BIRDS OF NOETH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 491 



Adult male. — Crown, occiput, and nape deep russet-brown, 

 passing into fawn color or light mikado brown on forehead, where 

 the feathers are white basally; hindneck grayish bro^vn, faintly 

 glossed with purple and bronze; interscapulars dark semimetallic 

 purplish brown (nearly anthracene purple) ; rest of upper parts olive- 

 brown to natal brown, the alidae, primary coverts, and primaries 

 grayish dusky; a broad malar-suborbital-auricular stripe light pink- 

 ish cinnamon or cinnamon-buff, the auricular portion suffused or 

 intermixed with brown; beneath this (except anteriorly) a line or 

 narrow strijje of black; chin and throat white, passing into clear 

 bluish gray (between deep gull gray and hght neutral gray) on fore- 

 neck, chest, and breast; abdomen white to pale buff, minutely 

 freckled with grayish, the feathers grayish beneath surface; axillars, 

 sides, and flanks light olive-brown; under tail-coverts gray or 

 brownish gray, minutely freckled with darker, sometimes indistinctly 

 margined terminally with paler; under wing-coverts deep grayish 

 brown; bill black (in dried skins); legs and feet brownish (in dried 

 skins); length (skins), 269-285 (278); wing, 139-144.5 (142.1); 

 tail, 81-90 (85.5); exposed culmen, 13-15 (14); tarsus, 38-43.5 (40.5); 

 middle toe, 30-31.5 (30.9) .« 



Adult female. — Similar to the adult male and perhaps not always 

 distinguishable, but usually ( ?) with the gray of foreneck, chest, and 

 breast duller (sometimes nearly mouse gray); length (skins), 269- 

 279 (274); wing, 141-145 (143); tail, 84-88 (85.8); exposed culmen, 

 15-17 (15.7); tarsus, 39.5-40 (39.8); middle toe, 29.5-31.5 (30.7).^ 



Eastern Panama (Mount Pirri, at 5,000 feet; Cana). 



Geotrygon goldmani Nelson. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Coll., vol. 60, no. 3, 

 Sept. 27, 1912, 2 (Mount Pirri, 5,000 feet, e. Panama; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). 



OREOPELEIA CHIRIQUENSIS (Sclater). 



CHIRIQUI QTJAIL-DOVE. 



Adult male. — Pileum slate-gi'ay, darker (nearly slate color) poste- 

 riorly and medially, paler (deep gidl gray) laterally, the forehead still 

 paler, at least anteriorly; general color of upper parts auburn or dull 

 chestnut, darker and faintly glossed with purplish on upper back, 

 duller on hindneck, the lower portion of which is usually somewhat 

 olivaceous and faintly glossed with greenish; alulse, primary coverts, 

 and primaries dull blackish brown or dusky, the primaries more 

 brownish, sometimes tinged with chestnut, the distal quills in- 

 distinctly edged with paler beyond their emarginations; a broad 

 stripe on side of head, extending from (and including) malar antia 

 beneath bare orbital space to beyond end of auricular region, cinna- 

 mon to pale cinnamon-buff anteriorly, paler cinnamon to dull whitish 



a Four specimens. & Three specimens. 



