28. LEPTOPTILA. 557 



the tip, cinnamon ; upper tail-coverts with paler greyish edges ; 

 central tail-feathers uniform with the back, the remaining five pairs 

 greyish brown at the base, then blackish and broadly tipped with 

 white : bill black ; feet red. Total length about 11 inches, wing 5-8, 

 tail 4-7, bill 0-6, tarsus 1-2. 



This species is easily distinguished by the hind neck being grey 

 with amethystine lustre, and no coppery or green reflections. 



Bab. Bolivia. 



a, b. Ad. sk. Tilotilo, Prov. Yungas, Bolivia Salvin-GodmanColl. 

 (C.Buckley). (Types of species.) 



10. Leptoptila gauroeri. 



Engyptila gaumeri, Lawr. Ann. N. York Ac. hi. p. 157 (1884) 



(Yucatan) (type examined); Salv. Ibis,1885, p. 193 (=E. janiai- 



censis). 

 Engyptila jamaicensis, part., Salv. Ibis, 1885, pp. 186, 193 (Yucatan 



&"Cozumel I.), 1889, p. 378 (Holbox I., Mugeres I., Cozumel I.). 



1890, pp. 89, 91, 92, 93. 



This species differs from L. jamaicensis in the more vinous tinge 

 on the lower throat and breast, and reddish-brown tinge on the outer 

 web of the primaries, which have distinct chocolate-rufous outer 

 edges. Besides, the shafts of the tail-feathers are dark brown, while 

 those of L. jamaicensis are light reddish brown. 



The adult male (?) has the olive of the back and upper wing- 

 coverts washed with purple, which is absent in other specimens r 

 probably females. 



Hab. Northern Yucatan, Cozumel, Holbox and Mugeres Islands. 



a. Ad. sk. Northern Yucatan (G. F. Salvin-Godman Coll." 



Gaumer). 



b. Ad. sk. Cozumel Island, Yucatan, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



April {E. C. Devis). 

 c-z. $ $ ad. Cozumel Island, Yucatan Salvin-Godman Coll. [ ^" 



sk. (G. F. Gaumer). 



a'-e'. Ad. sk. Mugeres Island, Yucatan, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Dec. (G. F. Gaumer). 

 f ' ,g '. Ad. sk. Holbox Island, Yucatan, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Dec. (G. F. Gaumer). 



11. Leptoptila jamaicensis. 



Columba minor, ventre candido, Shane, J'oy. to Jam. ii. p. 303, t. 262. 



f. 1 (1705-25). 

 Columba jamaicensis, Briss. Orn. i. p. 134, n. 31 (1700) ; Linn. S. i\ T . 



i. p. 283, n. 25 (1706) ; Gm. S. N. i. p. 782, n. 25 (1788) ; Lath. 



2nd. Orn. ii. p. 595, n. 8 (1790) ; Bonn. Enc. M, th. p. 236 (1790) ; 



Temm. Pig. et Gal/in. i. pp. 411, 495 (part.) (1813) : Vieill. N. D. 



xxvi. p. 398 (part.) (1818) ; Desm. Diet. Sc. Nat. xl. p. 307 (part.) 



(1826); Less. Compl. de Buff., Ois. viii. p. 8 (part.) (Is37) : id. op 



cit. 2nd ed. p. 271 (1838) ; Benny, P. /.. 8. L837, p. 39. 

 Pigeon de la Jamaique, Jlaft. Hist. Nat. Ois. ii. p 529, pi. 21 (1771). 

 White-bellied Pigeon, Lath. Syn. ii. 2, p. 619, n. 8 (1783). 

 Goura jamaicensis, Steph. Gen. Zool. xi. p. 126 (1819). 



