572 PERISTERID.E. 



with some violet reflections on the crown, occiput, and nape ; rest 

 of the upper parts cinnamon, with the feathers edged with brilliant 

 metallic purple, duller and more golden on the lower back, rump, 

 and upper tail-coverts ; a band below the eyes and throat white ; 

 malar stripes reddish brown ; lower throat and breast pale vina- 

 ceous, with a greyish tinge lower down, and changing into whitish 

 ou the abdomen ; axillars pale reddish ; under tail-coverts whitish, 

 very minutely dotted or dusted with brown, and towards the bases 

 brown ; wings cinnamon, the smaller upper wing-coverts edged with 

 brilliant purple, like the back ; primaries brownish on the edges of 

 the apical portion ; under wing-coverts cinnamon ; tail cinnamon, 

 the lateral feathers whitish on the edges of the tips, and with 

 brown dots near the tip : " bill red ; feet light red ; iris light 

 brown " ( Cory). Total length about 1 1 inches, wing 6, tail 4, 

 bill 0-6, tarsus 1. 



Female. Apparently differs from the male in being duller, and 

 especially in having a good deal of pale brown on the wings. 



Hah. Haiti, Cuba, Bahamas, and Florida Keys. 



a. <$ ad. sk. Cuba. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



b. 5 ad. st. San Domingo. < Josse Coll. 



c. $ ad. sk. Zoological Society's Coll. 



5. Geotrygon mystacea. 



Columba mvstacea, Temm. $ Knip, Piq. i. fam. sec. p. 124, pi. 56 

 (1808-11) ; Temm. Pig. et Gallin. i. 'pp. 275, 473 (1813) ; Vieill. 

 N. D. xxvi. p. 355 (1818) ; Shaw, Gen. Zool. xi. p. 56 (1819) ; 

 Vieill. Enc. Meth. i. p. 381 (1823) ; Desm. Bid. Sc. Xat. xl. p. 337 

 (1826); Wagl. Si/st. Av. Columba, sp. 66 (1827); Hearne, P. Z. S, 

 1834, p. 110; Less. Compl. de Buff., Ois. viii. p. 62 (1837) ; id. op. 

 cit. 2nd ed. p. 286 (1838); Gulliv. P. Z. S. 1844, p. 10; Burm. 

 Syst. Ueb. Th. Bras., Vdg. ii. p. 307 (1856) ; Gulliv. P. Z. S. 1875, 

 p. 489. 



Peristera mystacea, G. R. Gr. Gen. B. ii. p. 476, n. 13 (1845) ; 

 Rchnb. Syn. Av. Columbariae, Novit. t. 257 b. f. 3387 (en-ore, lege 

 3382) (1851). 



Geotrygon mystacea, Bp. Comp. Av. ii. p. 71 (1854); id. Compt. 

 Rend. xl. pp. 100 (part., St. Lucia, nee Bogota), 220, n. 207 

 (1855) ; id. Coupdocil Ordre Piq. pp. 35 (part."), 58, n. 207 (1855) ; 

 Sclat. P. Z. S. 1855, p. 163 ; Bp. Compt. Rend, xliii. p. 943 (1856) ; 

 G. R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 243, n. 9394 (1870) ; Sclat. P. Z. S. 1871, 

 p. 267; Sclat. $ Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotrop. p. 134, n. 2 (1873) ; 

 Gieb. Thes. Orn. ii. p. 255 (1875) ; Later. Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. i. 

 p. 487 (1878) (Guadeloupe) ; Sclat. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 765 (M.mt- 

 serrat) ; Allen, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, v. p. 169 (1880) (Santa 

 Lucia) ; Sclat. List Vert. An. 8th ed. p. 457 (1883); Cory, List 

 B. W. Ind. p. 24 (1885) ; id. Ibis, 1886, p. 475 (Grande Terre) ; id. 

 Auk, 1887, p. 117; id. B. W. Ind. p. 218 (1889). 



Oreopeleia mystacea, Rchnb. Tauben, i. p. 32 (part.), t. 2576. f. 3382 

 (1862). 



Starnoenas mystacea, Schley. Mus. P.-B. Columbas, p. 164 (1873) 

 (type). 



? Geotrygon sp. inc., Grisdale, Ibis, 1882, pp. 486, 492 (Mont- 

 serrat). 



