Cory on the Birds of the West Indies. 2 1 9 



Sp. Char. — Forehead brownish, shading into green on the top of the 

 head; sides of the neck and upper back bright metaUic green, 

 becoming bright purple with bluish reflections on reaching the 

 back; stripe of white on the cheeks, passing from the lower man- 

 dible ; rest of upper parts dark olive green ; upper portion of throat 

 dull white; becoming brown with greenish reflections on the breast; 

 underparts dull purplish white, becoming dull w-hite on thebellj; 

 under tail-coverts chestnut brown, tipped with white; primaries 

 deep rufous chestnut, olive at tips; tail-feathers, except the two 

 central ones, chestnut, shading to dull olive at the tip. 

 Length, 11; wing, 6.50; tail. 5; tarsus, 1.25; bill, .70. 

 Habitat. Guadeloupe, Santa Lucia, and Grand Terra. 



Geotrygon caniceps Gundl. 



Columba caniceps Gundl. Journ. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. VI, p. 315 (1852). 



Geotrygon caniceps Gundl. J. f. O. 1856, p. no. — Brewer. Pr. Bost. Soc. 

 Nat. Hist. VII, p. 307 (1S60). — Gundl. Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, 

 I, p. 300 (1866) ; ib. J. f. O. 1874, p. 295. — ScL. & Salv. Nom. 

 Avium Neotr. p. 134 (1S73). — Cory, List Bds. W. I. p. 24 (1885). 



Sp. Char. Male: — Forehead whitish, shading into slate color on the top 

 of the head; the feathers of the nape showing greenish and purple 

 reflections when held in the light; back purple ; rump steel blue, 

 showing greenish reflections in the light; throat pale, becoming 

 slaty on the breast, with slight reflections in the light; underparts 

 pale slate color, showing rufous on the abdomen, and deep ruious 

 brown on the crissum ; under surface of wing reddish brown ; pri- 

 maries olive brown, showing rufous brown on the inner webs. 



The sexes are similar. 



Length (skin), 10.50; wing, 6 ; tail, 3.50; tarsus, 1.20. 

 Habitat. Cuba. 



Geotrygon montana (Linn.). 



Columba montana Linn. Sjst. Nat. I, p. 2S1 (1766).— Gmel. S\-st. Nat. I, 



p. 772 (1788).— Sundev. Oefv. K. Vet. Akad. For. 1869, p. 601. 

 Peristera montana Gray, Gen. Bds. II, p. 475 (1844-49). 

 Geotrygon montana GossE, Bds. Jam. p. 320 (1S47). — Bp. Consp. II, p. 72 



(1854). —Cab. J. f. O. 1856, p. 109.— Salle, P. Z. S. 1S57, p. 235.— 



Brewer, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. VII, p. 307 (i860).— Scl. P. Z. S. 



1861, p. 80. — Albrecht, J. f. O. 1862, p. 204. — March, Pr. Acad. 



Nat. Sci. Phila. 1863, p. 300. — Taylor, Ibis, 1S64, p. 171.— Gundl. 



J. f. O. 1874, p. 2()\\ib. Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. VII, p. 34S (1878). 



— Lawr. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1, p. 487 (1878).— Lister, Ibis, iSScp. 



43.— Allen, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, V, p. 169 (1880).— A. & E. 



Newton, Handb. Jamaica, p. 114 (1881). — Cory, Bds. Haiti & San 



