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Bill and wing of Leuaopeza semperi. 



1. 



Leucopeza semperi 



Leucopeza semperi, Sclater 

 Acad. Sci. p. 151 (1878) 



ficlater, P. Z. S. 1876, p. 14 ; Lawr. Ann. N. Y. 



Adult (type of species). General colour above dark slaty grey, 

 slightly washed with browu on the lower back and rump ; lesser and 

 median wing-coverts like the back, the greater series dusky, edged 

 externally with dull slaty grey ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and 

 quills blackish, obsoletely margined with dull slaty grey, a little paler 

 on the primaries ; tail-feathers blackish, washed with dull slaty grey 

 on the outer webs ; head like the back, a little lighter grey on the 

 forehead ; lores dusky : sides of face and ear-coverts lighter slate- 

 colour, still paler on the cheeks and throat, which are pale ashy 

 grey, deepening into slaty grey on the breast and much darker slaty 

 grey on the sides of the breast and flanks, the lower flanks washed 

 with brown ; thighs also slaty grey ; centre of breast and abdomen 

 white ; under tail-coverts brownish ashy, with slaty centres to the 

 feathers ; axillaries and under wing-coverts slatj'-grey, the feathers 

 edged with white ; quills dusky below, ashy along the edge of the 

 inner web. Total length 5"8 inches, culmen 0'7, wing 2"65, taU 2-2, 

 tarsus 0-9. 



Hah. Island of Santa Lucia, West Indies. 



a. Ad. sk. Santa Lucia {Semper). 



h. Ad. sk. Santa Lucia {Semper). 



Sclater Collection. 



of species.) 

 Sclater Collection. 



(Type 



2. Leucopeza bishopi. 



Leucopeza bishopi, Lawr. Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. p. 151 (1878) ; id. 

 Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. pp. 189, 486 (1879). 



Male. The general plumage is smoky black, rather darker on the 



