Columbigallina passerina Oct. 28 5 km N Villavieja, 1400ft, Huila, Colombia, S.A. Numbers have been seen almost every time I have been out collecting. They are commonly seen along the low Eriodictyon-like bushes growing on semi-permanent silt bars in the quebrada, and also frequently seen along the more open portions of scrub growing along small side-tributaries of the quebrada. However, I also have seen them in the more dense patches of brush, both arid & riparian. In the dense brush they usually have drawn my attention by the scuffling noise they make in the leaves, walking along on the ground. Local name (general) is "Tortulita" Oct. 30 Common all over in vicinity of Cebatana Camp and areas where I have collected. However, however, do they seem to me to be as common as the rusty-chocolate dove of about the same size. Paulino has found a nest (which I believe to be of this species) about 50 ft S. of the tents. It is in a small thorny tree (10 ft?), close to the trunk, about 4ft off the ground. It contains 2 eggs. I find a note written in Bogota' to the effect that Sr.