13. PERISTERA. 495 



and greater wing-coverts of a chestnut colour, and edged behind 

 with a narrow band of fawn-colour ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, 

 and under wing-coverts blackish brown ; quills brown, with narrow 

 reddish edges ; two central tail-feathers reddish brown, the lateral 

 ones greyish towards the base, black about the middle, and reddish 

 fawn-colour at the tip. 



Yomig. Resembles the female (Wied). 



Hah. 's.E. Brazil. 



a. <5 ad. sk. S. America. Baron Laugier Coll. 



b. 2 ad. sk. S. America. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



c. Ad. sk. Brazil (Natterer). Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 d,e. d 2 ad. sk. Brazil. Gould Coll. 



f. 2 ad. sk. Bahia, Brazil ( Wuclurer). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



3. Peristera mondetoura. 



Peristera mondetoura, Up. Compt. Rend. xlii. pp. 765 (d), 957 ( J) 

 (1856), xliii. pp. 944, 949 (1856) (Caracas) ; id. Rev. et Mag. de 

 Zool. 1856, p. 248 ; id. Icon. Pig. pi. exxvi. ff. 1 ( tf ), 2 ( $ ) (1857) ; 

 Rehab. Tauben, ii. p. 164 (1862) ; Laior. Ann. Lye. X. Y. ix. p. 139 

 (1868) (Costa Rica) ; Frantz. J.f. O. 1869, p. .371 (Costa Rica) ; 

 6. R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 242, n. 9366 (1870) ; Sclat. $ Salv. 

 Nomencl. Av. Neotrop. p. 133, n. 3 (1873) (Peru, Venezuela, Costa 

 Kica, Mexico); Sclat. P. Z. S. 1873, pp. 780, 783 (Peru); Salv. 

 Ibis, 1874, p. 99 (Guatemala), p. 455 ; Gieb. Thes. Om. iii. p. 67 

 (1877) ; Tacz. 8? Berl. P. Z. S. 1885, p. Ill (Ecuador) : Tacz. Orn. 

 Per. iii. p. 251, Tables, p. 102 (1886) ; Zeled. An. Mits. Xac. Costa 

 Rica, 1877, p. 127, n. 592 (Costa Rica) : Sumichrast, Xaturaleza, 

 v. p. 232, n. 33 (1881) (Mexico) ; Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Xat. 

 Hist. ii. p. 151 (Bogota) (1889). 



Peristera lansbergii, Schleg. Mm. P.-B. Columbae, p. 139 (1873); 

 Salv. Lbis, 1874, p. 455 ( = mondetoura); Sharpe, Ibit, 1875, p. 53 

 (note) ; Gieb. Thes. Orn. iii. p. 67 (1877). 



Adult male. Upper parts dark grey, paler on the head, and with 

 a slight brown tinge on the back ; forehead and cheeks whitish 

 grey, chin white ; lower fore neck and upper breast deep chestnut, 

 lower breast and sides dark grey : flanks tinged with brown, middle 

 of the abdomen white ; under tail-coverts whitish ; three patches 

 of deep violet-blue spots on the outer webs of the smaller, median, 

 and greater upper wing-coverts ; quills brown-grey, under wing- 

 covrrts blackish, mixed with some rufous tinge ; central pair of 

 rectrices uniform grey, remainder of the rectrices dark grey at the 

 base, white on the apical half, which is tinged with grey on the 

 inner ones : " bill black ; eye pink ; legs and toes lead-colour " (27. 

 Whitely). Total length about 9 inches, wing 4*4, tail 2-4, bill 0-6, 

 tarsus 0-92. 



Female. Upper parts brown, with an olive lustre ; rufous ou the 

 forehead, cheeks, and throat, the last whitish in the middle ; also 

 the rump and upper tail-coverts tinged with dull rufous ; lower 

 fore neck and breast brownish grey, minutely freckled with duskv ; 

 sides and flanks olive-brown ; middle of the abdomen whitish, under 



