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Chloroenas nigrirostris Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., ix, 1868, 135 (Costa Rica).— 

 Frantzius, Joum. fur Om., 1869, 371 (Costa Rica).— Salvin, Ibis, 1874, 

 455, in text (Guatemala). — Zeled6n, Cat. Avea de Costa Rica, 1882, 28. 



Columba nigrirostris hrunneicauda Carriker, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vi, Sept. 7, 

 1910, 395 (Guapiles, Costa Rica; coll. Carnegie Mus.). 



(EN(ENAS PURPUREOTINCTA (Ridgway). 



PTTRPLE-TINTED PIGEON. 



Adult male. — Pileum and hindneck deep purple-drab to dark 

 vinaceous-drab, the sides of head and neck, together with foreneck 

 and chest, similar but shghtly hghter (purple-drab, sometimes tinged 

 with deep or dark vinaceous-gray ) , passing on chin and upper thi'oat 

 into bufFypale vinaceous-drab, becoming shghtly paler and more gray- 

 ish posteriorly; back, scapulars, rump, upper tail-coverts, and wings 

 plain dark ohve-brown or clove brown (sometimes tinged with bister), 

 the tail shghtly darker and more bronzy or purplish brown, the pri- 

 maries (especially distal portion of longer quills) narrowly edged with 

 paler; axiUars and under wing-coverts nearly similar in color to under 

 parts, but more or less tinged with ciimamon; under surface (inner 

 webs) of remiges dull wood brown passing into grayish brown distaUy ; 

 bill black; iris heliotrope pm'ple;*^ eyelids burnt carmine;® legs and 

 feet dark rose-purple or reddish rose-purple;" length (skins), 255-265 

 (258); wing, 146.5-149.5 (148.4); tail, 111-116 (113.2); exposed 

 culmen, 11-11.5 (11.4); tarsus, 20-21.5 (20.6) ; middle toe, 21-23.5 

 (22.5).^ 



French Guiana (Cayenne);*^ Dutch Guiana (Carimang River); 

 British Guiana (Demerara; Demerara River; Tumatumari, Potero 

 River; Bartica Grove; Camacusa; Roraima; Ourumle) and Venezuela 

 (Maipures; Rio Yuruan); island of Curasao ?;'^ eastern Ecuador;* 

 upper Amazons;* northeastern Brazil (Rio Capim) ? 



(?) C[olumba\ cayennensis Bonnaterre, Tabl. Enc. Meth., i, 1790, 234 (Cayenne; 

 based on Holandre, Abr6g6 d'Hist. Nat., ii, 214)./ 



Columba vinacea (not of Gmelin, 1789)^ Temminck, Lea Pigeons, i, fam. 

 seconde, 1808-11, 87, pi. 41 (French Guiana); Hist. Nat. Pig. et Gallin., i, 

 1813, 303 (French Guiana). — Stephens, Shaw's Gen. Zool., xi, part i, 1819, 

 84 (Guiana). — Salvin, Ibis, 1886, 173 (Roraima, Bartica Grove, and Camacusa, 

 Brit. Guiana).— (?) Goeldi, Ibis, 1903, 499 (Rio Capim, n. e. Brazil). 



oFour specimens; one of them (the type) not sexed, but the largest and brightest 

 colored of all, and therefore almost certainly a male. 



& According to George K. Cherrie (Hartert, Novit. Zool., ix, 1902, 117). 



c According to Count von Berlepsch. 



d Count von Berlepsch records " Columba pluvibea" from Curasao, which probably 

 is tliis species. 



« According to Hartert. 



/ This is undoubtedly one of the forms of this group, but which particular one it is 

 impossible to decide from the description. 



S= Turtur vinaceus (Gmelin) Gray. 



