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higris vel cinereis ; corporis lateribus et tibiis brunneis; subalaribus et axillaribus nigricantibus brunneo 
lavatis, remigibus infra sordide cinereis : rostro nigro; pedibus rubris. Long. tota circa 9:0, ala 5:6, 
caudex 25, culm. 0°75, tarsi 1°55. (Descr. avis typ. ex Veragua. Mus. nostr.) 
Juv. adultis similis, sed ubique sordidior, fronte cineracea; corpore subtus sordide brunneo, plumis singulis 
anguste ochraceo marginatis, 
Hab. Panama, Santa Fé 2, Calobre (Arcé!), Boquete and Volcan de Chiriqui, 7000- 
10,000 feet (Brown 4). 
This species has the quill-linings ashy, not rufous, and is also distinguished by the 
grey chest and breast, as well as by the pure white forehead, face, and throat, with a 
distinct moustachial line of black. 
Its habits doubtless do not differ from those of the other Ground-Pigeons of the 
forest-regions, but nothing has been recorded on the subject. 
4. Geotrygon costaricensis. 
Geotrygon costaricensis, Lawr. Ann. Lyc. N. Y. ix. p. 186°; v. Frantz. J. f. Orn. 1869, p. 3717; 
Rowley, Orn. Mise. iii. p. 45, t. 87°; Boucard, P. Z. S. 1878, p.43*; Ridgw. Pr. U.S. Nat. 
Mus. v. pp. 498°, 502°; Zeledon, An. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, 1887, p. 1277; Salvad. Cat. 
Birds Brit. Mus, xxi. p. 577°. 
Supra saturate purpurascenti-rufa, violaceo lavata. G. lawrencii similis, sed regione parotica postica cinereo 
lavata, collo postico clariore viridi, et pectore letiore cinereo distinguenda. Long. tota circa 10:0, 
alee 5°6, caude 2-7, culm. 0:8, tarsi 1-4. 
mari similis, sed supra sordide olivascenti-brunnea, dorso medio purpuraceo vix a femina G. lawrencii dis- 
tinguenda. Long. tota circa 10-0, ale 5-6. (Deser. maris et femine ex Cartago, Costa Rica. Mus. Brit.) 
Hab. Costa Rica!, San José (Van Patten ®), Las Cruces de la Candelaria 2 (v. Frantzius), 
Candelaria Mts. (Boucard3*), Volcan de Irazu (Nutting®), Azahar de Cartago, 
Kstrella de Cartago, Turrialba, Carillo (Underwood, in latt.), Rancho Redondo 
(Zeledon *). 
The true G. dawrencii is replaced in Costa Rica by this species. We have only been 
able to compare females of the two forms, having no fully adult male of G. lawrencii 
before us; but there can be no doubt that the Costa Rican bird is much paler in colour 
than its Panama representative, both as regards the grey of the chest and the green 
of the mantle. The male has the upper surface purplish-red, and the corresponding 
sex of G. lawrencit will doubtless be found to be similar, but probably of a deeper tint. 
M. Boucard* found G. costaricensis on the Candelaria Mountains, at a height of 
3000 to 4000 feet; the birds were always on the ground, scratching, like chickens, in 
search of insects and seeds. Mr. Nutting ® says that they were not very common on the 
Volcan de Irazu, and were met with only in the densest parts of the forest. 
5. Geotrygon veraguensis. (G. rufiventris, Tab. LXX.) 
Geotrygon veraguensis, Lawr. Ann. Lyc. N. Y. viii. p. 3491; Salv. Ibis, 1874, p. 328, t. 12?; 
Salvad. Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xxi. p. 575°. 
Geotrygon rufiventris, Lawr. Ann. Lyc. N. Y. xi. p. 90‘; Rowley, Orn. Mise. iii. p. 77, t. 93%. 
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