470 PEEISTEEID.5!. 



Subfamily IV. PERISTERIN^l. 



Key to the Genera. 



a. Tail longer than half the wing. 



a'. First primary not abruptly attenuated 



at the tip. 



a". Central and outer tail - feathers 



shorter than the intermediate ones ; 



a steel-blue band on the upper 



wing-coverts 9. Columbula, p. 470. 



b". Tail rounded ; separate metallic 

 spots on the upper wing-coverts. 

 a 3 . Tail moderate, shorter than the 



wing 10. Chasl&pelia, p. 472. 



b 3 . Tail much longer than the wing . 11. Ukopelia, p. 489. 

 b'. First primary sharply attenuated at 

 the tip. 



c". Tail longer than the wing 12. Oxtpelia, p. 490. 



d". Tail shorter than the wing 13. Pebistera, p. 491. 



b. Tail short, about half the length of the 



wing ; under tail-coverts black 14. Metriopelia, p. 497. 



9. COLUMBULA. 



Type. 



C'llumbina, Spi.v, Av. Bran. ii. p. 57 (1825) C. picui. 



Columbula, Bp. Consp. Av. ii. p. 80 (1854) ; id. Compt. 



Rend. xl. p. 22 (1855) C. picui. 



Range. Confined to South America. 



1. Columbula picui. 



Palom.i picui, Azara, Apunt. i. p. 23, n. 324 (1805). 



Le Picui, L} Azara, Voy.Am. Merid. (ed. Sown.) iii. p. 136, n. 324 



(1809). 

 Columba niciii, Temm, Pig. et Gallin. i. pp. 435, 498 (1813) {ex 



D 'Azara) ; Vieill. N. JD. xxvi. p. 383 (1818) ; id. Enc. Meth. i. 



p. 385 (1823) ; I)esm. Diet. Sc. Nat. xl. p. 310 (182G) ; Wayl. Stjst. 



Av. Columba, sp. 87 (1827) ; Less. Compl. de Buff.. Ois. viii. p. 13 



(1837) ; id. op. cit. 2nd ed. ii. p. 272 (1840) ; Knip § Prev. Pig. 



ii. p. 71, pi. 39 (1838-43). 

 Goura picui, Steph. Gen. Zool. xi. p. 135 (1819). 

 Columbina strepitans, Spiv, Av. Bras. ii. p. 57, t. lxxv. f. 1 (1825) ; 



Fraser, P. Z. S. 1843, p. 115 (Chili, Mendoza) ; G. R. Gr. Gen. B. 



ii. p. 474, n. 2 (1845) ; Yarrell, P. Z. S. 1847, p. 53 (egg) ; Rchnb. 



Syn. Av. f. 1405 (1847) (ex Spiv) ; Hart I. Naumannia, 1853, 



p. 221 (Chili) ; Rchnb. Tauben, i. p. 16, t. 253. f. 1405 (1862) ; 



Pelz. Novara Reisv, Vdf/. p. 109 (egg) (1865). 

 Columba strepitans, Wayl. Syst. Av. Columba, sp. 109 (1827) ; Less. 



Compl. de Buff., Ois. viii. p. 61 (1837) ; id. op. cit. 2nd ed. p. 285 



(1838). 

 Chasmepelia picui, Selb. Natural. Libr., Pigeons, p. 201 (1835). 

 Charnaspelia strepitans, Hartl. Syst. Verz. p. 99 (1844) ; Gieb. Thes. 



Orn. i. p. 636 (1872). 



