388 PERISTEKID.B. 



Zenaida mexicana, Bp. Mus. Lugd. 1849, fide Bp. Consp. Av. ii- 



p. 83 (1854). _ 

 Zenaida perithelia, Bp. Mus. Paris ; id. Consp. Av. ii. p. 84 (1854) 



(Santa Martha) ; id. Compt. Bend. xl. pp. 98, 220, n. 249 (1855) ; 



id. Coup d'ceil Ordre Pig. pp. 42, 58, n. 249 (1855) ; Sclat. P. Z. S. 



1856, p. 30 ; G. B. Gr. List B. Brit. Mus. Coluniba;, p. 48 (1856). 

 Zenaida castanea, Bp. (nee Wagl.) in Mus. Lugd. fide Bp. Compt. 



Bend, xliii. p. 946 (1856). 

 Zenaida (Platyptercena) pentheria, Bchnb. Tauben, i. p. 20 (1862). 

 Stenuroena ruticaiida, G. B. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 241, n.9359 (1870) ; 



Hein. § Bchniv. Nomenel. Mus. Hein. Or?i. p. 284 (1889) (Caracas,. 



Venezuela). 

 Platyptercena pentheria, G. B. Gr. Hand-l. ii. p. 241, n. 9360 (1870), 

 Chamtepelia pentheria, Gieb. Thes. Orn. i. p. 635 (1872). 

 Chamsepelia ruficauda, Gieb. Thes. Orn. i. p. 635 (1872). 

 Peristera ruficauda, Schleg. Mus. P.-B. Coluniba?, p. 141 (1873) 



Salv. Ibis, 1874, p. 455. 

 Peristera pentheria, Schleg. Mus. P.-B. Columbas, p. 142 (1873) 



Salv. Ibis, 1874, p. 455 ( = ruficauda $). 

 Zenaida bogoteusis, Lawr. Auk, ii. p. 358 (1885) (Bogota, New 



Granada) ; liidgw. Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. x. p. 528 (1887). 



Adult male. Upper parts olive-brown ; forehead, sides of the 

 head, superciliary stripes, throat, and upper breast rufous vinous, 

 changing into rufous cinnamon on the lower breast, abdomen, and 

 under tail-coverts ; crown and occiput grey ; two steel- blue spots 

 on the sides of the head, one above, the other below the ear-coverts : 

 two metallic patches of a bronze-amethyst colour on the sides of the 

 neck ; chin pale vinous ; sides, axillaries, and under wing-coverts 

 grey ; black spots on the inner upper wing-coverts, scapularies, and 

 inner secondaries ; the outermost or marginal upper wing-coverts 

 are greyer than the inner ones : quills brown, with narrow pale 

 edges, the secondaries greyish brown ; central tail-feathers brown- 

 grey, the next pair grey, brownish towards the tip and with a black 

 spot about the middle ; the five outer pairs grey at the base, rufous 

 cinnamon at the apical half, and with a black irregular bar across the 

 middle, between the rufous and the grey part ; the outer pair have 

 the whole of the outer web rufous cinnamon ; bill black. Total 

 length about 11 inches, wing 6*3, tail 4-3, bill 0"68, tarsus 1. 



Hah. Colombia, Venezuela, and Rio Branco (?). 



The type of Z. pentheria in the Paris Museum, and a second 

 specimen, exactly like it (Bonaparte's collection), also in the Paris 

 Museum, are rather large specimens, perhaps males, of Z. ruficauda : 

 wing 6*3 inches ; abdomen and under tail-coverts rufous cinnamon. 



