarcero de 

 Alajuela). — Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XXI, 1893, 285 (Costa Rica 

 [J. Carmiol], Dota [Zeledon] ). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., 

 Aves, III, 234 (Laguna de Coris, Tambor, Cuadros de Irazu, Tres Rios, 

 Sarchi, Candelaria [Underwood]). 



Chloroznas flavirostris Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y. , IX, 1868, 134 (Barranca 

 [J. Carmiol], Dota [Zeledon]). — Frantzius, Jour, fiir Orn., 1869, 370 

 (Costa Rica). 



U. S. Nat. Museum: Guayabo (Ridgway & Zeledon), Coliblanco 



(Ridgway), Naranjo de Cartago (Alfaro & Zeledon). 

 Bangs Collection : Juan Vinas and Bolson (Underwood). 

 C. H. Lankester Collection : Tuis. 

 Carnegie Museum : Bagaces and Ciruelas (Carriker). Three skins. 



