BIEDS OP NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



487 



Adult male.— Length (skins), 209-245 (230); wing, 127-135 (132); 

 tail, 71-76.5 (74.5); exposed culmen, 15.5-18 (16.8); tarsus, 34-37 

 (35.6); middle toe, 23-26.5 (25.1).'^ 



Adult female.—Length (skins), 213-217 (215); wing, 130-131 

 (130.5); tail, 66-70 (68); exposed culmen, 17.5-18 (17.8); tarsus, 

 33-36 (34.5); middle toe, 25.5-26.5 (26).^ 



Eastern Costa Rica (El Hogar; Cuabre; Rio Reventazon; Tala- 

 manca) and western and middle Panama (Veragua; Montana de 

 Vermejo; Agua Dulce; Cascajal, Code; Puerto Bello). 



Geotrygon vcragiiensis Lawrence, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., viii, 1867, 349 

 (Veragua; coll. J. K. Merritt). — Sclater and Salvin, Exotic Orn., 1869, 

 78.— Salvin, Ibis, 1874, 328 (crit.), pi- 12.— Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. 

 Mus., xxi, 1893, 575 (Montana de Vermejo and Agua Dulce, Panama). — 

 Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, iii, 1902, 267 (Talamanca, 

 Costa Rica; Agua Dulce and Montafia de Vermejo, Panama). — Carriker, 

 Ann. Carnegie Mus., vi, 1910, 405 (Rio Reventazon, Cuabre, and El Hogai*, 

 Costa Rica; crit.; habits). 



\Geotrygon\ vcragucnsis Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 243, no. 9401. — Sharpe, Hand- 

 list, i, 1899, 88. — Forbes and Robinson, Bull. Liverp. Mus., ii, 1900, 146. 



Geotrygon rufiventris Lawrence, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., xi, 1875, 90 (Tala- 

 manca, e. Costa Rica; coll. U. S. Nat. Mu8.;=dark phase). — Rowley, 

 Orn. Misc., iii, pt. xii, 1878, 77, 78, pi. 92.— Zeledon, Anal. Mus. Nac. 

 C. R., i, 1888, 127 (Costa Rica).— Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., 

 Aves, iii, 1902, pi. 70. 



OREOPELEIA COSTARICENSIS (Lawrence). 



COSTA RICAN QUAIL-DOVE. 



Adults {sexes alike). — Forehead buff or pinkish buff; crown, occi- 

 put, and nape deep slate-gray, tinged with ohve-greenish, becoming 

 paler and more bluish gray anteriorly (next to buff of forehead) and 



