492 PEKISTEEID^!. 



(Playa Vicente, S.W. Mexico) ; Rchnb. Tauben, i. p. 23, t. 256. 

 ff. 1425, 1426 (1862), ii. p. 164 (1862) ; Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. T. 

 viii. p. 301 (1862) ; Sclat. P. Z. S. 1864, p. 178 (Mexico) ; Sclat. 

 8f Salv. P. Z. S. 1864, p. 370, 1867, p. 753 (Xeberos, E. Peru) ; 

 Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. ix. p. 138 (1869) (Costa Rica) ; Fronts. 

 J. f. O. 1869, p. 371 (Cost Pica) ; Salv. P. Z. S. 1870, p. 217 

 ( Veragua) ; Pelz. Orn. Bras. pp. 278, 451, liv (1870) ; G. R. Gr. 

 Hand-list, ii. p. 241 (1870) ; Sclat. $■ Salv. P. Z. S. 1873, p. 306 

 (E. Peru) ; Schley. Mus. P.-B. Columbfe, p. 138 (1873) ; Soma, 

 Mus. Nac. Lisb. Columbae, p. 20 (1873) ; Sclat. $r Salv. Nomencl. 

 Av.Neotrop. p. 133 (1873) (Guatemala and through Centr. America 

 to Brazil); Salv. Ibis, 1874, p. 99 (Guatemala); Cab. J. f. 0. 

 1874, p. 230 (Cantagallo) ; Gieb. T/tes. Orn. iii. p. 66 (1877) ; 

 Tacz. P. Z. S. 1877, p. 329 (Peru) ; Sclat. Sf Salv. P. Z. S. 1879, 

 p. 544 (Remedios, Antioquia) ; Salv. Cat. B. Strickl. Coll. p. 549 

 (1882); Berl. § Tacz. P. Z. S. 1883, p. 575 (W. Ecuador); 

 Nuttinr/, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. vi. p. 408 (1883) (Nicaragua); 

 Tacz. '&} Berl. P. Z. S. 1885, p. Ill (Ecuador) ; Tacz. Orn. Per. 

 iii. p. 253, Tables, p. 102 (1886) ; Zeledon, An. Mus. Nac. C. M. 

 1887, p. 127 ; Berl. J. f. O. 1887, pp. 34, 124 (Pilcomayo, Para- 

 guay), 1889, p. 319 (Tarapoto) ; Ridgiv. Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. x. 

 p. 584 (Truxillo, Honduras) (1887) ; Allen, Bull. Am. Mm. N. 

 H. ii. p. 106 (1889) (Bolivia) ; Tristr. Cat. Coll. B. p. 40 (1889) ; 

 Hein. § Rchnw. Nomencl. Mus. Hein. Orn. p. 284 (1890) ; Hartert, 

 Kat. Vogelsamml. p. 187 (1891) ; Cherrie, Auk, 1892, p. 329 (Costa 

 Rica). 



Chamaspelia cinerea, Hart/. Syst. Verz. p. 99 (1844). 



r Peristera ustulata, Licht. Nomencl. Av. p. 83 (1854) (Brazil) ; Bp. 

 Compt. Rend, xliii. p. 944 (1856) (Mexico !). 



Peristera pretiosa, F.-Perez, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mm. ix. p. 175 (Mexico) 

 (1886). 



Adult male. General plumage bluish grey, paler below, almost white 

 on the forehead and throat ; smaller and median upper wing-coverts 

 and some of the innermost greater ones, some of the outer scapulars 

 and inner secondaries, with roundish or quadrangular blue-black spots 

 on the outer webs ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills black, 

 the secondaries with partial narrow grey edges ; central tail-feathers 

 grey, remainder of the rectrices black, but greyish towards the base 

 of the inner ones above : " iris with an inner ring red, and an 

 outer one yellow ; feet red ; bill yellow " (Semiradzki). Total 

 length about 8 - 5 inches, wing 4 - 75, tail 3-6, bill 0-6, tarsus 0*76. 



Female. Upper parts brown, almost cinnamon on the upper tail- 

 coverts, paler on the forehead ; spots on the upper wing-coverts 

 and inner secondaries brown -cinnamon, the larger ones on the 

 median and greater wing-coverts bounded behind with a light line ; 

 throat whitish, lower fore neck and breast pale brown, changing 

 into grey on the rest of the lower parts ; under tail-coverts greyish 

 cinnamon ; under wing-coverts grey ; central tail-feathers brown- 

 cinnamon ; lateral rectrices black, but the inner ones tinged with 

 rufous on the outer webs, outer pair edged with rufous on the outer 

 web. 



Young. Similar to the female, but duller, with the spots on the 

 wing obsolete, and with the edges of the brown feathers of the 



