470 BULLETIlsr 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



ee. Forehead white; •wing-coverts, rump, and upper tail-coverts grayish 

 brown or olive-brown. (Costa Rica and western Panama.) 



Oreopeleia lawrencei (p. 489). 

 dd. Pileum and nape russet. (]\Iiddle Panama.). .Oreopeleia goldmani (p. 490). 

 cc. Chest cinnamon or rufous- cinnamon. (Costa Rica and western Panama.) 



Oreopeleia chiriquensis (p. 491) . 

 hh. No black subauricular streak; feathers of neck strongly individualized (sharply 

 outlined and imbricated). {Oreopeleia albifacies.) 

 c. Chest more grayish (deep avellaneous or wood brown). (Southeastern Mexico 



to Nicaragua.) Oreopeleia albifacies albifacies (p. 493). 



cc. Chest more tawny or cinnamomeous. (Southwestern Mexico.) 



Oreopeleia albifacies rubida (p. 495). 



OREOPELEIA CANICEPS (Gundlach). 



GRAY-HEADED QTJAIL-DOVE. 



Adults (sexes alike). — Forehead grayish white, gradually deepen- 

 ing into dark gull gray on posterior crown, occiput, and nape, which 

 are sometimes (in fresh plumage) very faintly glossed with metallic 

 purple; hindneck greenish gray or gi-ayish green, with pronounced 

 bronze-green gloss, changing to purplish ; back and scapulars metal- 

 lic dark violet-purple (nearly mulberry purple), passing into dark 

 violet-blue or bluish violet (more rarely slightly greenish blue) on 

 rump, the upper tail-coverts deep greenish gray, more faintly glossed 

 with greenish or bluish; anterior lesser wing-coverts similar in color 

 to back and scapulars, the rest, together with middle coverts, mostly 

 dark grayish brown or olive, glossed with bluish green; alulae, pri- 

 mary coverts, greater coverts, and secondaries dusky grayish brown 

 or oHve, without distinct, if any, metallic gloss ; tail darker and less 

 brownish (nearly deep to dark neutral gray), very faintly or not at 

 all glossed; sides of head nearly similar in color to occiput, etc. (but 

 without purplish gloss), fading into paler gray on chin and upper 

 throat, deepening into darker aiid slightly more brownish gi'ay (be- 

 tween neutral gray and dark neutral gray to nearly mouse gray) 

 on foreneck and chest, where more or less brightly glossed with light 

 bronze-greenish or purplish; breast, sides, and upper abdomen lighter 

 and more bluish gray (dark gull gray laterally, paler, postero-mediaUy) 

 the center of lower abdomen more or less buffy; flanks, anal region, 

 and under tail-coverts deep cinnamon, the last rather deeper (mikado 

 brown), tipped or terminally margined with paler (light cinnamon- 

 buffy) ; axillars dark slate-gray or slate color basally and terminally, 

 pale cinnamon or cuinamon-bujff sub terminally; under wing-coverts 

 pale cinnamon or deep cinnamon, the under primary coverts tipped 

 with gray; bill carmine basally, horn color terminally; iris vermihon;" 

 bare orbital space gray, the edge of eyelids more reddish ;" legs and 

 feet duU reddish white.'' 



« According to Gundlach. 



