29. osculaha. 563 



29. OSCULATIA. 



Type. 

 Osculatia, Bp. Cotisp. Av. ii. p. 73 (1854) 0. sapphirina. 



Range, Ecuador. 



Keif to the Species. 



a. Occiput metallic green ; a white spot on one of 



the inner secondaries sapphirina, p. 5 63 



h. Crown and occiput deep purple-blue ; inner 



secondaries uniform, none with a white spot 



near the tip purpurea, p. 563. 



1. Osculatia sapphirina. 



Geotrvgon saphirina, Bp. Mus. Paris, 1853, fide Bp. Consp. Av. ii. 



p. 73 (1854). 

 Osculatia saphirina, Bp. Consp. Av. ii. p. 73 (1854) ; id. Compt. 



Rend. xl. pp. 101, 220, n. 213 (1855); id. Coup d'ceil Ordre Pia, 



pp. 35, 58, n. 213 (1855) ; id. Icon. Pig. pi. 116 (1857) ; Rchnb. 

 Tauben, i. p. 30 (1862) ; G. R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 242, n. 9370 



(1870) ; Salv. Ibis, 1878, pp. 447, 448, 449 ; Sclat. $ Solo. P. Z. S. 



1880, p. 155. 

 Geotrygon sapphirina, Sclat. Sr Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotrop. p. 134, 



n. 10(1873); Gieb. Thes. Orn. ii. p. 256 (1875). 



Adult. Forehead white, changing into grey on the vertex ; 

 occiput golden green, changing into bronze-green with coppery or 

 purple reflections on the hind neck and mantle ; back, scapulars, and 

 smaller upper wing-covorts purple ; rump and upper tail-coverts 

 purple -blue ; cheeks whitish grey, bordered below by a purple-black 

 band ; sides of tho neck grey ; throat, breast, and abdomen white, 

 the breast with a slight grey tinge ; under tail-coverts buff or 

 fulvous, with the hidden bases blackish ; primaries slate-brown ; 

 secondaries and greater wing-coverts brown-chestnut, one of the 

 inner secondaries with a white spot towards the tip of the outer web ; 

 outer under wing-coverts d irk brown, the inner ones, the axillaries, 

 and also the sides dull fulvous, mottled with grey dots ; on the 

 upper part of the sides there is a patch of short white feathers, 

 bordered below by a purple band; quills underneath grey; bail 

 slate-black, the lateral feathers with a grey terminal band, the outer 

 feathers havea white spot near the tip of the outer webs : bill blackish ; 

 feel in drv skins pink. Total length about 9 inches, wing 5-3, 

 tail 3-2, bill 0-65, tarsus 1-4. 



Hab. E. Ecuador. 



a-d. Ad. sk. Sarayacu, Ecuador, Dec, Feb. C. Buckley [0.]. 



2. Osculatia purpurea. (Plate XIY.) 



Osculatia purpurea, Salv. Ibis, 1878, p. 448 (Ecuador). 

 Adult (typo). Similar to 0. sapphirina, but tho crown and 



