8. GYMNOPELIA. 469 



Metriopelia erythrothorax, Bp. Compt. Rend. xl. p. 24 (1855) ; id. 



Coup dWil Ordre Pig. p. 41 (1855) ; id. Compt. Rend, xliii. pp. 946, 



949 (1856). 

 Peristera anais, G. R. Gr. List B. Brit. Mus. Columbae, p. 53 



(1866). 

 Metriopeleia anais, Rchnb. Tauben, i. p. 18 (1862) ; G. R. Gr. Hand- 

 list, ii. p. 242, n. 9369 (1870). 

 Chamrepelia anais, Sclat. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 100 (Lima) ; Gieb. Thes. 



Om. i. p. 633 (1872). 

 Chamrepelia erythrothorax, Sclat $ Salv. P. Z. S. 1867, p. 989, 1868, 



p. 570, L869, p. 155; Gieb. Thes. Om. i. p. 633 (1872). 

 Metriopeleia erythrothorax, G. R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 242, n. 9372 



(1870). 

 Gymnopelia erythrothorax, Sclat. $■ Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotrop. 



pp. 133, 156 (1873) ; Tact. P. Z. S. 1874, p. 555 ; Gieb. Thes. Om. 



iii. p. 807 (1877) ; Salv. Cat. B. Strickl. Coll. p. 548 (1882) ; Tacz. 



Om. Per. iii. p. 249, Tables, p. 102 (1880) ; Sclat. P. Z. S. 1886, 



p. 402 (Tarapaca); Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H. ii. p. 105 



(Bolivia) (1889); Hein. $• Rchmu. Nomencl. Mus. Hein. Om. 



p. 284 (1890) ; James, New List Chil. Birds, p. 10, n. 172 (1892). 



Adult male. Upper parts brown, with the tips of the feathers 

 whitish, the light tips broader on the wing-coverts ; head, neck, and 

 upper breast vinous, fading into white along the middle of the throat 

 and into whitish buff on the lower breast, abdomen, and under tail- 

 coverts ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills brown-black, 

 primaries with partial narrow light edges, the secondaries tipped 

 with whitish ; under wing-coverts brown-black ; two central tail- 

 feathers brown, next two pairs brown towards the base, black on 

 the apical portion, three outer pairs black, tipped with white, the 

 white of the tips increasing towards the outer feathers, which have 

 also the outer webs partly white ; a broad naked skin round the eyes 

 yellow or orange, surrounded by a line of black feathers ( W. Nation) : 

 "bill blackish; feet pale flesh-colour; iris blue" (Taczanowski) ; 

 " iris yellowish white " (lice/noli, Mus. Turin). Total length about 

 7'5 inches, wing 4, tail 2-75, bill - 5, tarsus 0-7. 



Female. Similar to the male, but the breast light asny grev 

 instead of vinous (Taczanowslii). 



Hub. Mountains of Peru, Bolivia, and N. Chili 



a. c? ad. sk. Tinta, Peru, June. 11. White, y, Esq. [C.]. 



b. lmm.sk. Iquique, Peru (It. Rowland). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



c. 2 a d- s k- Arequipa, S.W. Peru, June Salvin-Godman Col.. 



{H. Whitdy). 



d. Ad. sk. Lima, Peru (Nation). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



e. f. Ad. sk. Bolivia (Forbes). Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 y, h. Ad. sk. et Bolivia. T. Bridges, Esq. [C.]. 



st. (Typ e of Chamcrpelia r/i/mnops, G. It. Gr. ?) 



i. cJimm.sk. Prov. of Tarapaca, N. Chili, Berkeley James Coll 



Jan. 



