282 COLUMBID.E. 



11) ; Temm. Pig. et Gallin. i. pp. 208, 460 (1813) ; Vieill. N. D. 



xxvi. p. 364 (1818) ; Staph, Gen. Zool. xi. p. 41 (1819) ; Wied, 



Reise nach Bras. i. p. 251 (1820) ; Steph. Gen. Zool. xiv. p. 286 



(1826) ; Desm. Diet. Sc. Nat. xl. p. 326 (1826) ; Wagl. Syst. Av. 



Columba, pp. 63 (1827) ; Less. Tr. d'Orn. p. 469 (1831) ; Wied, 



Beitr. iv. p. 447 (1832); Less. Compl. de Buff., Ois. viii. p. 100 



(1837) ; id. op. cit. 2nd ed. p. 296 (1838) ; G. R. Gr. Gen. B. ii. 



p. 470, n. 11 (1844) ; Rcknb. Syn. Av. ft. 1253-54 (1847) ; Schomb. 



Reise, iii. p. 743 (1848) ; G. R. Gr. List B. Brit. Mus. Columbae, 



p. 32 (1856) ; Sclat. Sf Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 222 ; Sclat. P. Z. S. 



1860, p. 291 (Esnieraldas) ; Sclat. 8f Salv. P. Z. S. 1864, p. 371 ; 



tid. P. Z. S. 1867, pp. 590 (Para), 753 (Chyavetas) ; Salv. 



P. Z. S. 1870, p. 217 (Veragua) ; Gieb. Thes. Orn. i. p. 751 



(1872); Sclat. 8f Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotrop. p. 132 (1873); iid. 



P. Z. S. 1873, p. 306 (Chaniicuros), 1879, p. 543 (Remedios) ; 



Forbes, Ibis, 1881, p. 318 ; Salv. Cat. B. Strickl. Coll. p. 543 (1882) ; 



Sclat. List Vert. An. 8th ed. p. 448 (1883) ; Taez. # Berl. P. Z. S. 



1885, p. 119; Tacz. Orn. Per. iii. p. 231, Tables, p. 101 (1886) ; 



Salv. Ibis, 1886, p. 173 (British Guiana) ; Zeledon, Ann. Mus. Nac. 



Costa Rica, 1887, p. 127, n. 582 (Costa Rica ?) ; Allen, Bull. Am. 



Mus. N H. ii. p. 105 (1889) (Bolivia) ; Riker fy Chapm. Auk, viii. 



p. 161 (Santarem) (1891) ; Hartert, Eat. Vogelsamml. p. 186 (1891). 

 Ectopistes? speciosa, Siv. Zool. Journ. iii. p. 362 (1828). 

 Peristera speciosa, Hartl. Syst. Verz. p. 99 (1844). 

 Lepidcenas speciosa, Rchnb. Av. Syst. Nat. p. xxv (1852) ; Bp. Consp. 



Av. ii. p. 54 (1854); id. Compt. Rend, xxxix. p. 1110 (1854), xl. 



p. 218, n. 155 (1855) ; id. Coup ifceil Ordre Pig. pp. 26, 56, n. 155 



(1855) ; Moore, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 61 (Peten, Guatemala) ; Lawr. 



Ann. Lye. N. Y. vii. p. 301 (1862) ; Rchnb. Tauben, i. p. 66, t. 223. 



ff. 1253-54 (1862), ii. p. 172 (1862) ; Pelz. Orn. Bras. pp. 274, 450 



liv (1868) ; G. R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 234, n. 9564 (1870) ; Schleg. 



Mus. P.-B. Columbse, p. 70 (1873) ; Sousa, Mus. Nac. Lisb. 



Columbfe, p. 14 (1873) ; Tacz. P. Z. S. 1874, p. 555 (Central Peru) ; 

 Sumichrast, Naturaleza, v. p. 231, n. 25 (1881) ; Hein. 8f Rchnw. 

 Nomencl. Mus. Hein. Orn. p. 276 (1890) 

 Peristera spilodera, G. R. Gr. MS. ; Bp. Compt. Rend. xli. p. 659 



(1855). 

 Chlorcenas spilodera, Bp. Consp. Av. ii. p. 52 (1854) ; id. Compt. 

 Rend, xxxix. p. 1109 (1854), xl. p. 218, n. 148 (1855) ; id. Coup 

 d'ceil Ordre Pig. pp. 25, 56, n. 148 (1855) ; id. Compt. Rend, xliii. 

 p. 838 ( = speciosa, jun.) (1856). 

 Patagicenas speciosa, Burin. Syst. TJeb. Th. Bras. iii. p. 293 



(1856). 

 Chlorcenas speciosa, Sclat. P. Z. S. 1856, p. 309 (Cordova, S. Mexico). 



Adult male. Head chestnut vinous ; back, rump, and smaller 

 upper wing-coverts maroon, with a purple tinge ; feathers of the 

 neck regularly margined with dark metallic green, more or less with 

 violet or amethystine reflections, producing a regular scaly appear- 

 ance, on the upper part each feather has a white spot near the 

 margin ; on the lower hind neck the white spots are wanting and 

 the feathers are chestnut in the middle ; breast dull vinous, with 

 darker edges to the feathers ; middle of the abdomen, vent, and 

 under tail-coverts white, the feathers edged with dusky ; quills 

 brown, the primaries with narrow lighter edges ; under wing-coverts 



