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coverts ; the latter with a dusky-grey tinge on the outer webs ; 

 6ides brown ; quills greyish brown ; under wing-coverts, axillaries, 

 and inner webs of the quills, towards their bases, cinnamon ; central 

 4 or 6 tail-feathers brown-olive, the remainder blackish brown 

 tipped with white : " bill black, feet flesh-colour " (Salvin). Total 

 length about 105 inches, wing 5-6, tail 3-8, bill 065, tarsus 1*25. 



Female. Similar, only somewhat smaller. 



Young birds are duller, more olive on the upper parts, with the 

 feathers edged with rufous ; more brown and less vinous on the 

 breast, where some feathers have subterminal crescentic brown 

 bands. 



Hab. Eastern Mexico to Guatemala. 



a, b. $ ad. et $ Tampico, Mexico, Feb., March Salvin-Godman Coll. 



juv. sk. ( W. B. Richardson), 



c. Juv. sk. Atoyac, Vera Cruz, Mexico, Salviu-Godman Coll. 



April (D. W. Smith). 

 d-g. c? ? ad. sk. Teapa, Mexico, Feb. (D. W. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Smith), 

 h. 5 ad. sk. Valley of Mexico (H. S. le Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Strange), 

 i. Ad. sk. Yega del Casadero,Vera Cruz, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Mexico, Dec. (J/. Trujillo). 

 k, I. Ad. sk. Orange Walk, Brit. Honduras, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Dec. (G. F. Gaumer). 

 m. 5ad.sk. Cayo,W. Dist. Brit. Honduras Salvin-Godman Coll. 



{F. Blancaneaux). 

 n,o,p. Ad.sk. Choctum, Vera Paz, filiate- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



mala, Jan. (0. S.). 

 q. ($ ad. sk. Choctum, Vera Paz, Guate- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



mala (O. S. # F. D. G.). (Type of species.) 



4. Leptoptila rufaxilla. 



Columba rufaxilla, Richard § Bernard, Act. Soc. Hist. Nat. Paris, 



i. p. 118, n. 74 (1792) (Cayenne) ; Meyer, Zoo!. Annul, i. p. 159 



(1794) ; Wagl. Syst. Av. Columba, sp. 69 (part.) (1827). 

 Columba frontalis, Temm. 3f Knip, Pig. i. fain, trois. p. 18, pi. 10 



(1808-11) (Gujana); Less. Tr. d'Orn. p. 474 (18:51). 

 Columba jamajcensis, Temm. Pig. et Gallia, i. pp. 411, 495 (part.) 



(1818) ; Vieill. N. D. xxvi. p. 398 (part.) (1818) ; Beam. Diet. 



Sc. Nat. xl. p. 307 (part. - ) (1826); Less. Compl. de Bvf., Ois. viii. 



p. 8 (part.) (1837) : id. op. cit. 2nd ed. p. 271 (pan.) (1838). 

 Peristera rufaxilla, Selb. Nat. Libr., Pigeons, pi. 24 (1835); Hartl. 



Syst. Verz. p. 99 (1844); G. A'. Gr. List B. Brit. Mm. Columbas, 



p. 53 (part.) ( 1856); Gieb. Thes. Orn. iii. y. 67 (part.) (1877). 

 Peristera jamaicensis, part., Selb. Nat. Libr., J'u/i'ims, p. 270 (1835); 



G. R. Gr. Gen. />'. ii. p. 476, n. 4 (pari.) ( L845); Rchnb. Sgn. Av. 



ff. 1436-37 (I s 17) (i-r Temmi-iiel; Sr Selby) ; Cab. in Schomb. 



Guiana, iii. p. 744 (1848) (Guiana). 

 Leptoptila rufaxilla, Sw. Via**. />'. ii. p. .".49 (1837); Bp. Cons/i 



Av. ii. p. 73 (part.) (1854): id. Compt. Rend. xl. pp. 99. 220, 



n. 216 (1855) ; id. Coup d'ail Ordre Pig. pp. 36, 5S, n. 216 (1855) ; 



? id. Compt. Rend. xlii. p. 945 (1856); Rchnb. Tauben, i. p. 25 



