28. LEPTOPTILA. 561 



changing into purer grey on the top of the crown, and into brown, 

 with a slight purple tinge, on the occiput ; hind neck grey, with a 

 purple lustre ; chin and middle of the throat whitish ; cheeks, throat, 

 sides of the neck, and breast grey, with a slight amethystine lustre 

 in some lights and changing into vinous on the lower breast ; flanks 

 brown, middle of the abdomen whitish ; under tail-coverts brown, 

 with the inner webs white towards the apical portion ; primaries 

 greyish brown ; under wing-coverts cinnamon ; axillaries brown, 

 tinged with rufous ; inner webs of the quills towards the base 

 slightly tinged with cinnamon ; tail brown, the lateral ones blacker, 

 the two outer pairs narrowly tipped with white : bill black ; feet 

 probably red. Total length about 9 - 5 inches, wing 5-25, tail 3, 

 bill 0-58, tarsus 1-2. 



Female. Similar to the male, but perhaps more olive on the upper 

 parts. 



Hah. Panama and Costa Rica. 



a-d. $ 2 ad. sk. Lion Hill, Isthmus of Pa- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



nama (McLeannan). 

 e. Ad. sk. Montana del Vermejo, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Veragua (Arce). 



15. Leptoptila vinaceiventris. 



Engyptila vinaceiventris, Ridgiv. Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. 1887, p. 583 

 (Honduras). 



Intermediate between L. cassini and L. ca~viniventi-is, and very 

 different from L. ntfinucha, with which it has been compared in 

 the original description : it differs from L. cassini in having the 

 upper breast not pure grey, but more or less tinged with vinaceous, 

 and the middle of the lower breast more vinous ; from L. cer- 

 viniventris it differs in having the lower throat and upper breast 

 more greyish. 



I have compared the specimen mentioned below with the type of 

 the species, from which it differs in showing a distinct purple tinge 

 on the hind neck and mantle, due to the freshness of the plumage. 



Hab. Honduras and Nicaragua. 



a. 3 ad. sk. La Libertad, Chontales, Salvin-Godiran Coll. 



Nicaragua, Jan. ( W. D. (Compared with 



Richardson). the type.) 



16. Leptoptila cerviniventris. 



Leptoptila, sp. ?, Salv. Ibis, 1861, p. 355 (Vera Paz). 



Leptoptila cerviniventris, Sclat. $ Salv. P. X. S. 1868, pp. 59, 60 

 (Vera Paz, Guatemala) ; G. H. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 243, n. 9:585 

 (1870) ; Sclat. $ Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotrop. p. 134, n. 9 (1873). 



Leptoptila cassini, Schleg. (nee Lawr.) Mus. P.-B. Columba?, p. 159 

 (1873) (Mexico!) ; Edd. Ibis, 1874, p. 456 ( = L. cerviniventris). 



Peristera cassini, part., Gieb. Thes. Orn. iii. p. 06 (^1877) 

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