384 PERISTERIPvE. 



3. Zenaida yucatanensis. 



Zenaida amabilis, Boucard {nee Bp. et syn. emend.), P. Z. S. 1883, 

 p. 458 (Yucatan) ; Salvin, ibid.; id. Ibis, 1889, p. 377 (Holbox I., 

 Mugeres I., Yucatan), 1890, pp. 89, 91, 92, 93. 



Similar to Z. amabilis, but with the brown colour of the upper 

 parts paler and more greyish, and with the rufous colour of the 

 throat duller and washed with pale brown. 



Male with rufous vinous underparts ; female with the vinaceous 

 colour of the same parts washed with grey or with pale brown. 



Bab. Coast of Yucatan, and Coznmel, Mugeres, and Holbox 

 Islands. 



a. <$ ad. sk. Rio Lagartos, N. Yucatan, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



June (G.F. Gaumer). (Type of species.) 



b-k. Ad. sk. Cozumel I., Yucatan (G. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



F. Gaunter), 

 l-t. $ 2 a d- sk. Holbox I., Yucatan, Dec. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(G. F. Gaumer). 

 u, v. Ad. sk. Mugeres I., Yucatan, Dec. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



{G. F. Gaumer). 



4. Zenaida auriculata. 



Paloma parda manchada, D' Azara, Apunt. i. p. 17, n. 322 (1805). 

 Pigeon brun tachete, D 'Azara, Voy. (Sonn. ed.) iii. p. 132, n. 322 



(1809). 

 Columba aurita, part., Temm. Piy. et Gallin. i. pp. 247, 467 (1813) ; 



Steph. Gen. Zool. xi. p. 51 (part.) (1819). 

 Columba maculata, Vieill. {nee Gm.) Fnc. Meth. i. p. 376 (1823) ; 



Burnt. La Plata Reise^ i. p. .'506 (1861). 

 Columba rneridionalis, King {nee Lath.), Zool. Journ. iv. p. 92 (1828) 



(Straits of Magellan) ; Less. Bull. Sc. Nat. xv. p. 151 (1828) ; 



Wayl. Isis, 1829, p. 743 (nota) ; Less. Compl. de Buff., Ois. viii. 



p 99 (1837) ; id. op. cit. 2nd ed. p. 296 (1838) ; Sclat. P. Z. S. 



1867, pp. 330, 339 ; Gieb. Thes. Orn. i. p. 747 (1872). 

 Columba aurita, Licht. {nee Temm.) Doubl. p. 66 (1823) (Monte 



Video) ; Wayl. Syst. An. Columba, sp. 70 (1827) (syn. emend.) ; 



Less. Compl. de Buff., Ois. viii. p. 60 (part.) (1837); id. op. cit. 



2nd ed. p. 285 (part.) (1838); Darw. Voy. ' Beayle,' Zool. p. 115 



(1841); Tsch. Faun. Per., Aves, p. 275 (1844) ; Meyen in Mus. 



Berol.,fde Bp. Compt. Bend, xliii. p. 946 (1856). 

 Zenaida aurita, Fraser {nee Temm.), P. Z. S. 1843, p. 115 (Chile) ; 



Tsch. Faun. Per., Aves, p. 45 (1844) ; G. P. Gr. Gen. B. ii. p. 475, 



n. 4 (part.) (1845) ; Hartl. {nee auct.) Ind. Azara Apunt. p. 20, 



upper surface of tail brown, the feathers showing a subterminal band of black, 

 and all the leathers, except the central ones, tipped with grey ; lateral tail- 

 feathers tipped with grey ; primaries dark brown, almost black, faintly tipped 

 with dull white ; the secondaries broadly tipped with white ; under wing- 

 coverts grey : bill black : feet red. Length 9 - 60 inches, wing 6, tail 375, 

 tar us 075, bill 0'50." {Cory.) 



Rah. Grand Cayman, West Indies. 



Mr. Cory does not state in what respect this species differs from Z. zenaida, 

 and although in a letter to Mr. Salvin he writes that " it is a fine species, not 

 at all like any W. I. species," I have failed to discover how it differs from 

 Z. amabilis. 



