558 PEKISTERID-E. 



Columba rufaxilla, part., Waff I. Si/st. Av. Columba, sp. 66 (1827). 

 Peristera jarnaicensis, Selb. Nat. Libr., Pigeons, p. 207 (part.) (1835) ; 



G. R. Gr. Gen. B. ii. p. 476, d. 4 (1845) (excl. syn.) ; Gosse, B. 



Jam. p. 313 (1847) ; id. Nat. Soj. in Jam. p. 173 (1851) ; G. R. 



Gr. List B. Brit. Mtis. Columbae, p. 53 (1856) ; Gieb. Tlies. Ore. iii. 



p. 67 (1877). 

 Leptoptila jarnaicensis, Rchnb. Av. Syst. Nat. p. xxv (1852) ; Bp. 



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



n. 214 (1855) ; id. Coup d'ceil Ordr. Pig. pp. 36, 58, n. 214 (1855) ; 



id. Compt. Rend, xliii. p. 944 (1856) ; id. Icon. Piq. pi. 119 (1857) ; 



Rchnb. Tauben, i. p. 24 (1862) ; March, Pr. Acad. N S. Philad. 



1863, p. 302 ; Sclat. 8,- Salv. P. Z. S. 1868, p. 60 ; G. R. Gr. 



Hand-list, ii. p. 242, n. 9379 (1870) ; Sclat. $ Salv. Nomencl. Av. 



Neotrop. p. 133, n. 1 (1873) (Jamaica) ; Edd. Ibis, 1874, p. 456; 



Sclat. List Vert. An. 8tli ed. p. 457 (1883) (Cozumel Isl. !) ; Salv. 



Ibis, 1885, p. 193 (part.) (Jamaica only) ; Tristr. Cat. Coll. B. 



p. 40 (1889). 

 Leptoptila albifrons, Bp. Consp. Av. ii. p. 74* (Mexico !, Cuba !) (type 



examined) ; id. Compt. Rend. xl. pp. 99, 220, n. 218 (1855) ; id. 



Coup d'ceil Ordre Pig. pp. 36, 58, n. 218 (1855) ; ? id. Compt. Rend. 



xliii. p. 944 (1856); Rchnb. Tauben, i. p. 26 (1862); Schleg. 



{nee Bp.) Mus. P.-B. Columba;. p. 160 (Cuba!) (1873) ; Edd. Ibis, 



1874, p. 456 (=jamaicensis). 

 Leptoptila rufaxilla, Rchnb. Tauben, i. p. 25 (part.) (1862). 

 Engyptila jarnaicensis, A. fy E. Neict. Hanclb. Jam. p. 114 (1881) ; 



Salv. Cat. Ii. Stack!. Coll. p. 550 (1882) ; Cory, List B. W. Bid. 



p. 23 (1885) ; id. Auk, 1887, p. Ill ; id. B. W'lnd. p. 212 (1889) ; 



Scott, Auk, 1892, p. 123 (Jamaica). 



Adult. Upper parts olive, glossy in some lights ; forehead white, 

 shading into grey on the crown and bronze-grey on the occiput ; 

 hind neck coppery red, with bronze or golden-green reflections on 

 the lower part, and purple-blue ones where it joins the mantle ; 

 throat white-greyish ; crop-region white, with an amethystine 

 lustre, more conspicuous towards the side : lower breast, abdomen, 

 and under tail-coverts white ; sides slightly greyish brown; quills 

 greyish brown, partially edged with whitish on the outer web ; 

 inner web of the quills below, under wing-coverts, and axillaries 

 cinnamon ; two central tail-feathers olive, the remaiudcr greyish 

 brown, with the tips, and the outer one also with the edge of the outer 

 web, white ; shafts of the tail-feathers light reddish brown : bill 

 black; feet purple-pink (?). Total length about 11 inches, wing 

 6-25, tail 4-25, bill 0"65, tarsus 1-25. 



Hob. Jamaica. 



a. Ad. st. Jamaica. P. H. Gosse, Esq. [P.]. 



b. Ad. sk. Jamaica (Gosse). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



c. Ad. sk. Jamaica. Zoological Society's Coll. 



* According to Bonaparte there is a Peristera albifrons, G. R. Gr. List Spec. 

 T!r. Mus. p. 15, which he says (Compt. Rend, xliii. p. 944) is the same as 

 Geotn/gon caniccps. Cab., and G. albi/acies, Gr. (!) ; but I have failed to discover 

 that- Gray ever established that name — certainly it is not in the ' List of Gallinas' 

 (1844). 



