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 409. Columba purpureotincta Ridgw. 



? Colnmha vhtacea Temm. & Knip (nee Gm.) (ex Cayenne). 



Cohm.ba purjmreotincta Ridg\y., Pr. U.S. A'o(. Mus. (1887) p. 594 (ex Demerara). 



Coliimha pUimbea partim (nee Vieill.) Salvad., Gil. Birth Brit. Mus. XXI. p. 323 ff. 



C. capite supra, collo et corpore subtns laete griseo-vinaceis, nucha nitore 

 amethystina violaceo resplendente, dorso alis caudaque fascis, dorso siipeviore 

 iiropygio et cauda snpra pins minnsve violaceo-vinaceo lavatis, dorso medio alisqne 

 brnnneo-aeneis vix violaceo indntis, tectricibus subalaribns rnfescente-brunneis, 

 remigibns pogonio interno pins minnsve rnfescente marginatis, rostro nigro, pedibus 

 rubris. 



Obs. : C. C. nigrirostris dictae maxime affinis nt videtnr sed corpore snbtns 

 magis griseo-vinaceo minns rnfescente, uropygio caudaque supra vinaceo-violaceo 

 tinctis, canda subtns nigrescentiore necnon rostro minore. 



SS al. 160, 154. cand. 126, 125. culm. 13i, 11|. tars. 21 i, 21 mm. 

 5 156 V^'i I'^i 21 J 



Habitat : in regionibus fl. Orinoco dicti, Ecnadoriae or., et Peruviae or. septr. 



This is probably the T. vinaeea Temm. (nee (jrml.) ex Cayenne, but it is clearly 

 distinct from C. pliunhea, with which Count Salvadori has united it. 



It is a much smaller bird than C. jdumbea, with a rather shorter bill, and it 

 is more vinous on the head and neck and on the uuderparts of the body. Also the 

 under wing-coverts are rufescent brown instead of being greyish brown, and the 

 inner webs of the remiges are more or less margined with rufescent. In fact, it 

 seems to be the southern representative of C. n/qn'rostris Scl. of Cetitral America, 

 which it resembles very much, but it has the underparts of the body mnch darker, 

 more greyish vinaceous, less rufescent, and the rump and the upperside of the tail 

 are more or less suffused with violaceous vinaceous, this being never the case in 

 C. nigrirostris. The tail underneath is much blacker, and the bill is rather smaller 

 and weaker. 



Specimens from Eastern Ecuador and Upper Amazonia in Mus. H. v. B. 

 agree with the birds from Maipures. 



Maipnres : Si ad. 10, 22, 28. xii. (bis) '98 ; ? ? ad. 28, 31. xii. '98. " Iris 

 heliotrope-jiurijle ; feet dark rose-purple (reddish rose-purple) ; bill black ; eyelids 

 burnt carmine." 



(Nos. 11630, 11U31, 11032, 11419, 11582, 116U1 Cberrie coll.) 



410. Columba rufiua Temm. k Knip. 



Columba rufinti Tern. & Knip Piij. I. (1808-11) p. 59, pi. 24. " La Guiane f ranc^aise," etc. Wc 

 aecept Cayenne as typ. hab. 



Altagracia : cJc? 18, 19 (ter), 20 (bis), 24, 30. xi. 2, 3, 4. xii. "97 ; ? ? 2, 13, 

 14. xi. '97, 1. xii., ad. 18. xi. '97. 



Caicara : " J " juv. 8. iii. '98. 



Maipures: 6 29. xii. '98. "Iris rose red ('dark-seal brown 'j; teet rose-red 

 (lake-red) ; bill black ; claws dusky (black)." 



(Nos. 8606, 8700, 8730, 8731, 8732, 8747, 8748, 8815, 8816, 8942, 8950, 8906, 

 8967, 8992, 9i)16, 10418, 11651 Cherrie coll.) 



