476 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



OREOPELEIA MYSTACEA SAB^ (Riley). 



SABA QTTAIL-DOVE. 



Similar to 0. m. mystacea but under parts much more deeply colored, 

 the foreneck and upper chest rufescent brown (between roods brown 

 and verona brown), the under parts of body almost wholly buffy 

 cinnamon, only the center of the abdomen pale buffy; color of 

 pileum and nape much browner, and suborbital stripe, as well as 

 chin and upper thi'oat, light buff instead of white. 



Adult female. — Length (skin), 287; wing, 166; tail, 89; exposed 

 culmen, 20.5; tarsus, 32; middle toe, 26." 



Island of Saba, Lesser Antilles. 



Geotrygon sahse Riley, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xvi, Feb. 21, 1903, 13 (island of 

 Saba, Lesser Antilles; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). 



OREOPELEIA MARTINICA (Linnaus). 



MARTINIQTJE QUAIL-DOVE. 



Similar to 0. montana, but much larger and coloration darker, 

 especially on chest. 



Adult raale. — Upper parts deep chestnut or brick red, deepening 

 into rich purplish chestnut on back, scapulars, hindneck, and occi- 

 put, where faintly glossed with metaUic purple, passing into vina- 

 ceous-fawn color on forehead, the posterior portions somewhat 

 lighter chestnut; sides of head with a Hue or narrow stripe of dull 

 chestnut along lower edge of bare orbital space and an elongated 

 patch of vinaceous-chestnut involving posterior half (approximately) 

 of malar region and lower portion of auricular region, the space 

 between, extending from anterior portion of malar region to upper 

 portion of auricular region, buff-pinkish — these markings not sharply 

 defined, and sometimes rather indistinct; chin and throat deep pink- 

 ish buff or light pinkish cinnamon, passing into russet-vinaceous or 

 deep brownish vinaceous (more rarely deep vinaceous-fawn color) 

 on foreneck and chest, the remaining under parts ocliraceous-cinna- 

 mon to ochraceous-buff, the imder tail-coverts cinnamon or sayal 

 brown, margined terminally with paler; axillars and under wing- 

 coverts deep rufous-tawny to hazel ; bill yellowish horn color (red or 

 reddish in life); iris yellow,^ golden,^ orange,*' or brown;'^ legs and 

 feet red (in life); length (skins), 222-282 (264); wing, 144.5-157 



« One specimen (the type). <^ A. H. Verrill. 



&F. A. Ober. <* W. W. Brown, jr., and H. S. Branch. 



