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ter 80. On September 30 I found the species common on the heavily
forested hill known as the Cerro Lorito, on the eastern bank of the
Paraguay River.
Notes on LeptotUa made in Tucuman are placed here with reser-
vation. At Taipa from April 7 to 13, 1921, the birds ranged in
fair numbers through the dry forests. At this season they were
silent and their presence was unsuspected save when they chanced
to flush wuth a rattle of wings. Above Tafi Viejo on April 17, oc-
casional wood pigeons flushed near the winding trail that traversed
the lower slopes of the Cumbre San Xavier. Betw^een 2,000 and
2,500 meters 15 or 20 were scattered through a small, rather open
grove of tree alders, where they flushed from the ground with a
rattle of wings, and flew up to concealed perches among the yellowed
leaves that still clung to the branches, or when driven from the
shelter of the grove darted swiftly down the steep slopes to more
secure cover in the denser forest below. Many of them, like a female
that I killed, were in dark brown immature plumage. In the immature
bird secured, though the outer primary is narrow, the in-
cision at the tip is much less pronounced than in adults, as the ex-
tremity of the feather measures 5 mm. in width. In adult birds
it is barely more than 2 mm. at this point.
LEPTOTILA OCHROPTERA CHLORAUCHENIA Giglioli and Salvadori
Leptoptila chloratichenia Giglioli and SALVAnoRi, Atti. Roy. Acad. Scienz.
Torino, vol. 5, pt. 2, 1870, p. 274. (Ef-.tancia Trinidad, Montevideo,
Uruguay.)
Names for the southern wood pigeon are in confusion and the
usage followed, while that of custom, is considered tentative, Lep-
toptila ochroptera was published in the third part of Pelzeln's
Ornithologie Brasiliens, dated (on the original cover) 1870. As
this part of Pelzeln's work is mentioned in the abstract of the meeting
of the Deutsche Ornithologische Gesellschaft of Berlin for February
1, 1870,^2 we may assume that it appeared in January of that year.
Leptoptila chalcauchenia was proposed by Sclater and Salvin before
a meeting of the Zoological Society of London for December D,
1869, and appeared in the last part of the Proceedings of that organi-
zation for 1869, which, if the usual custom was followed, was printed
in March or April, 1870. Leptoptila chlorauchenia Giglioli and
Salvadori read before a meeting in Turin on January 2, 1870, was
published in the issue of Atti Royale Accademie Scienze for January,
1870, a number that includes a Summary of meetings from January 2
to January 30, so that it probably appeared in February or later.
It was also published in the Ibis for April, 1870 (p. 186). From
^- See Journ. fur Ornith., 1870, p. 153.