27. HAPLOPKLIA. 539 



Una, 1888, p. 298; Sharpe, Lai/ard's B. S. A/r.-p. 564(1884); 

 Trktr. Cat. Coll. B. p. 40 (1889) *. 



Adult male. Front half of the head and upper throat white; 

 cheeks and ear-coverts white, faintly tinted with vinous ashy; 

 hind part of the head and neck coppery purple, now and then 

 with green reflections, stronger on the lower part of the hind 

 neck ; interscapular region slate-colour, the edges of the feathers 

 coppery, with green reflections ; remainder of the upper parts 

 brown-olive ; fore neck and breast dull vinous, changing into 

 dusky brown on the sides of the body and into rufous cinnamon on 

 the abdomen, vent, and under tail-coverts ; the neck has purple- 

 metallic shades ; quills and under wing-coverts greyish brown ; 

 two central tail-feathers olive-brown, the next pair olive-brown 

 with a grey shade near the tip ; remainder blackish brown, with a 

 broad apical dark grey band : "iris deep lilac ; bill black : bare 



* Also the following synonyms and references probably belong to the present 

 species : — 



Columba erythrothorax, Temm. <f- Knip, Pig. i. fam. trois p. 15, pi. vii. 



(1808-11) (Surinam ?) ; Temm. Pig. et Gal/in. i. pp. 405, 494 (1813) ; 

 Vieill. N. I), xxvi. p. 395 (1818) ; id. Enc. Meth. i. p. 383 (1823) ; Desm. 



Diet. Sc. Nat. si. p. 306 (1826) ; Wagl. Syst. Av. Columba, sp. 68 (1827) ; 



Less. Compl. de Bvff., Ois. viii. p. 7 (1837) ; id. op. cit. 2nd ed. p. 270 



(1838) ; Burm. Syst. Ueb. Th. Bras., Tog. ii. p. 306 (1856). 

 Goura erythrothorax, Steph. Gen. Zool. xi. p. 127 (1819). 

 Peristera erythrothorax, G. B. Gr. Gen. B. Index, p. 77 (1849): Echnb. 



Syn. Av. Columbaria 1 , JSovit. t. 257 b. f. 3385 (ex Temm. $ Knip) 



(1851). 

 Leptoptila erythrothorax, Bp. Consp. Av. ii. p. 74 (1854); id.Compt. Bend. 



xl. pp. 99, 220, n. 217 (1855); id. Coup d'ceil Ordre Pig. pp. 36, 58, 



n. 217 (1855); Bchnb. Tauben, i. p. 26, t. 257 b. f. 3385 '(1862) ; Pets. 



Orn. Bras. pp. 279 (uote), 451 (1870) ; G. B. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 243, 



n. 9384 (part.) (1870) ; Berl. J. f. O. 1874, p. 247 (part.). 

 Peristera erythrothorax, part., Gieb. Tfies. Orn. iii. p. 66(1877). 

 ? Leptoptila rufaxilla, Hartert (nee auct.), Kat. Vogelsamml. p. 187, 



n. 2824(1891). 

 ? Peristera angustipennis, Bp. Mas. Fran/,- fort, ex Java .' fide Hartert, I. c. 



note l . 



Columba erythrothorax, Ternm., said to be from Surinam, cannot be identified 

 wit li any of the known species of the genus Leptoptila ; it has the forehead, face, 

 and throat white ; the breast rufous vinous, changing into cinnamon on t lie 

 abdomen and under tail-coverts; the lateral tail-feathers broadly tipped with 

 white ; on each side of the breast there is a dark (metallic ?) patch. 



It cannot be Leptoptila reichenbachi, on account of the broadly white-tipped 

 lateral tail-feathers and of the chestnut under tail-coverts; in both characters, 

 ns well as in the want of grey on the crown and in the white face, it resembles 

 Haplupclia larvata and H.johnstoni, and to one of these I think that it must be 

 assigned; Gray (Gen. B. ii. p. 476) had already Buspected the identity of 

 C. erythrothorax, Temm., with Haplope/ia larvata. 



1 Bonaparte (Compt. Bend. xl. p. 99; Coup d'ceil Ordre Pig. p. 3<1) had 

 already mentioned the bird in the Museum of Frankfort as from Java(!), but 

 he identified it with L. erythrothorax, and not with /.. rufaxilla. 



