30. GE0TR1G0N. 573 



Adult male. Forehead brownish, shading into brown-green ; hind 

 neck and upper back metallic green, becoming bright purple, with 

 purple reflections on reaching the back ; lower back, rump, upper 

 tail-coverts, wing-coverts, inner secondaries, and tertials olive- 

 brown ; broad malar stripes and middle of the throat whitish ; a 

 second malar stripe brown ; front part of the neck and crop-region 

 reddish, with metallic-green and purple reflections ; breast light 

 vinous, becoming whitish on the middle of the abdomen ; sides, 

 flanks, and under tail-coverts pale cinnamon, the latter with lighter 

 tips ; primary-coverts and primaries cinnamon, with brown apical 

 portion ; under wing-coverts cinnamon ; tail dark olive-brown, with 

 the lateral feathers mostly cinnamon, especially towards the base ; 

 tail underneath cinnamon, with the tip brown : bill and feet pale 

 in dry skins. Total length about 11 inches, wing 6*5, tail 4, 

 bill 0-8, tarsus 1-25. 



Hob. Guadeloupe, Montserrat, Santa Lucia, and Grande Terre. 



A specimen from Guadeloupe, not fully adult, is darker above 

 and more brightly cinnamon on the primaries and outer tail- 

 feathers. 



a. $ ad. sk. Guadeloupe, W. I. (F. A. Ober). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



b. Ad. sk. Montserrat, W. I. (Sturge). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



6. Geotrygon cristata. 



? Columba sylvatica major nigro-ccerulescens, Broion, Jamaica, 



p. 468. 

 Columba cristata, Temm. # Knip (ncc Gm.), Pig. i. fam. sec. p. 20 



(excl. syn.), pi. 9 (1808-11) ; Temm. Pig. et Gallin. i. pp. 108, 



449 (1813) (syn. emend.); Steph. Gen. Zool. xi. p. 40 (1819) (syn. 



emend.) ; Desm. Diet. Sc. Nat. xl. p. 322, n. 33 (1826) (syn. 



emend.) ; Wagl. Syst. Av. Columba, sp. 14 (1827). 

 Columba pacifica, Vieill. {nee lath.) N. 1). xxvi. p. 347 (1818) ; Lath. 



Hist, of B. viii. p. 44 (part.) (1823) ; Less. Compl. de Buff., Ois. 



viii. p. 82 (1837) ; id. op. cit. 2nd ed. p. 291 (part.) (1838). 

 Peristera cristata, G. R. Gr. Gen. B. ii. p. 476, n. 14 (1845), App. 



p. 24 (1849) ; id. List B. Brit. Mus. Coluinla?, p. 56 (1856). 

 ColumbigalliDa versicolor, Lafresn. Per. Zool. 1846, p. 321 (Jamaica). 

 Geophaps versicolor, Des Murs, leonogr. Orn. pi. xlvii. (1847) ; 



Rehnb. Syn. Av. Columbaria?, Novit. t. 227. ff. 2482-83 (1851). 

 Geotrvgon sylvatica, Gosse, B. of Jam. p. 316 (1847) ; id. Illustr. B. 



of "Jam. pi. 84 (1849); id. Nat. Soj. in Jam. p. 173 (1851); 



Albrecht, J. f. 0. 1862, p. 204 ; Sclat. P. Z. S. 1865, p. 2; id ; Hill, 



Pr. Ac. Nat. Sc. Philad, 1867, p. 130; Sclat. P. Z. S. 1869, 



p. 628; id. List Vert. An. 8th ed. p. 458 (1883). 

 Peristera sylvatica, G. R. Gr. Gen. B. Index, p. Ill (1849). 

 Peristera versicolor, G. R. Gr. Gen. B. Index, p. 115 (1849). 

 Geotrvgon cristata, Rcitnb. Syn. Av. Columbaria?, Novit. t. 259. 



f. 251)9 (1851) ; id. Av. Syst. Nat. p. xxv ( L862) ; Bp. Conep. Av. 



ii. p. 70 (1854) ; id. Compt. Rend. xl. p. 220, n. 204 (1855) ; id. 



Coup d'ail Ordre Pig. pp. 34, 58, n. 204 (1855) ; id. Compt. Rend. 



xliii. p. 943(1856); G. R. Gr. Cat. B. Trop.M. p. 48(1859); 



Rchnb. Tauben, i. p. 33, t, 227. ff. 2482-83, t. 259. f. 2599 (1802) : 



