212 Cory on the Birds of the West Indies. 



GuNDL. Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, I, p. 298 (1S66) ; ib. J. f. O. 1S74, 

 pp. 286, 312 • ib. Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. VII, p. 343 (1S78). 



Sp. Char. Male: — Head, neck, underparts, and some of the wing-coverts 

 dull purple ; rest of plumage slaty ; edges of outer webs of some of 

 the wing-coverts white, distinctly marking the wings; chin dull 

 white. 



The sexes are similar. 



Length, 14.50; wing, 8.50; tail, 5.50; tarsus, i.io. 

 Habitat. Greater Antilles. 



Genus Engyptila Sundev. 

 Engyptila Sundevall, Stockholm Acad. Handl. 1S35. 



Engyptila jamaicensis (Linn.). 



Columba jamaicensis Linn. Syst. Nat. I, p. 283 (1766). — Gmel. Syst. Nat. 



I, p. 782 (17S8). — Temm. Hist. Gen. Pigeons, p. 495 (1S13--15). 

 Columba frontalis TemjsI. Hist. Gen. Pigeons (1813-15). 

 Goura jamaicensis Shaw, Gen. Zool. XI, p. 126 (1819). 

 Peristera jamaicensis GossE, Bds. Jam. p. 313 (1847). — Albrecht. J. f. O. 



1862, p. 204. 

 Leptoptila jamaicensis Sloane, Jam. pi. 262. — Bp. Icon. Pig. t. 119; ib. 



Consp. II, p. 73 (1864).— March, Pr. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1S63, p. 



302. — Gray, Handl. Bds. II, p. 242 (1870). — Scl. & Salv. Nom. 



Avium Neotr. p. 133 (1873). 

 Engyptila jamaicensis A. & E. Newton, Handb. Jamaica, p. 114 (1881). — 



Cory, List Bds. W. I. p. 23 (1885). 



Sp. Char. Male: — Forehead dull white, shading into slaty gray on the 

 top of the head; a cape of metallic purple, blue and gray, when 

 held in the light; rest of upper surface olive; throat dull white, 

 becoming slaty on the underparts ; flanks and belly dull white ; 

 under surface of wings bright rufous ; tail feathers slaty, tipped Avith 

 white, except the two central ones, which are pale brown ; primaries 

 pale brown. 



Length (skin), 10; wing, 6; tail, 4.25; tarsus, i; bill .75. 

 Habitat. Jamaica. 



Engyptila wellsi Lawr. 



Enn-yftila ii'cllsi Lawr. Auk, I. No 2, p. 180 (18S4). — Cory, List Bds. 

 W. I. p. 23 (18S5); ib. Revised List (18S6).— Wells, List Bds. 

 Grenada, p. 7 (1S86). 



Sp. Char. Female: — "The front is whitish, with a slight tinge of fawn 

 color on the anterioi' portion, and is of a bluish cast on the posterior : 



