474 BULLETIN 50^ UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



OREOPELEIA MYSTACEA MYSTACEA (Temminck). 



BRIDLED QITAIL-DOVE. 



Adult male. — Pileum and nape, together with lores and upper half 

 of auricular region, plain grayish brown (deep hair brown to chaetura 

 drab), darker posteriorly, where usually more or less glossed with 

 metallic green, often paler or more brownish on forehead; hindneck 

 (superficially) bright metallic green or bluish green, the sides of neck 

 similar but usually more bronzy green; back, scapulars, wing-coverts 

 secondaries, rump, upper tail-coverts, and middle rectrices olive- 

 brown, the back glossed with dark bronzy purple, especially on upper 

 part; alulae, primary coverts and primaries chestnut, tipped with 

 ohve-brown, the distal secondaries chestnut basally; rectrices (except 

 middle pair) chestnut passing into deep olive-brown terminally; a 

 broad stripe of white extending from (and including) malar antia 

 across side of head, beneath lores and bare orbital space, to end of 

 auricular region; broad space beneath this, pointed anteriorly but 

 gradually widening posteriorly, similar in color to pileum but more or 

 less paler; chin and upper throat duU white; foreneck brown (dull 

 snuff brown to fawn color) sometimes faintly glossed with metallic 

 green, passing into vinaceous-fawn on upper chest, this passing, 

 through hght vinaceous-fawn on breast, into white or buffy white on 

 abdomen and anal region; flanks duU ochraceous-buif to cinnamon- 

 buff, intermixed with cinnamon, sayal brown or mikado brown on 

 outer (lateral) portion; under tail-coverts deep cinnamon or sayal 

 brown to mikado brown passing into pale cinnamon-buff terminally; 

 axillars and under wing-coverts dull chestnut or rufous-chestnut, the 

 under surface of remiges similar but paler, passing into grayish brown 

 distally or terminally; bill light colored (reddish or pinkish in life?); 

 iris yellowish white "' or brown ;^ legs and feet pale brownish in 

 dried skins (flesh color or reddish in life?); length (skins), 244-297 

 (274); wing, 156.5-170 (164.9); tail, 81-94.5 (87.2); exposed culmen, 

 18-20.5 (19.2); tarsus, 31-35.5 (33.5); middle toe, 24.5-27.5 (26.3). <= 



o W. B. Richardson (specimen from Martinique). 

 & W. W. Brown, jr. (specimen from Santa Lucia). 



c Nineteen specimens. 



