614 PERISTERID^. 



(1886) ; Ridgw. Man. N. Am. B. p. 217, pi. lxiv. f. 1 (1887) ; 



Cory, Auk, 1887, p. 120; id. B. W. Ind. p. 221 (1889) ; Hem. 8f 



Rchnw. Nomencl. Mus. Hein. Orn. p. 285 (1889) ; Scott, Auk, 



1892, p. 124 (Jamaica?); Cory, ibid. pp. 271, 272 (Cuba); 



Chapm. Bull. Am. Mus. N. H. iv. p. 294 (1892) (Cuba). 

 Starnaenas cyanocephala, G. B. Gr. Gen. B. ii. p. 479, n. 1 (1845). 

 Sternoenas cyanocephala, Rchnb. Syn. Av. ff. 1445-46 (1847), Novit. 



Suppl. t. 2(36. ff. 2879-81 (1851) (ex Audubon) ; id. Av. Syst. Nat. 



p. xxv (1852). 

 Perdicopelia cyanocephala, Van der Hoeven, Handb. d. Zool. ed. 2, 



ii. p. 680 (1855). 

 Geotrygon cyanocephala, Gieb. Thes. Orn. ii. p. 255 (1875). 

 Sturncenas cyanocephala, Schmidt, P. Z. S. 1880, p. 314. 



Adult male. General colour olive-brown above and dull rusty 

 beneath, the breast with a purple tinge ; the mantle and nape with 

 no olive tinge ; pileum dull blue, encircled by a black band ; a 

 broad white stripe running from chin, beneath eye, to occiput : 

 throat and chest black, bordered below by a semicircular narrow 

 band of pure white, edged with black ; the upper and lateral 

 portions of the black area tipped with blue : " bill coral-red at 

 the base, blue-grey at the tip ; legs dull reddish white, with the 

 scales bright carmine-red, those of the toes dark bluish red ; the 

 skin at the joint of the toes to the tarsus sky-blue ; iris dark 

 brown " (Gundlach). Total length 12*50-10"75 inches, wing 5-7- 

 5-4, tail 4-25-4-00, bill 0-55, tarsus 1-25. 



Hab. Cuba (and Florida Keys). 



a. Ad. st. Cuba. Purchased. 



b. Ad. sk. W. Indies (Zool. Soc. Gard.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



c. Skeleton. 



d. Skeleton. Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 e,f. Skeletons. Purchased. 



g. Skull. Dr. Giinther's Coll. 



Subfamily VII. CALCENADIN.E. 



36. CALCENAS. 



Type. 



Geophilus, Selby, Natural. Libr., Pigeons, p. 214 (1835) 



(wee Leach, 1812) C. nicobarica. 



Catenas, G. R. Gr. List Gen. B. p. 59 (1840) C. nicobarica. 



Phabalectryo, Gloger, Gem. Hand- u. Hilfs. d. Naturg. 



p. 367 (1842) C. nicobarica. 



Catenas (!), G. R. Gr. Gen. B. ii. p. 478 (1845). 

 Catena, " G. R. Gr." Agass. Nomencl. Zool., Aves, 



Add. p. 4 (1846). 

 Callioenas, Agass. Nomencl. Zool. Ind. Univ. p. 59 



(1846). 

 Callcenas, Rchnb. Av. Syst. Nat. p. xxv (1852). 



Range. Confined to the Malay Archipelago and the Pelew 

 Islands. 



