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The female differs very decidedly from that of pallescens in being 

 very dusky below, almost buffy-drab with a slight vinaceous tint while 

 the former is decidedly grayish below without buffy or vinaceous ; the 

 wings and upper parts are also much darker. C. p. granatina (female) 

 is entirely grayish-white below, with the wings very pale. 



Abundant over the entire plateau region and northern portion of the 

 Pacific slope and lowlands, extending rarely into the Caribbean plain. 

 In the Terraba region it seems to be supplanted by the two following 

 species of the genus. 



28. Chaemepelia minuta (Linnaeus). 



Columba minuta LiNN/EUS, Syst. Nat., I, 1766, 285. 



Chccmepelia minuta Bangs, Auk, XXIV, 1907, 292 (Paso Real de Terraba, July 

 [Underwood] ). 



Carnegie Museum : Buenos Aires de Terraba. Five specimens 



(Carriker). 



As far as known at the present time the only locality occupied by 

 this little dove is the upper portion of the Terraba Valley, chiefly on 

 the " sabanas " surrounding Buenos Aires, where it is fairly abundant. 

 Its presence here is very unusual, since it is apparently an isolated 

 colony. It seems to be abundant from British Honduras to southern 

 Mexico and is again found sparingly in Panama, but has never been 

 recorded in any other part of Costa Rica, Nicaragua, or Chiriqui. 



Its habits are essentially the same as those of the other species of 

 the genus, and at Buenos Aires it is found in company with C. rufi- 

 pennis rufipennis. 



29. Chaemepelia rufipennis rufipennis (Bonaparte). 



Talpacotia rufipennis BONAPARTE Consp. Avium, II, 1854, 79. 



Cha?nccpelia rufipennis Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., IX, 1868, 139 (San Jose 



[J. Carmiol]). — Frantzius, Jour, fur Orn., 1869, 372 (Orosi). — Boucard, 



Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1878, 43 (Puntarenas, May). — Salvadori, Cat. 



Birds Brit. Mus., XXI, 1893, 487 (Costa Rica [Endres] ). — tSalvin and 



Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, III, 1902, 253 (Costa Rican references). 



Columbigallina rufipennis ZeledoN, An. Mus. Nac. de Costa Rica, I, 1887, 127 



(Las Trojas). — Cherrie, Expl. Zool. en C. R., 1891-2, 1893, 53 (Terraba 



Valley). 

 Chamcepelia talpacoti rtifipennis Nutting, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., V, 1882, 408 



(La Palma de Nicoya). 

 Chcemepelia rufipennis rufipennis Bangs, Auk, XXIV, 1907, 292 (Boruca, El 



Pozo, and Barranca de Terraba [Underwood]). 



