554 PERISTERID.E. 



Leptoptila rufescens, Berl. J. f. O. 1874, pp. 246, 247 (Brazil) ; 



Berl. Zeitschr. d. yes. Orn. 1885, p. 177 ( = L. reichenbachi). 

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

 Peristera rufescens, Gieb. Thes. Orn. iii. p. 67 (1877). 



Adult male. Upper parts glossy brown-olive ; forehead whitish, 

 changing into bluish grey on the crown ; hind part of the head, 

 nape, and upper mantle brown, with a purple gloss ; chin and 

 middle of the throat whitish ; cheeks, sides of the neck, lower 

 throat, and breast deep rufous vinous ; sides and flanks brown ; 

 middle of the abdomen white ; under tail-coverts brown, with the 

 apical portion of the inner webs whitish ; primaries brown ; under 

 wing-coverts and bases of the inner webs of the primaries cinnamon, 

 the latter less bright ; four central tail-feathers brown-olive, the 

 remainder more slate, blackish towards the apical portion ; the 

 three outer pairs tipped with white : bill black, feet probably red. 

 Total length 10-5 to 11 inches, wing 5-5 to 6, tail 4, bill - 56 to 

 0-60, tarsus 1-15 to 1-30. 



Hah. S. Brazil and Uruguay. 



a. Ad.sk. S. America (Verreaux). Purchased. ( 



b. Ad. st. S. America. Baron Laugier Coll. j 



(Types of Peristera macrodactylus, G. R. Gr.) 



c. cJad.sk. Mattodendro,I)ec.(iVatter«*)*. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



d. Ad. sk. Cantagallo, S.E. Brazil (C. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Euler). (One of the types of Leptoptila 



rufescens, Berl.) 



e. Ad. sk. Payeandu, Uruguay, Aug. A. Peel, Esq. [C.]. 



7. Leptoptila chloroauchenia. 



Paloma parda tapadas roxas, Azara, Apimt. i. p. 12, n. 320 (1803) ; 



id. Voy. (ed. Sonn.) iv. p. 130, n. 320 (1809); Vieill, N. D. xxvi. 



p. 399 (1818) ; Bp. Compt. Bend, xliii. p. 945, note (1856). 

 Columba jamaicensis, part., Temm. Pig. et Gallin. i. pp. 411, 495 



(1813) ; Desm. Nouv. Diet. xl. p. 307 (part.) (1826) ; Less. Compl. 



de Buff., Ois. viii. p. 8 (part.) (1837) : id. op. cit. 2nd ed. p. 271 



(part.) (1838). 

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

 Peristera jamaicensis, Hart I. (nee Linn.) Ind. Azar. Apunt. p. 20, 



n. 320 (1847) (excl. syn.) ; G. II. Gr. Gen. B. App. p. 24 (1849). 

 Peristera frontalis, fcern., Barm, (nee Temm.) Syst. Ueb. Th. Bras., 



Voy. ii. p. 305 (1856) ; id. J.f. O. 1860, p. 259, sp. 192 ; id. Reise 



La Plata, h.p. 497, n. 190 (excl. syn.) (1861). 

 Leptoptila chalcauchenia, Salvad. MS. ; Sclat. §• Sah. P. Z. S. 9 Dec. 



1869, p. 633 (Argentine Republic) ; iid. Nomeucl. Av. Neotrop. 



p. 133, n.5 (1873) ; Berl. J.f. O. 1874, pp. 243, 245, 247 ; Bumf. 



Ibis, 1877, p. 193; Salv. Ibis, 1880, p. 363 (Tucuman, Parana, La 



* This specimen, received from the Vienna Museum, with batterer's original 

 label still attached, ought to he one of the typical specimens, but, strange 

 enough, these (three in number) were said to be all from Ypanema .' Matto- 

 dendro is mentioned by Pelzeln only among the localities of L. ochroptera. 



