

30. GEOTRYGON. 571 



brighter violet colour, especially on the fore neck and breast. Total 

 length about 11 inches, wing (3, tail 3-5, bill 1, tarsus 1*3. 



Female. Rather darker than the continental females of G. montana, 

 but not more than those from St. Vincent. 



Hah. Dominica, Marlinica, St. Lucia, and probably also Guade- 

 loupe. 



a, b. S ad. sk. Dominica, W. Indies Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(F. A. Ober). 

 c, d, e. $ 2 ad. et St. Lucia, March, April. Royal Society [P.]. 



juv. sk. 



4. Geotrygon chrysia. 



Columba niontana, Temtn. & Enip (nee Li?in.), Pig. i. lam. trois. 

 p. 10, pi. 4 (1808-13) ; Temtn. Pig. et Gallin. i. pp. 305, 492 

 (syn. emend.) (1813) ; Desm. Diet. Sc. Nat. xxvi. p. 305 (part.) 

 (1826) ; And. (nee Linn.) Orn. Biogr. ii. p. 382, pi. clxvii. (1834) ; 

 Less. Ccm.pl. de Buff., Ois. riii. p. 6 (part.) (1837) : id. op. cit. 

 2nd ed. p. 270 (part.) (1838); Ami. Syn. p. 191 (1839); Nvtt. 

 Man. 2nd ed. i. p. 756 (1840) : Ami. B. N. Am. v. p. 14, pi. eclxxxii. 

 (1842). 



Zenaida niontana, Up. (nee Linn.) Comp. List, p. 41 (1838). 



Geotrygon martinica, Bp. (nee Linn.) Consp. Av. ii. p. 72 (1854) 

 (syn. emend.) : id. Compt. Bend. xl. p. 220, n. 212 (1866) ; id. I '>>/'/> 

 dceil OrdrePig. p. 58, n. 212 (1855) ; Cab. A" Gundl.J.f. 0. 1856, 

 p. 108 (Cuba) : Baud, List, n. 454 (1858) ; Bracer, Pi: Bost. Soc. 

 N. H. vii. p. 307 (Cuba) (I860); Gundl.J.f. O. 1861, pp. 336, 

 416 ; Cuws. ( 'heck-list, n. :576 ( 1874) ; Gundl. J. f. <>. Is74, pp. 293 

 (Cuba). 313 (Porto liico '?) : id. An. Hoc. Esp. Hist. Nat. vii. 

 p. 347 (1878) ; id. J. f. O. L878, pp. 161, 186; Ridgw. Cat. n. 467 

 (1880) ; Cory, B. Bahama Isl. p. 141 (1880) : Maynard, B. E. N. 

 Am. p. 341 (1881) ; Corns, Check-list X. Am. B. 2nd ed. p. 92 

 (1882) : id. Key N. Am. Birds, p. 571 (1884) ; Cory, B. Haiti 

 fySan Domingo, p. 133 (1885); id. List B. W.I. p. 24 (1885); 

 A. O. U. Chech-list X. Am. Birds, p. 182 (1886) ; Ridgw. Man, 

 N. Am. Birds, p. 216 (1887) ; Cory, Auk, 1887, p. 119 ; id. B. 

 W. Ind. p. 220 (1889); Scott, Auk, 1890, p. 90 (Key West); 

 Bendire, Life-Hist. X. A. Birds, p. 153 (1892). 



Geotrygon chrysia, Bp. in litt.Jide Consp. ii. p. 72 (1854) : id. Compt. 

 Bend. xl. p.'lOO (1855) ; id. Coup d'ail Ordre Pit/, p. 35 (1855). 



Peristera mystacea, G. B. Gr. {nee Temtn.) List B. Brit. mm. 

 Columba*, p. 55, specim. a,b (St. Domingo) (1856). 



Oreopeleia martinica, Bp. (nee Linn.) Compt. Bend, xliii. p. 944 

 (1866) : Buird. B. X. Am. p. 607 (1858); Rchnb. Tauben, i. p. 31 

 (descr. seel non ic. 1432, err. 1431) (1862) ; Gundl. Repert. Fisico- 

 Xat. Cuba, i. p. 299 ( L866) ; G. B. dr. Hand-list, ii. p. 242. n. 9376 

 (1870) : Buird, Breiv., $ Ridgw. Hist. X.-Atn. B. iii. p. 393 

 (1874). 



Columba chrysia. Burnt. Syst. I'd). Th. Bras., Vb'g. ii. p. 307 i L8S6). 



Goura martinica, Schleg. (nee Linn.) l)e Dierent. p. 208 (1864). 



Columba (Geotrygon) marlinica, Bryant (nee Linn.). Pr. Boat. 

 S,,c. Xat. Hist. xi. p. '.Mi (St. Domingo) (1866). 



Oropeleia martinica. Hern. Sf Reknw. (nee Linn.) Xomencl. Mus, 

 Hem. Orn. p. 285 (1,889). 



Adult. Forehead brownish red, changing into metallic green 



