(48) 

 l-">8. Leptotila rufaxilla (Hicli. >t Bern.). 



Cohimhn nifttoriVa Richard & Bernard, Ail. Soc. Uist. Nat. Paris i. (1792) p. 118 (Cayenne). 



c? ? ?, Caparo, April ; c? ? , Cliagiianas, May ; ?, Valencia, Marcli. 



Most of tlu'so specimeii.s are rather darlcer, more rufuns on foreneck and breast 

 than others from the mainland of Veneznela, lint the dill'irence is nut ijiiite 

 constant. 



liiO. Geotrygou sp. 



Pet-htrra frnmid (nee Tscliudi I) .Tardiiie, Ann. Miiij. Nal. Hid. xx. (1847) p. 374 (Tobago). 

 P. liiiearia (nee Prevost <t Knip !) Lrotand. 0/.v. Trinnhitl, p. .'i7.*i (Trinidad). 



There can be scarcely any donlit that a species of (Jcofri/i/o/i inhabits the 

 monntainnns jiarts of Trinidad, althonn'ii it has not been collected there of late years. 

 Kirk sent it from Tobago, bnt, nnlbrtunately, his specimens seem to have been 

 lust — at least they are not in the Britisli nor in the Tring Jlnseum. As the nearest 

 allies occur in the Andes of Merida (G. liiiciiri.s i:('/ic:/tr/e/i.vs Salvad.) and 

 Colombia {G. I. linearis), the birds inhabiting Trinidad and Tobago form most likelv 

 a dillerent sjiecies or subspecies. 



160. Pipile pipile (Jacqn.). 



Criir pipilr Jacquin, Bri/li: GexiJi. Viigel (1784) p. 20. tali. 11. (1784: ''Am Orenokofluase bei 



Kumana ") unde : 

 Pipile Jacqiiini Reicbenbach, Oiliimli. p. 154. 



Penelope cuinanrnxix (uec Jacquin !) Li'otaiul, Oix, Triniihiil (ISl)!)) p. .'i8.^ (Trinidad). 

 r, pile pipilr Cliapman, Bull. Amn: Miis. vi. (1804) p. 74 (Trinidad); Ilvllmayr, Hull. Bril. Orn. CI. 



xiv. No. 10-, (March 1904) p. f>;t (Trinidad). 



One ?, killed at Caparo, Trinidad, Ajiril I'.i, 1'.)U2. "Iris brown, liill blade, 

 feet red." Wing, 345 ; tail, 30(J ; bill, 331 mm. 



This bird is, no doubt, of the same species as those fignred by Jaciinin and 

 described by Leotaud and Chapman. As I have shown in a note, jinblished in the 

 Bull. Brit. CI. .\iv. p. 59, it is quite distinct from /'. CKm(nu'iini.'<, with which it has 

 generally been confounded. In fact, it is more nearly related to P. cujiilii (VAz.), 

 bnt there are some differences whicli serve to distingnish it at a glance. The 

 feathers of the pilenm are mainly blackish brown with only narrow while edges 

 laterally, which in P. ciijiili Ava much broailer; the middle upper wing-coverts are 

 ])nre white except the extreme base and a large blackish brown tiji, while in 

 /'. r//y///!i/ they are blackish brown willi a short white stripe on each margin ; the 

 white on the greater series, too, is much more extended in the Trinidad bird, 

 occupying nearly the whole outer web except the dark-colonred tiji and reaching 

 almost to the shaft. In P. ci/Jiihi, however, there is only a narrow white margin 

 along the second third of the outer web. In the jiurplisli gloss of the jilnmage 

 both species agree, as they do also in the amonnt of the naked skin on the sides of 

 the head and on the throat. In both there are but very faint indications of white 

 edgings on some of the feathers on the foreneck. I may add that the bare skin of 

 the throat in the Trinidad specimen looks uniform dark grey, whih' in /', nijnhi 

 the lower jiart is decidedly reildish tlesh-coloiired. A better series of both species 

 is rctpiircd to confirm the constancy of this character or otherwise. 



i'.7W«//fly« (Spix) is ijnite distinct from P. jii/iilc and /'. nijuhi, having the 

 chin and anteriiir ]iart of the throat as well as the sides of the head densely i-overed 

 with ileep black feathers. Moreover, the forehead is broadly black, and the feathers 

 of the |iili'nm have only hair-like blackish shaft-lines. 



