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68 PERISTERID. 
G. lawrencii similis, sed olivascenti-brunnea, pileo postico cum collo postico et laterali sordide purpureo, 
olivaceo vel neo nitente; fronte alba, vertice canescente ; facie laterali et gula albis; pectore toto 
sordide cinereo, purpureo et olivaceo nitente; abdomine et subcaudalibus ochraceis, hypochondriis 
brunnescentibus ; subalaribus et remigibus intas cinnamomeis. Long. tota circa 8°5, ale 5:3, caude 2°6, 
culm. 0°75, tarsi 1-4. (Deser. avis adulti ex Veragua. Mus. nostr.) 
Hab. Costa Rica, Talamanca (Cooper*); Panama, Agua Dulce (Boucard*°), Veragua 
(Merritt }2, Arcé*), Montafia del Vermejo (Arcé *). 
Though at first sight similar to @. lawrencii, this species is distinguished by several 
trenchant characters, especially the cinnamon-colour on the lining of the quills, a 
feature which has induced Count Salvadori to place G. veraguensis in a separate section 
of the genus Geotrygon, apart from G. lawrencii. It differs from the latter in its more 
dingy colour above and in the dull grey breast, but especially in the ochraceous hue of 
the abdomen and under tail-coverts; otherwise, in the white face and its peculiar 
markings, the affinity of G. veraguensis with G. lawrencii is very evident. 
It has been pointed out 3 that some of the specimens in the British Museum show 
a tinge of rufous on the forehead and cheeks, and that they have no grey on the vertex ; 
these, he thinks, are probably females. Such an example formed the type of Lawrence's 
G. veraguensis, which was examined by Salvin in America, and was also lent by 
Professor J. A. Allen to Count Salvadori. Salvin made a sketch of the type, when it 
was “under glass” in Dr. Merritt’s possession, and from this sketch the plate in the 
‘Ibis’ was drawn 2. This plate was not quite accurate as regards some small details, 
to which attention has already been drawn °. 
G. rufiventris was described by Lawrence from Costa Rica‘, but it ‘has not been 
met with again in that country, and all our specimens have been obtained from Panama. 
There can, however, be little doubt that G. rufiventris, of which we give a figure, is the 
same as G. veraguensis, as determined by Count Salvadori, though we have never had 
any Costa Rican specimens before us. 
M. Boucard met with this Ground-Dove at Agua Dulce, in the State of Panama, 
and states that it was rather rare and difficult to detect, frequenting the ground in the 
tropical forests and feeding upon seeds and, probably, insects. G. veraguensis was 
originally discovered by Dr. Merritt in the district of El Mineral de Veraguas, on the 
north-eastern slope of the Cordillera, to the south-eastward of the Chiriqui Lagoon, a 
locality which he described to Salvin as being exceedingly humid and entirely clothed 
with the densest tropical forest; there the bird was quite common. 
6. Geotrygon albifacies. 
Peristera mexicana, G. R. Gray, List Galline Brit. Mus. p. 15 (1844) (descr. nulla) *. 
Peristera albifacies, G. R. Gray, List Columbe Brit. Mus. p. 55 (1856) (descr. nulla) *. 
Geotrygon albifacies, Scl. P. Z. S. 1858, p. 98°; 1859, pp. 368*, 891°; Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1860, 
p- 401°; Ex. Orn. p.123"; Sumichr. La Nat. v. p. 232°; Ridgw. Man. N. Am. B. p. 217°; 
Salv. & Godm. Ibis, 1892, p. 8328*°; Salvad. Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xxi. p. 581". 
