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tinged with brighter or clearer vinaceous-drab ; axillars and under 

 wing-coverts nearly concolor with breast, but slightly tinged with 

 cinnamon; under surface (inner webs) of remiges grayish brown; bill 

 black; legs and feet pale brownish (probably purplish red in life); 

 length (skin), 272; wing, 153; tail, 119; exposed culmen, 13; tarsus, 

 20; middle toe, 23.5.'^ 



Western Panama (Chiriqui). 



(Encenas cJiiriquensis Ridgway, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xxviii, June 29, 1915, 139 

 (Chiriqui, Panama; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.).) 



Genus ECTOPISTES Swainson. 



Ectopistes Swainson, Zool. Joum., iii, 1827, 362. (Type, as fixed by Swainson, 1827, 



Columba migratoria Linnseus.) 

 Trygonb (not of Cuvier, 1817) Brehm, Handb, Natui-g. Vog. Deutschl., 1831,495. 



(Type, Columba migratoria Linnseus.) 



Rather large arboreal pigeons (length about 300-460 mm.) with tail 

 very long, graduated for more than half its length, the rectrices 

 (twelve in number) narrowed terminally and obtusely pointed; wing 

 long and pointed, the longest primaries exceeding distal secondaries 

 by half the length of wing, the first and second primaries (from out- 

 side) longest; tarsus very shghtly longer than middle toe (without 

 claw), and sexes distinctly different in color of under parts. 



Bill relatively small, the length of exposed culmen about equal to 

 distance from its base to anterior angle of eye, or to length of lateral 

 toes ; greatest depth of bill equal to much less than one-third the length 

 of exposed cuhnen, the maxillary unguis very shghtly arched basally 

 and the gonydeal angle not prominent; nasal operculi very tumid; 

 frontal antia forming a minute double point, very slightly anterior to 

 malar antia. Wing long and very pointed, the longest primaries 

 exceeding distal secondaries by about haK the length of wing, the 

 first and second primaries (from outside) longest; outermost primary 

 sinuated or slightly narrowed apicaUy. Tail about as long as wing, 

 graduated for more than haK its length, the rectrices (twelve in 

 number) becoming narrower terminally, especially the middle ones, 

 wliich are obtusely pointed, the lateral ones becoming successively 

 gradually broader at tip and less attenuated; the two middle pairs 

 about equal in length. Tarsus shghtly longer than middle toe 

 (without claw), the extreme upper portion feathered in front, the 

 acrotarsium with two longitudinal rows of large, partly transverse, 

 partly hexagonal scutella, the planta tarsi covered with minute 

 roundish or hexagonal, rather indistinct, scales; middle toe very 

 shghtly shorter than tarsus (the proportional length about 1 to 1.03); 

 inner toe shghtly longer than the outer, its claw reaching to beyond 

 base of middle claw, that of the outer toe extending only to base of 



a One specimen (the type). ^ Tpvywv, the turtle dove. (Richmond.) 



