550 peeisterid^;. 



Hah. Costa Rica, Veragua, Panama, Columbia, Venezuela, 

 Bonaire (Hartert), Guiana, Ecuador, and Peru. 



a, b. J ad. et San Jos<5, Costa Rica, Jan. Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 ad. sk. Nov. (J. Carmiol). 



c. c? ad. sk. Santa Fe, Veragua (Are6). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



d. S ad. sk. Cordillera de Tole, Veragua Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(Arce). 



e. c? ad. sk. Bugaba, Chiriqui (Arce). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



f. y, h. <5 $ Lion Hill, Isthmus of Panama Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 ad. sk. (McClelland). 



i. 2 ad. sk. Medellin, U.S. of Colombia Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(T. K. 8ahiK,n i. 

 Jc. cf ad. sk. Minca,2000ft.,U.S.of Colom- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



bia, Feb. (F. A. A. Simons). 

 1. (J ad. sk. Puerto Cabello, Venezuela Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(A. Goeriny). 

 m, n. Ad. sk. Trinidad. Zoological Society's Coll. 



(Two of the types of Peristera brevipennis.) 

 British Guiana. Sir R. Schomburgk [P.]. 



Quonga, British Guiana, Sept. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



to Nov. (H. Whitely). 

 Pallatanga,Ecuador(JFV«s«*). Eyton Coll. 

 Ecuador (Fraser). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Santa Rita, Ecuador (Buck- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



ley). 

 Huiro, Peru. Aug. (H. Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Whitely). 

 y. Ad. sk. S. America. Purchased of Verreaux. 



(One of the types of Peristera brevipennis, Gray.) 

 z. Ad. sk. S. America. Purchased. 



3. Leptoptila plumbeiceps. 



Leptoptila rufaxilla, Bp. (nee Rich, fy Bern.) P. Z. S. 1837, p. 113 



(Mexico) ; Sclat. P. Z. S. 1856, p. 309 (Cordova) ; Salv. $■ Sclat. 



Ibis, 1860, p. 402 (Guatemala) ; Gieb. Thes. Orn. iii. p. 67 (part.) 



(1877). 

 Leptoptila plumbeiceps, Sclat. $ Salv. P. Z. S. 1868, pp. 59, 60 



(Vera Paz in Guatemala and Mexico) ; G. R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. 



p. 243, n. 9386 (1870) ; Law?: Ami. Lye. N. Y. x. p. 16 (1871) ; 



Schley. Mus. P.-B. Columba;, p. 160 (1873); Sclat. # Salv. 



Nomencl. Av. Neotrop. p. 133, n. 8 (1873) ; Tristr. Cat. Coll. B. 



p. 40 (1889). 

 Leptoptila bonapartii, Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. x. p. 15 (1871) 



(Mexico) (type examined); Salv. Ibis, 1874, p. 312 (=L. plum- 

 beiceps). 

 Peristera plumbeiceps, Gieb. Thes. Orn. ii. p. 468 (1875). 

 Peristera bonapartei, Gieb. Thes. Orn. iii. p. 66 (1877). 



Adult male. Upper parts brown-olive, with a slight purple-russet 

 tinge on the mantle ; upper part of the head dark grey, paler, 

 almost whitish, on the forehead, and with a slight purple tinge on 

 the occiput ; hind neck greyish with a purple-violet wash ; cheeks 

 and ear-coverts rufescent ; upper throat white ; lower throat and 

 breast vinous, changing into white on the abdomen and under tail- 



