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The specimen taken, a male, belongsto the western subspecies as in- 
dicated by the paler brown of the tertials, back, and rump, when com- 
pared with eastern birds. While many western birds are paler below 
also some have the breast and foreneck as dark as some of the eastern 
race. 
ZENAIDA ASIATICA ASIATICA (Linnaeus): Eastern White-winged Dove 
Columba asiatica LINNAEUS, Systema naturae, ed 10, vol. 1, 1758, p. 163 (Jamaica) , 
Near Liberia white-winged doves were found in small numbers near 
areas of small, cultivated fields. I shot a female here on October 31. 
There is considerable variation in depth of color in birds of this 
species so that in the small series from Costa Rica at hand I cannot 
distinguish the race australis that Peters has described® from the west- 
ern part of that country. I have at hand specimens from Veracruz, 
México, and elsewhere that are just as dark as those from the Pacific 
slope of Costé Rica. 
SCARDAFELLA INCA (Lesson): Inca Dove 
Chamaepelia inca Lesson, Oeuvres complétes de Buffon, vol. 20, 1847, p. 211 
(México). 
In the vicinity of Liberia the Inca dove was fairly common so that 
two or three or more were noted nearly every day that I was afield. 
Their monotonous coo-cod is rendered by the country man as San Juan, 
San Juan, which gives this species its local name. One taken on 
October 19 had developing ovaries. A male was shot on October 29. 
These two birds, when compared with specimens from Nicaragua 
northward, are definitely paler below, the pinkish vinaceous breast 
being lighter and the abdomen clearer white. The species is here at 
its extreme southern limit and may be represented by a distinct form, 
a matter to be checked carefully with more material. 
COLUMBIGALLINA PASSERINA NEGLECTA (Carriker) 
Chaemepelia passerina neglecta CARRIKER, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vol. 6, 1910, 
pp. 390 and 398 (Esparta, Costa Rica). 
In the vicinity of Liberia these doves were common, being seen 
daily during work in that area. ‘Toward the mountains to the east- 
ward they continued to a little below Las Delicias but were not 
recorded higher. Three were taken on October 20, 27, and 29. 
CLARAVIS PRETIOSA (Ferrari-Perez) 
Peristera pretiosa FERRARI-PEREZ, Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., vol. 9, 1886, p. 175 
(Brazil). 
A male of this ground dove was taken on October 27 in an area of 
wooded pastures south of Liberia, and two more of the same sex 
were seen here October 30. 
& Melopelia asratica australis Peters, Auk, 1913, p. 372 (Cerro Santa Maria, Costa Rica). 
