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PERIUTERINE. 



1. Zenaida aurita. 



Le Pigeon de la Martinique, Briss. Orn. i. p. 103, sp. 14 (1760). 



Ooluinba martinicana, Briss. op. tit. p. 104 (1760). 



Columba martinica, var. j3, Gm. S. N. i. 2, p. 781, n. 24, var. /3 

 (1788) (syn. emend.) ; Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 595, n. 7, var. )3 

 (1790) (syn. emend.); F««7/. 2V. Z>. xxvi. p. 351 (1818). 



Columba aurita, Tetnm. 8f Knip, Pi)/, i. fam. sec. p. 60, pis. 25 (ad.), 

 25 bis* (young?) (1808-11) (Martinica); Temm. Pig. et Gallin. 

 i. pp. 247, 467 (part.) (1813) ; Steph. Gm. Zool. xi. p. 51 (part.) 

 (1819); Desm. Diet. Sc. Nat. xl. p. 331 (1826) ; Less. Compl. de 

 Buff., Ois. viii. p. 60 (part.) (1837); id. op. tit. 2nd ed. p. 285 

 (part.) (1838) ; Gidliv. P. Z. S. 1875, p. 489. 



? Columba leucoptera, part., Vieill. N. D. xxvi. p. 351 (1818). 



Columba castanea, Wagl. Syst. Ar. Columba, sp. 77 (1827). 



Zenaida aurita, G. E. Gr. Gen. B. ii. p. 475, n. 4 (1845) (excl. syn.) ; 

 Behnb. Syn. At. ft. 1413-14 (1847); G. R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. 

 p. 241, n.' 9357 (1870). 



Peristera castanea, G. B. Gr. Gen. B. ii. p. 476, n. 16 (1845). 



Zenaida martinicana, Bp. Consp. Av. ii. p. 82 (1854) (e.r Briss.) ; 

 id. Compt. Bend. xl. pp. 97, 220, n. 243 (1855): id. Coup dCoeil 

 OrdrePig. pp. 41, r^, n. 243 (1855); Behnb. Tauben, i. p. 21, 

 t. 254. ft. 1413-14(1862); Taylor, Ibis, 1864, p. 171 (Dominica, 

 Portorico) ; Sclat. 8f Sale. Nomencl. Ar. Neotrop. p. 132. n. 2 ( 1873) ; 

 Garrod, P. Z. S. 1874, pp. 250, 256; Lawr. l'r. U.S. Nat. Mas. 

 i. pp. 196,487 (1878) (Barbuda, Antigua, Guadeloupe, Dominica, 

 Martinica, St. Vincent, Grenada) : Sclat. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 765 

 (Montserrat) ; Lister, Ibis, 1880, p. 43 (St. Vincent) ; Allen, Bull. 

 Nutt. Om. Club, v. p. 109 (1880) (St. Lucia); Grisdale, Ibis, 

 1882, p. 492 (Montserrat) ; Sclat. List Vert. An. 8th ed. p. 455 

 (1882) (Union Island, one of the Grenadines, iS:c.) ; Con/, List B. 

 W. Ind. p. 24 (1885); Weils, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mm. 1886, p. 624 

 (Grenada); id. List B. Grenada, p. 7 (1886); Cory, Auk, 1887, 

 p. 114; id. B. W. Ind. p. 215 (1889) ; Sclat. P. Z. S. 1889, p. 326 

 (Dominica), 1892, p. 499 (Anguilla). 



Zenaida bimaculata, G. B. Gr. MS. Mus. Brit. ; id. List B. Brit. 

 Mas. Columb;e, p. 47 (Barbados) (1856); Bp. Compt. Bend. xl. 

 p. 97(1855) (Bermuda f) ; id. Coup (Tccil Ordr. Pig.]). 41 (1855) ; id. 



Columbaria:, Novit. t. 245. f. 25110 (1851); A. $ E. Newt. Handb. Jam. 

 p. 114 (1881). 

 Met.riopelia plumbea, Up. Consp Ar. ii. p. 76 (1854); id. Compt. Bend. 

 xl. pp. 24, 220, n. 226 (1855); id. Coup d'tzil Ordre Pig. pp.41, 58, 

 n. 226(1855); id. Compt. Bend, xliii. p. 945 (1856). 

 Metriopeleia plumbea, Behnb. Tauben, i. p. IS, t. 245. f. 2590 (1862), ii. 



p. 11)4, n. 34 (1862). 

 Chamai'pelia plumbea, Gich. Thes. Orn. i. p. 635 (1S72). 

 Tbe figure of this bird in Gosse's ' Illustrations ' is taken from an unpublished 

 drawing by a Mr. Robinson. It is entirely of a bluish lead-colour ; tbe secon- 

 daries have a black speculum and are tipped with white ; also the lateral tail- 

 feathers are tipped with white. 



It seems that Gosse only knew this bird from having heard woodsmen speak 

 of it, and he remarks that no doubt it is "a ground pigeon." It has the 

 appearance of a Zenaida, but it remains a doubtful species. 



* PI. 25 bis seems to bslong to a different species. 



+ It seems that the locality Bermuda rests on a mistake made by Bonaparte. 



