14. METRIOPELIA. 499 



h. Ad. sk. Lima, Peru (Nation). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



i. $ ad. sk. Prov. of Tarapaca, N. Berkeley James Coll. 



Chili, Feb. 



Jt-n. Ad. et juv. sk. Central Chili. Berkeley James Coll. 



o. Ad. ak. ' Chili. C. Crawley,Esq. [P.]. 



p, q. Ad. sk. Chili. Purchased. 



r. Ad. sk. Cordillera de Mendoza Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(Burmeister). 



s. Skeleton. Chili. Zool. Society's Coll. 



2. Metriopelia aymara. 



Columba aymara, UOrb. Syn. Av. MS. ; Knip fy Prev. Pig. ii. p. 62, 



pi. 32 (1838-43). 

 "Ghamsepelia ? aymara, G. P. Gr. Gen. B. ii. p. 475, n. 4 (1845) ; 



Gieb. Thes. Orn. i. p. 633 (1872). 

 Metriopelia aymara, Bp. Consp. Av. ii. p. 76 (1854) ; id. Compt. 



Bend. xl. pp. 23, 220, n. 223 (1855) ; id. Coup d'ceil Ordre Pig. 



pp. 40, 58, n. 223 (1855) ; Sclat. $ Salv. P. Z. S. 1867, p. 989 



(Salinas), 1868, p. 570; iid. Nomencl. Av. Neotrop. p. 132 (1873) ; 



iid. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 639 (Bolivia) ; Tacz. Orn. Per. iii. p. 240, 



Tables, p. 102 (1886) ; Sclat. P. Z. S. 1886, p. 402 (Tarapaca, N. 



Chili) ; James, New List of Chil. B. p. 10, n. 168 (1892). 

 Peristera aymara, G. R. Gr. List B. Brit. Mus. Columbse, p. 53 



(1856) (Bolivia). 

 MetviojiiLia aymara, Behnb. Tauben, i. p. 18 (1862), ii. p. 16, Novit. 



Suppl. t. i. f. 3 (1862) {ex Knip) : G. R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 242, 



n. 9370 (1870). 

 Columbina aurisquamata, Lexjbold, Leopoldina, Heft viii. uo. 7, p. 53 



(1873) ; id. Excurs. Pamp. Argent, p. 38 (1873) ; id. J. f. 0. 1875, 



p. 446. 

 .Melopelia melauoptera, part., Schleg. Mus. P.-B. Columba?, p. 153 



(1873). 



Adult male. Upper parts pale brown, with a slight vinous tinge ; 

 occiput somewhat dusky ; throat whitish ; sides of the neck and 

 breast pale vinous ; middle of the abdomen, flanks, vent, and basal 

 lateral under tail-coverts buff; remainder of the under tail-feathers 

 brown-black ; inner secondaries and upper wing-coverts uniform 

 with the back ; a row of golden spots at the tip of some of the 

 median upper wiug-coverts; primary-coverts and quills brown-black 

 the primaries velvety black at the base of the outer webs, and with a 

 cinnamon patch at the base of the inner webs ; under wing-coverts 

 greyish brown, the inner ones blackish, some of the anterior 

 ones and axillaries vinous, dusky towards the tips; tail rather 

 short, black, greyish towards the base, central pair of rectrices 

 greyish brown, darker at the tip; the upper tail-coverts very 

 abundant and long, falling short from the tip of the tail about 

 <)■:;.") of an inch: "iris brown; beak black; feet and legs light 

 pink" (//. Saunders). Total length about To inches, wing 4-7-3, 

 t.iil 2-4, bill 0-4, tarsus 0-8. 



Female. Similar to the male. 



You mi. Paler, with no vinous tinge on the breast, which is pale 

 greyish, and with no golden spots on the wing-coverts ; the feathers 

 of the upper parts have narrow whitish edges. 



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