284 C0LTJMBID.E. 



b\ Juv. sk. S. America. Purchased. 



c'. Juv. sk. S. America. Purchased. (Type of 



Peristera spilodera, G. R. Gr.) 

 d'. Ad. st. Zool. Soc. Coll. 



22. Columba inornata. 



Colitmba inornata, Vig. Zool. Journ. iii. p. 446 (Cuba) (1828) ; Wagl. 



Isis, 1829, p. 744 ; Less. Compl. de Bvff., Ois. viii. p. 101 (1837) ; 



id. op. cit. 2nd ed. p. 297 (1838) ; D'Orb. in La Sagra's Hist. Nat. 



Cuba, Ois. p. 173 (large ed. p. 127), pi. 28 (1839) ; G. R. Gr. Gen. B. 



ii. p. 470, n. 31(1844) ; Denny, P. Z. S. 1847, p. 39 ; G. R. Gr. List B. 



Brit. Mus. Columbse, p. 34 (1866) ; Marsh, Pr. Ac. Nat. Sc. Philad. 



1863, p. 301 ; Gundl. J. f. O. 1870, p. 282 ; Gieb. Thes. Orn. i. 



p. 744 (1872) ; Sclat. $ Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotrop. p. 132 (1873) ; 



Baird, Brew., $ Ridgw. Hist. N. Am. Birds, iii. p. 360 (1874) ; 



A. Sf E. Newt. Handb. Jam. p. 114 (1881) ; Salo. Cat. B. Strickl. 



Coll. p. 543 (1882) ; Sclat. List Vert. An. 8th ed. p. 449 (1883) ; 



Cory, B. Haiti 8f San Domingo, p. 136 (1885) ; id. List B. W. Ind. 



p. 23 (1885) : id. Auk, 1887, p. 110 ; id. B. W. Ind. p. 211 (1889) ; 



Scott, Auk, 1892, p. 122. 

 Columba rufina, Gosse {nee Temm.), B. Jam. p. 296 (1847) ; id. Nat. 



Soj. in Jam. p. 173 (1851). 

 Carpophaga? inornata, Rchrib. Syn. Av. Novit. Columbarise, f. 2582 



(1851). 

 Clilorcenas inornata, Bp. Consp. Av. ii. p. 53 (1854) ; id. Compt. 



Rend, xxxix. p. 1108 (1854), xl. p. 218, n. 149 (1855) ; id. Coup 



d'ceil Ordr. Pig. pp. 25, 56, n. 149 (1855) ; Gundl. $ Cab. J. f. O. 



1856, p. 106 (Cuba) ; Brewer, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. vii. p. 307 



(1800) ; Sclat. P. Z. S. 1861, p. 80 (Jamaica) ; Rchnb. Tauben, i. 



p. 62, t. 222. f. 2582 (1862), ii. p. 172 (1862) ; Albrecht, J. f. O. 



1862, p. 204; Gundl. Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, i. p. 298 (1866); 



G. R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 235, n.9274 (1870) ; Schleg. Mus. P.-B. 



Columbte, p. 78 (1873) ; Gundl. J. f. O. 1874, pp. 286, 312 ; id. 



Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. vii. p. 343 (1878) ; id. J.f. O. 1878, 



pp. 161, 185. 



Adult male. Head, neck, and underparts vinous purple ; chin 

 more or less whitish ; mantle, scapulars, wing-coverts (except the 

 median ones), and inner secondaries brown-grey ; lower back, rump, 

 upper and under tail-coverts, sides, and under surface of the wings 

 plumbeous ; median wing-coverts tinged with chestnut ; anterior 

 upper wing-coverts and tbe greater ones conspicuously edged with 

 white ; primaries greyish brown, with narrow light edges to the 

 outer webs ; tail rounded, dark plumbeous grey : bill black, " horn- 

 colour ; legs (and feet) carmine-red ; iris with an inner ring 

 plumbeous, an outer one ochre-yellow, and between the two a 

 brownish tinge ; edges of the eyelids and naked skin round the 

 eyes carmine-red " (Gundlach). Total length about 14 - o inches, 

 wing 8-75, tail 6, bill 0-8, tarsus 1-15. 



Female. Similar to the male, only somewhat smaller and duller. 



Some adult specimens show a slight reddish tinge towards the 

 tips of the under tail-coverts. 



Young. " Head, neck, and underparts have an ochreous tinge 



