494 peeisterid^;. 



■2. Peristera geoffroyi. 



Columba geoflroyi, Temm. $■ Knip, Pig. i. fam seconde, pi. 57 (c?) 



(1808-11) ; Temm. Pig. et Gallin. i. pp. 297, 476 (1813) ; Vieill. 



N. D. xxvi. p. 352 (1818) ; Steph. Gen. Zool. xi. p. 69 (1819) ; 



Wied, Reise nach Bras. ii. p. 341 (1821) ; Vieill. Enc. Mith. i. 



p. 382 (1823) ; Besm. Diet. Sc. Nat. xl. p. 354 (1826) ; Wagl. 



Syst. Av. Colurnbae, sp. 84 (1827); id. Isis, 1829, p. 744; Less. 



7V. WOrn. p. 473 (1831) ; Wied, Beitr. Natura. Bras. iv. p. 461 



(1832). 

 Columba o-odefrida, Temm. 4" Knip, Pig. i. fam. seconde, p. 125 



(1808-11). 

 Peristera geoffroyi, G. P. Gr. List Galling B. M. p. 16 (1844) ; id. 



Gen. B. ii. p. 476, n. 2 (1845) : RcJwb. Syn. Av. Columbarise, 



Novit. t. 266. ff. 2870-71 (1851) ; Bp. Consp. Av. ii. p. 75 (1854) ; 



id. Compt. Rend. xl. pp. 99, 220. n. 221 (1855) ; id. Coup dceil 



Ordre Pig. pp. 37, 58, n. 221 (1855) : id. Compt. Rend. xlii. p. 957 



(1856) (Mexico), xliii. p. 944 (1856) ; G. R. Gr. List B. Brit. 



Mus. Columbaa, p. 52 (1856) ; Burm. Si/st. Ueb. Thier. Bras., Vbg. 



ii. p. 303 (1856) : Rchnb. Tauben, i. p. 24, t. 266. ff. 2870-71 (tf), 



t. 257. f. 1430 ( J ) (1862) : Pelz. Orn. Bras. pp. 278, 451, liv 



(1870) ; G. R. Gr. moid-list. ii. p. 241, n. 9365 (1870) ; Schleg. 



Mm. P.-B. Columba?, p. 139 (1873); Sousa, Mus. Nac. Lisb. 



Colunibae, p. 20 (1873) ; Sclaf. $ Salv. Nomenel. Av. Neotrop. 



p. 133 (1873) (Brazil) : Cab. J. f. O. 1874, p. 230 (Cantagallo) ; 



Berl. J. f. O. 1874, p. 242 (Santa Catbariua, S. Brazil) : Gieb. 



Thes. Orn. iii. p. 66 (1877) : Tacz. P. Z. S. 1882, p. 48 (N.E. Peru) ; 



Gadow, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 327 : Salv. Cat. B. Strickl. Coll. p. 549 



(1882) : Sclat. List Vert. An. 8tb ed. p. 454 (1883) (Isl. of 



Fernando de Noronha) ; Goodch. P. Z. S. 1886, p. 195 ; Tacz. Orn. 



Per. iii. p. 250, Tables, p. 102 (1886) ; Hein. <$■ Rchnw. Nomenel. 



Mus. Rein. Orn. p. 284 (1890) ; Hartert, Kat. Vogelsamml. p. 187 



(1891). 

 Charnsepelia geoffroyi, Ilartl. Syst. Verz. p. 99 (1844). 

 Peristera trifasciata, Rchnb. Syn. Av. f. 1430 (1847)_ ( ? ). 

 Leptoptila geoffroyi, Bp.Jide Bp. Consp. Av. ii. p. 75 (1854). 



Adult male. Bluish grey, paler (almost white) on the forehead and 

 throat, and changing into pure white on the abdomen, vent, and 

 under tail-coverts ; on the wings three oblique bands, one blue on 

 the smaller wing-coverts, and the other two of a purple- chestnut 

 on the median and greater wing-coverts; these bands are edged 

 with deep blue-black, and posteriorly with a second narrow light 

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

 with narrow light edges, broader and of a grey tinge on the second- 

 aries ; under wing-coverts black ; two central tail-feathers bluish 

 grey, the remainder white with the base grey, the grey part in- 

 creasing towards the central ones : " iris dark brown, with an 

 orange outer ring ; bill blackish ; feet blood-red " ( Wied). Total 

 length about 9'25 inches, wing 5-2, tail 3'6, bill 0'6, tarsus 0*85. 



Female. Beddish brown, paler on the forehead, throat, and ab- 

 domen, changing into fawn-colour on the vent and under tail- 

 coverts ; three oblique bands on the wings, a very narrow deep 

 blue one on the smaller wing-coverts, the other two on the median 



