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Geotrygon mariinica Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mxis., xxi, 1893, 570 (Guade- 

 loupe; Dominica; Santa Lucia; Martinique). 



G[eotrygon] inartinica martinica'BA'NGS, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xviii, June 9, 1905, 

 153, in text. 



C[olumba] cuprea Wagler, Syst. Av., 1827, Columba, sp. 76 (Martinique; based 

 on Columba violacea martinicana Brisson, Orn., i, 129, pi. 12, fig. 1; PI. Enl., 

 pi. 162; etc.). 



P[eristera] cuprea Selby, Jardine's Naturalists' Libr., v. Pigeons, 1835, pi. xxv. — 

 Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1845, 476.— (?) Reichenbach, Syn. Av., 1847, fig. 1439. 



Columba montana (not of Linnseus, 1758) Lesson, Compl. Buffon, Ois., viii, 1837, 

 6, part; 2d ed., 1838, 270. 



P[erislera\ montana Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1845, 476. 



Geotrygon montana Lawrence, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 1878, 67 (Dominica; 

 habits; descr. eggs), 196 (St. Vincent; habits); i, 1879, 360 (Martinique; 

 habits), 487 (Guadeloupe; Dominica; Martinique; St. Vincent). — Allen, 

 Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, v, 1880, 169 (Santa Lucia).— Cory, Ibis, 1886, 473 

 (St. Vincent); Auk, iv, 1887, 96 (Martinique); viii, 1891, 48 (Guadeloupe); 

 Bii-ds West Ind., 1889, 219, part; Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 97 (Guade- 

 loupe; Dominica; Martinique; Santa Lucia; St. Vincent). — Sclater, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. Lond., 1889, 395 (Santa Lucia).— Verrill (G. E.), Trans. Conn. 

 Ac. Arts and Sci., viii, 1892, 324 (Dominica; habits; descr. nest and eggs; 

 fresh colors of unfeathered parts). — Clark (A. H.), Axik, xx, 1905, 262, part 

 (extinct on St. Vincent); Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xxxii, 1905, 263, part (St. 

 Vincent); West Ind. Bull., xi, no. 3, 1911, 183 (Santa Lucia). 



Geotrygon martinica digressa Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xviii, June 9, 1905, 

 153 (Guadeloupe Island, Lesser Antilles; coll. E. A. and O. Bangs). 



OREOPELEIA MONTANA (Linnaeus). 



RUDDY QUAIL-DOVE. 



Similar to 0. martinica, but decidedly smaller and lighter in color. 



Adult male. — General color of upper parts chestnut or rufous- 

 chestnut, fading into cinnamon-rufous on forehead, the wings some- 

 what lighter and more cinnamomeous, especially on distal portion of 

 primaries, the hindneck and back (sometimes nape and occiput also) 

 faintly glossed with metallic reddish purple; a broad stripe of pinkish 

 cinnamon (more or less deep), involving anterior portion of malar 

 region and extending beneath bare orbital space, to (sometimes 

 across) auricular region; beneath this (except anteriorly) a broad 

 stripe or elongated patch of chestnut or rufous-chestnut, confluent 

 posteriorly with the similar color of the hindneck; chin and throat light 

 pinkish cinnamon, the former paler, sometimes buff y whitish ; fore- 

 necli and chest vinaceous-f a^vn color to mikado brown (more rarely) , 

 fading, through light vinaceous-cinnamon or buff-pink on breast, into 

 warm buff (more or less deep) on more posterior under parts, the 

 sides and flanks tinged more or less with buffy cinnamon or clay 

 color, the under tail-coverts paler buffy cinnamon or dull cinnamon- 

 buff, fading into buff on margins; axillars and whole under side of 

 wing dull light cinnamon-rufous or pecan brown; bill purplish red 

 to blood red. the tip brownish or dusky; bare orbital space, legs, and 



