30. 6E0TETG0N. 581 



a. $ ad. sk. Santa Elena, Antioquia, U.S.C. Salvin-Godnian Coll 



(T. K. Salmon). 



b. Ad. sk. New Granada. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



c. d. Ad. st. New Granada. Purchased. 



e,f. Ad. etjuv. Bogota. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



sk. 

 g. Ad. sk. Anolaima, W. slope of E. Cor- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



dillera, 5000 feet (T. H. 

 Wheeler), 

 h. Ad. sk. Colombia. Purchased. 



16. Geotrygon venezuelensis. 



Peristera frenata, Jard. (nee Tschudi) Ann. fy Mag. N. H. xx. 



p. 374 (Tobago) (1847). 

 Geotrygon linearis, Sclat. fy Salv. (nee Prev.) P. Z. S. 1870, p. 782 



(Merida) ; ? Hein. ty Rchnw. Nomencl. 31us. Hein. Orn. p. 285 



(1889) (Porto Cabello). 

 Geotrvgon frenata, Tristr. (nee Tschudi) Cat. Coll. B. p. 40 (Tobago) 



(1889). 



Adult male. Similar to G. linearis, but the grey of the occiput 

 confined to the sides, and not extended to the middle part, which 

 is purple vinous: "iris brown-yellow" (Goering). Total length 

 about 11 inches, wing 6, tail 4, bill 0*G, tarsus 1*5. 



Hah. Venezuela. 



A specimen from Tobago, not quite adult, in Canon Tristram's 

 Collection, seems to belong to the present species, although it has a 

 distinct greenish lustre on the hind neck, wanting in the Venezuela 

 bird. 



a. $ ad. sk. Merida, Venezuela (A. Goering). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(Type of species.) 



17. Geotrygon albifacies. 



Peristera niexicana, G. R. Gr. Lid Gallinre Brit. Mas. p. 15 (1844). 

 Peristera albifacies, G. R. Gr. List B. Brit. Mas. Coluinbas, p. 55 



(1856). 

 Geotrygon caniceps, part., Bp. Compt. Rind, xliii. pp. 943, 949 (1856). 

 Geotrvgon chiriquensis, Bp. (nee Sclat.) Compt. Rend, xliii. pp. 943 



(Jalapa), 949 (1856) ; Sclat. P. Z. S. 1857, p. 206 ; Sclat. $ Salv. 



Exot. Orn. p. 77, pi. xxxix. (1867). 

 Geotrvgon albifacies, Sclat. P. Z. S. 1858, p. 98 (Jalapa), 1859, 



pp. '368, 391; Salv. §• Sclat. Ibis, 1860, p. 401 (Guatemala); 



Rchnh. Tauben, ii. p. 165 (1862) ; Sclat. § Salv. Exot. Orn. pp. 12:3, 



124 (1868) ; Ed. Ibis, 1869, p. 110 ; Salv. Ibis, 1870, p. 114; G. R. 



Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 243, n. 9396 (1870) ; Sousa, Mus. Nac. Lisb. 



Columbre, p. 19 (1873); Sclat. \ S-dr. Xomencl. Av. Neotrop. 



p. 134, n. 8 (1873); Gieb. The*. Orn. ii. p. 254 (1875); Sumichr. 



Naturaleza, v. p. 232, a. 35 (1881); Ridgw. Man. X. Am. B. 



p. 217 (1887) ; Hein. S[ Rchnw. Nomencl. Mas. Hein. Orn. p. 285 



(1889) ; Salv. Ibis, 1892, p. 328 (Nicaragua). 

 Starncenas albifacies, Sehleg. Mas. P.-B. Columba?, p. 164 (1873). 



Adult. Forehead whitish, changing into grey on the vertex and 



