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spotted, while others have scarcely any spots. They do not differ 

 appreciably from specimens from British Honduras. A young male 

 from the latter locality shows an interesting phase of plumage, having 

 the upper parts as in the adult female, with a blue feather appearing 

 here and there on the shoulders, while the lower parts and under wing- 

 coverts are entirely blue as in the adult male. 



One of the most abundant of the Costa Rican pigeons, ranging over 

 the lowlands of both coasts and over the entire central plateau district, 

 but being more abundant in the interior and on the Pacific lowlands, 

 especially in the southern part. They are almost, if not entirely, 

 terrestrial in their habits, alighting in trees only when alarmed or 

 roosting. They are fond of the river-banks and abandoned fields 

 where the seeds of weeds and grasses abound. 



31. Claravis mondetoura (Bonaparte). 



Peristera mondetoura BONAPARTE, Compte Rend., XLII, 1856, 765. — LAWRENCE, 

 Ann. Lye. N. Y., IX, 1868, 139 (Birris [Zeledon]). — Frantzius, Jour, fiir 

 Orn., 1869, 371 (Birris). — Zeledon, An. Mus. Mac. de C. R., I, 1887 (Cot 

 de Cartago). — Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XXI, 1893, 495 (Central 

 America). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, III, 1902, 256 

 (Irazu [Underwood]). 



Claravis mondetoura Oberholser, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1899, 233 (crit. ). 



Bangs Collection: Cartago (id^)> La Estrella de Cartago (1$) 



(Underwood). 

 Carnegie Museum: Volcan de Irazu (Carriker). One male. 



One of the rarest of the doves, and found only at the higher alti- 

 tudes in the forest, where it apparently always keeps on, or near, the 

 ground. The specimen taken on the Volcan de Irazu was secured in 

 the dense forest at an elevation of about 8,000 feet. Another was 

 seen on the Volcan de Turrialba, in October, 1907, in an extremely 

 dense piece of woodland just below timberline. 



32. Leptotila verreauxi Bonaparte. 



Leptoptila verreauxi Bonaparte, Conspec. Av., II, 1854, 73 (New Granada). — 

 Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., IX, 1868, 137 (San Jose and Barrranca [J. 

 Carmiol], Dota [F. Carmiol]). — Frantzius, Jour, fiir Orn., 1869, 371 

 (Costa Rica). — Boucard, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1878, 43 (San Jose). — 

 Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XXI, 1893, 548 (San Jose [J. Carmiol]). 

 — Underwood, Ibis, 1896, 447 (Miravalles). —Salvin and Godman, Biol. 

 Centr.-Am., Aves, III, 1902, 260 (Bellavista, Alajuela, San Lucas and 

 Bebedero [Underwood] ).— Bangs, Auk, XXIV, 1907, 292 ( Boruca, Paso 

 Real, and El Pozo de Terraba [Underwood]). 



