2. ZENAIDA. 389 



k. Ad. 8k. Medellin, U.S. of Columbia Salvin-Godman Coll. 



{Salmon). 

 I. Juv. sk. Merida, Venezuela (Goeriny). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



6. Zenaida vinaceo-rufa. 



Zenaida ruficauda?, Ridgic. (nee Bp.) Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. vii. p. 176 



(1884) (I. of Curacao, Venezuela). 

 Zenaida vinaceo-rufa, Ridyio. ibid, (type examined) ; Berl. J. f. O. 



1892, pp. 95, 97, 102 (Curacao and Carriacou, Grenadines) ; Peters, 



I. c. p. 113. 

 Zenaida rubripes, Lawr. Auk, ii. p. 357 (1885) (Grenada) ; id. Pr. 



U.S. Nat. Mies. 1886, p. 624 ; Cory, Revised List B. W. hid. i. 



p. 24 (1886) ; Wells, List B. Grenada, p. 7 (1886) ; Cory, Auk, iii. 



p. 115 (1887) ; Ridr/io. Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. x. p. 528 (1887) ; Cory, 



B. W. Ind. p. 216 (1889) ; Later. Auk, 1889, p. 21. 

 Eng-yptila wellsi (errore), Lawr. Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. 1886, p. 625 



(male) ; id. Auk, 1889, p. 21. 



Adult male. Very similar to Z. ruficauda, but smaller, of a paler 

 eolonr above, and with the rufous part of the plumage, forehead, 

 superciliary stripes, sides of the head, throat, breast, abdomen, and 

 under tail-coverts decidedly vinous ; chin and middle of the throat 

 paler ; crown and occiput tinged with grey, two steel-blue stripes, 

 one above and the other below the ear-coverts ; on the sides of the 

 neck two patches of golden-bronze feathers, with coppery lustre ; 

 several black spots on the inner greater wing-coverts and tertials ; 

 under surface of the wings grey ; central tail-feathers uniform 

 greyish brown, the next two pairs greyish brown towards the tip 

 and with a black band, the remainder grey at the base, rufous 

 vinous on the apical portion, and with a black irregular bar between 

 the rufous and the grey part ; the outer pair have the outer web 

 entirely rufous: "bill black; feet red; iris black" (Whitely). 

 Total length about 9 inches, wing 5 to 5*4, tail 3, bill 0-55, 

 tarsus 08. 



Female. Duller, and with the forehead, sides of the head, and 

 lower front neck tinged with pale brown, with no vinous colour. 



Huh. Curacao, Grenada, Grenadines, and British Guiana. 



Specimens in the Museum of Paris from Venezuela seem to belong 

 to the present species. 



a, b,c.($2 ad. sk. Quonga, Brit. Guiana, Nov. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(H. White/,,). 

 d. <$ ad. sk. Takutu R., Brit. Guiana, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



April (//. Whitely). 

 e ,f- 6 2 ad- sk. Aunai, Brit. Guiana, May Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(H. Whitely). 



7. Zenaida jessieae. 



P Zenaida stenura, G. R. Gr. (nee Bp.) List B. Brit. Mm. Columbae, 



p. 48(1866). 

 Zenaida Jessie®, Riker, MS. ; Ridyw. Pr. V.S.Nat. Mus. x. p. 527 



(1887) (Diamantina, Lower Amazon) (type examined). 



