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14. METRIOPELIA. 



lype. 



Metriopelia, Bp. Consp. An. ii. p. 75 (1854) ; id. 



Compt. Rend. xl. p. 23 (1855) M. melanoptera. 



Metriopeleia, Pchnb. Tauten, i. p. 17 (1862). 



Range. Western S. America from Ecuador to Chili, and also 

 Argentine side of the Cordilleras. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Tail longer, 8"75 inches ; upper tail-coverts 



reaching ahout an inch from the tip of the tail ; 

 bend of the wing white ; upper wing-coverts 

 with no golden spots melanoptera, p. 497. 



b. Tail shorter, 2"4 inches ; upper tail-coverts 



reaching 0'4 of an inch from the tip of the 

 tail ; bend of the wing with no white ; median 

 upper wing-coverts with golden spots at the tip. aymara, p. 499. 



1. Metriopelia melanoptera. 



Columba melanoptera, Mol. Hist. Nat. Chili, p. 308 (1782) : Gm. S. 



N. i. p. 790, n. 70 (1788) ; Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 615, n. 78 (1790) ; 



Bonn. Tab/. Enc. Meth.' p. 257 (1790) ; Vieill. N. D. xxvi. p. 344 



(1818) ; Wagl. Syst. Av. Columba (sp. releganda 7) (1827) ; Burm. 



Syst. TJeb. Thier. Bras., Toy. ii. p. 301 (1856). 

 Black-winged Pigeon, Lath. Gen. Syn. Suppl. ii. p. 271 (1802). 

 Columba boliviana, HOrb. $ Lafr. in Eyd. 8[ Gerv. May. de 



Zool. 1836, p. 33, pi. 75 ; iid. Voy. de la Favor, v. 2, p. 59, 



pi. 23 (1839) ; Less. Compl. de Buff. 2nd ed. p. 286 (1838) ; Knip 



4- Prev. Piq. ii. p. 43, pi. 22 (1838-44) ; Bridges, P. Z. S. 1841, 



p. 95 (Chile); Eraser, P. Z. S. 1843, p. 115; ' Jard. Contr. Orn. 



1849, p. 44 (Quito). 

 Columbina boliviana, G. P. Gr. List of Gallinee B. M. p. 13 (1844) ; 



Hurtl. Naumannia, 1853, p. 221. 

 Peristera boliviana, G. P. Gr. Gen. B. ii. p. 476, n. 17 (1845). 

 Zenaida boliviana, Des Murs, in Gay's Hist, de Chile, i. p. 379 (1847) ; 



Pchnb. Syn. Av. Columbaria;, Novit. t. 2536. ff. 3375-76 (1851) : 



id. Av. Syst. Nat. p. xxiv (1852)'; MaeFarl. Ibis, 1887, p. 202. 

 Zenaida innotata, Hartl. Per. et May. de Zool. 1851, p. 74 (Chili) ; 



id. Naumannia, 1853, p. 221 ; id. Berieht Vog. siidl. Philipp. p. 5, 



sp. 114 (fide Bp. Consp. Av. ii. p. 76). 

 Chamaepelia melanura, Pchnb. in Bibra, Denkschr.k.Ak. Wissensch. 



v. 2, p. 130 (1853) (Cordillera of Chili) ; id. J.f. O. 1855, p. 56. 

 Columbula boliviana, Bp. in lift. 



Metriopelia melanoptera, Bp. Consp. Av. ii. p. 75 (1854) : id. Compt. 

 Pend. xl. pp. 23, 220, n. 222 (1855) ; id. Coup d'ail Ordre Pig. 



pp. 40, 68, n. 222 (1855) ; Burm. J.f. O. 1860, p. 259; id. La- 



und am Unterkiefer gelb ; Tarsen gelbichroth ; Iris schwefelgelb. Ganze Liinge 

 9" 6'", Schnabel 9"', Fliigel 4" 10"', Tarse 7'"." (Tschudi.)" 



Tschudi includes this species in the subgenus Starnanas (potius Gcotrygon), 

 together with Geotrygon frenata (Tsch.), to which most likely it is nearly allied. 



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