2. COLUMBA. 



281 



Patagicenas imbricata, Burm. Sg.it. Uebers. Th. Bras. iii. p. 294 

 (185G). 



Adult male. Head, neck, and crop-region rich vinous ; nape and 

 a cape extending upon the sides of the neck metallic violet, each 

 feather distinctly hordered with velvety maroon ; rest of the plumage 

 dark plumbeous, scarcely paler below ; quills with narrow light 

 edges, especially at the tip ; tail dark slate-colour : " bill bright lake, 

 yellowish white at the tip of both mandibles ; skin round the eyes 

 nearly bare and of a dull red, with a little fine yellow bloom upon 

 it; iris with the inner ring scarlet, the outer and narrower one 

 golden yellow ; legs and feet lake ; claws dark horn-colour " 

 {Newton). Total length about 14 inches, wing 8 - 5, tail 6, bill 0-62, 

 tarsus T08. 



Female. Similar to the male, but somewhat smaller and perhaps 

 duller. 



Tonne/. Brown, with the tips of the feathers rufous chestnut. 



Hub. Antilles (except Jamaica and Bahamas) — Cuba, Porto llico, 

 St. Croix, Montserrat, Dominica, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Grenadines, 

 Grenada, and Bonaire. 



a. tf ad. sk. 



b. $ ad. sk. 

 o. Ad. sk. 



d. S ad. sk. 



e. Ad. sk. 



/, g. Ad. sk. et st. 

 h. Ad. sk. 



i, k. d ad. sk. 



/. rf ad. sk. 

 in. Juv. sk. 

 n, o. J ad. et ad. 



p, q, r. 2 ai '- ''' 

 ad. sk. 



Monte Verdi, Cuba, May 



(C. Wright). 

 Monte Verdi, Cuba, April 



(C. Wright). 

 San Cristobal, Cuba (G. 



F. Gaumer). 

 Cuba. 

 Hayti {J. Hearne). 



San Domingo. 

 Montserrat, W. Indies 



{Sturge). 

 Dominica, W. Indies (F. 



A. Oder). 

 St. Lucia, March (Ra- 



mage). 

 St. Vincent, W. Indies, 



Sept. (D. W. Smith). 

 Mustique Grenadine, W. 



Indies, June (I). W. 



Smith). 

 Grenada, W. Indies, April 



May [Mrs. II. II. § D. 



W. Smith). 



Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion [P.]. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Zoological Society's 



Coll. 

 Sak\§ Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



West-India Commis- 

 sion [P.]. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



21. Coluniba speciosa. 



Pigeon rainier de Cayenne, D'Aubent. Pi. Fid. 213. 



Raniiret, Buf. Hist. Nat. Ois. ii. p. 641 (1771 ). 



Scallop-necked Pigeon, Lath. s„„. ii. 2, p. 648, n. 39 (1783). 



Columba Speciosa, Gin. S. X. i. p. 7S:>, n. "j^ ( 17"^) ; Lath. bid. Orn. 

 ii. p. CO."), n. 46 ( 1 790) ; Bonn. Tabl. Enc. Mcth. i. p. 245, pi. 80. f. 2 

 ( 1790) ; Tenon. $ Knip, Big. i. tarn, seconde, p. 39, pi. 14 (1808- 



