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Cory, List B. W. Ltd. p. 24 (1885); id. Auk, 1887, p. 118; id. 

 B. W. Ind. p. 219 (1889). 

 Oreopeleia caniceps, Itchnb. Tauben, i. p. 32 (1802), ii. p. 165, Novit. 

 t. i. f. 7 (1862). 



Adult. Forehead greyish white, gradually changing into dark 

 grey on the vertex and occiput ; neck dark grey, with green and 

 violet reflections ; hack metallic violet, changing into dark blue 

 with purple reflections on the rump and shorter upper tail-coverts ; 

 the longer ones greyish black with blue-green reflections ; throat 

 whitish ; breast grey ; middle of the abdomen reddish white ; sides, 

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

 tips ; wings brown-grey, the wing-coverts with olive-greenish or 

 purplish reflections in certain lights ; quills greyish brown, with 

 the base of the inner webs cinnamon ; the primaries have a narrow 

 cinnamon edge on the outer webs ; tail greyish black : " bill horn- 

 colour, with the basal part dark carmine ; feet dirty reddish white ; 

 naked skin round the eyes grey, only the edge of the eyelids 

 reddish grey; iris vermilion" (Gundlach). Total length 10*5 to 

 11-3 inches, wing 6, tail 3, bill 0*56, tarsus 1*26. 



Female. Like the male. 



Hab. Cuba. 



a. Ad. sk. San Cristobal, Cuba. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



8. Geotrygon veraguensis. 



rieotrygon veraguensis, Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. viii. p. 349 (1866) 

 (Veragua) (tvpe examined) ; Sclat. fy Salv. Exot. Orn, p. 78 (1867) ; 

 Salv. Ibis, 1869, p. 317; G. B. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 243, n. 9401 

 (1870); Salv. Ibis, 1874, p. 328, pi. xii. (Mineral de Veraguas, 

 to the S.E. of the Chiriqui Lagoon) ; Gieb. Thes. Orn. ii. p. 256 

 (1875). 



Ueotrygonrufiventris, Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. xi. p. 90 (1874) (Costa 

 Rica) ; Boicley, Orn. Misc. hi. p. 77, pi. xciii. (part, xii., 1878). 



Adult. Forehead and upper part of the cheeks white ; two black 

 lines border the white cheeks above and below ; vertex grey, 

 changing into dull violet-purple with golden reflections on the 

 occiput, hind neck, upper part of back, and also on the lower part 

 of the cheeks, sides of the neck, and upper breast ; throat white, 

 with the edges of the feathers more or less tinged with rufous 

 brown ; lower part of the breast purplish brown ; abdomen, vent, 

 and flanks brownish rufous ; middle of the abdomen whitish with a 

 rufous tinge ; under tail-coverts brown on the hidden bases, rufous 

 at the tip ; lower back, rump, upper tail-coverts, and wings dark 

 olive, with a golden lustre ; primaries brownish slate-colour; under 

 wing-coverts cinnamon, bases of the inner webs of the quills pale 

 cinnamon ; central tail-feathers dark grey-olive, the lateral ones 

 dark grey, with the tips light greyish and a sublerminal broad 

 band nearly obsolete black : bill black ; feet in the dried specimens 



