13. PEK1STERA. 4'.' I 



or lustre ; back, rump, scapulars, secondaries, and greater upper 

 wing-coverts olive-brown ; tbroat whitish ; upper breast and sides 

 dull ochraceous ; abdomen pale buff ; under tail-coverts pure snowy 

 white : median upper wing-coverts with steel-blue spots on the 

 outer webs ; primary-coverts cinnamon ; primaries also cinnamon, 

 but the tips and the outer webs of the outer ones brown ; bases of 

 the inner webs of the quills underneath rufous cinnamon ; under 

 wing-coverts rufous, the inner ones whitish ; tail graduated, central 

 pair of rectrices rufous cinnamon, dusky towards the tips, remainder 

 blackish, with the base of the outer web cinnamon, three outer 

 pairs edged at the tip of the outer web •with white, the next one 

 with rufous : " iris blue, naked skin round the eyes cinereous ; bill 

 black ; feet flesh-colour " (Xatterer). Total length about 6 inches, 

 wing 2-7, tail 2-6, bill 04, tarsus 0"64. 



Female. Similar to the male, but somewhat paler (Pdzeln). 



Hah. Cujaba, interior of Brazil. 



a. <S ad. sk. Cujaba, Brazil (Natterer). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(One of the typical specimens. ) 



13. PERISTERA. 



Type. 



Peristera, Sw. Zool. Journ. iii. p. 360 (1827) P. cinerea. 



Range. Neotropical Region, from Mexico to Peru and Paraguay. 



Keg to the Species. 



a. Tail-feathers with no white tips: general plu- 



mage of the male grey cinerea, p. 491. 



b. Lateral tail-feathers with broad white tips. 



a'. Breast grey geofrogi, p. 494. 



b'. Breast and lower throat deep chestnut mondetoura, p. 495, 



1. Peristera cinerea. 



Columba cinerea, Temm. x Skip (nee Scop.), Pig. i. faru. seconde, 

 p. 1:2c. p l. 58(1808-11); Temm. Pig. et Gallin. i. pp. 299, 477 

 (1813): Vieill. A. I), xwi. p. 366 (1818); Steph. Gen. Zool. id. 

 p. 83 (1819) ; Vidil. Enc. MeU. i. p. 382 (1823) ; Temm. PI. Col. 

 266 ( $ ) (livr. 4-1. L824 I ; Bean. Diet. Sc. Nat. xl. p. 354 i 1826) j 

 Wag/. Syst. Av. Columba, sp. 86 (1827) ; id. Isis, 1829, p. 745; 

 Less. Compl. de Buff., Ois. \ iii. p. 44 (1887) ; id. op. tit. 2nd ed. 

 p. 281 (1838). 



Peristera cinerea, <SV. Zoo/. Journ. iii. p. 360 (1827) : G. R. Gr. List 

 Gen. B. 2nd ed. p. 76 (1841); id. Gen. B. ii. p. 476, n. 1 (1845) ; 

 Echnb. Sipt. Av. ff. 1425-26 (1847): Bp. Comp. Av. ii. p. 75 

 (1864) : id. Compt. Rend. xl. pp. '■»■>. 220, a. 220 (1855) ; ol. Coup 

 tl'nil On/re Pig. pp. :\7 . 58, a. 220 i L855) ; id. Compt. Rend. xlii. 

 p. 944 (1856) (Mexico) ; G. R. Gr. List B. Brit. Mm. Columba?, 

 p. 52 ( 1856) : Sunn. Syst. Ueb. Thier. Bras.. /"<->/. ii. p. 303 I 1856 - 

 Sclat. J'. /.. S. 1856, p. 309 (Cordova); Bp. 'icon. Pit/, pl. 125. 

 f. 1 ( $ ) ( 1857) : .SW. Sf Salv. Ibis, L859, p. 222(Omoa, ( '. Aiuer.) : 

 Moore, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 61 (Omoa) ; Sclat. P. Z. 8. 1859, p. 39] 



