28. LEPTOPTILA. 545 



b"'. Occiput and hind nock brown, with no 

 metallic colours; under/parts, including 

 the lower breast, conspicuously white, 

 like the throat, which is abruptly 

 defined from the dull vinous colour of 



the anterior part of the neck wellsi, p. 559. 



d". Upper parts cinnamon-brown ; lower parts 



very pale pallida, p. 560. 



Short-tailed group : breast grey or vinous grey. 

 c'. Occiput and nape rufous brown or dark 

 brown. 



e". Breast pure grey cassini, p. 500. 



f". Breast vinous grey. 



c'". Vinous-grey colour of the breast more 



greyish vinaceiventris, p. 561 . 



d'". Vinous-grey colour of the breast more 



rufescent cerviniventris, p. 561. 



d'. Occiput and nape bright rufous rujinucha, p. 562. 



1. Leptoptila brachyptera. 



Peristera jamaicensis, part., G. R. Gr. List Gallince Brit. Mus. p. 15, 

 spec, y (Mexico) (1844). 



Z[enaida] amabilis, McCall (uec Bp.), Pr. Ac. Nat. Sc. Philad. 1851, 

 p. 220 (between Matamoras and Camargo). 



Peristera brachyptera, G. R. Gr. List B. Brit. Mus. Columbse, p. 54 

 (1856) (Mexico) (descr. nulla). 



Leptoptila albifrons, Sclat. (nee Bp.*) P.Z. S. 1857, p. 214 (Orizaba), 

 1859, pp. 308 (Jalapa), 391 (Playa Vicente) ; Sclat. $ Salv. 

 Ibis, 1859, p. 22 (Duenas, Guatemala) ; Rchnb. Tauben, ii. 

 p. 164 (1862); Sclat. P. Z. S. 1864, p. 178 (Mexico); Sclat. 

 $ Salv. P. Z. S. 1864, p. 370 (part.) (Guatemala) ; iid. P. Z. S. 

 1808, p. 60 (Mexico and Guatemala), 1870, n. 838 (Honduras) ; 

 G. R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 242, n. 9380 ( 1870") : Lawr. Ann. Lye. 

 N. Y. x. p. 10 (1871) ; id. Pr. Boat. Sue. xiv. p. 274 (1871) (Tres 

 Marias Is.) ; Sousa, Mus. Nac. Lisb. Columbae, p. 19 (1873) : Sclat. 

 $ Salv. Nomencl.Ar. Neotrop. p. 133, n. 2 (1873); Edd. Ibis, 1874, 

 p. 456 (Guatemala) ; Lawr. Mem. Bost. Soc. ii. p. 305 (1874) 

 (Mazatlau, Tres Marias) ; Lawr. Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus.no. 4, p. 44 

 (1876) (Tehuantepec) ; (hues, Bull. Nutt. Om. Club, ii. p. 82 (1877) 

 (Hidalgo, Texas) ; Sanchez, An. Mus. Nac. Me.v. i. p. 105 (1878) 

 (Marias Is., Mazatlan, Yucatan) ; Brewer, Ibis, 1878, p. 204 

 (S. Un. States); Sanchez, An. Mus. Nac. Me.v. i. p. 105, u. 498 

 (1878) ; Sumichr. Naturaleza, v. p. 232, n. 34 (1881) ; Bouc. P. Z. S. 

 1883, p. 469 (Yucatan) ; Tristr. Cat. Coll. B. p. 40 (l8S!t) : Hein. 

 § Reluur. Nomencl. Mus. Hein. Om. p. 284 ( 1890). 



Peristera albifrons, Gieb. Thes. Om. iii. p. (i5(part.) (1S77). 



/Eehmoptila albifrons, Cones, Bull. U.S. Geot. Surv. Terr. iv. p. 48 

 (1878); Mdgw. Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. i.p. 158 (1878). 



Engyptila albifrons, Couea, Bull. Nutt. Urn. Club, v. p. 100(1880); 

 Rtdffio. Cut. n. 463 (1880) ; Cones, Cheek-list, 2nd ed. p. 91,n. 542 



* 1 have exnmint'd in the Museum of Paris the type of L. albifrons, Bp , 

 which is undoubtedly a specimen of L.jamaia nsis, the only one of this species 

 existing in the Museum ; also the description applies to it only. 



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