Todd : A Revision of nn Genus Chuemepelia. 



Chatnaipeleia godina Reichenbach, rauben, [862, [6 (ex Bonap 



Chama'ipeleia cinnamomina Reichenbach, rauben, [862, 15 (Paraguay; Bolivia; 

 Rio Janeiro, Cabo Frio, and I -piritu Santo, Brazil; descr.; rcfprences; ex Wied). 



Gourd cinnamotnea Schlegel, De Dierent., [864, 208 (Guiana; Brazil; d< 3cr.). 



Chamapelia godina Pelzeln, Orn. Bras., 1870, 450 (Brazil; ex Bonaparte). — 

 I .11 1.1 1 . Thes. Orn.. I, 1S72, 634 (references). — Sclater and Salvin, Proc. ZoSl. 

 So< London, 1877, 22, in text (crit.). 



Talpacotia talpacoti Gray, Hand-List Birds, II, 1870, 240 (Brazil; Para; Bolivia)* 



Peristera talpacoti Schlegel, Mus, Pays-Bas, Columbae, IV, 1873, 136 (Cayenne and 

 Surinam, Guiana; Bolivia; Paraguay; Brazil). 



Leptopelia talpacoti Heine and Reichenow, Nom. Mus. Hein., Orn., 1886, 283 

 (Brazil). 



Columbigallina talpacoti Berlepsch, Journ. f. Orn., XXXV, 1887, 124 (Paraguay; 

 ex Azara). — Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., II, 1889, 105 (Lower Beni 

 [River?], Bolivia). — Riker and Chapman, Auk, VIII, 1891, 162 (Santarem, 

 Brazil). — Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Xat. Hist., V, 1893, 149 (Matto Grosso, 

 Brazil). — Berlepsch and Stolzmann, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1902, ii, 44 

 (La Merced and Chanchamayo, Peru). — Dubois, Syn. Avium, II, 1902, 764 

 (Guiana; Venezuela [?]; Peru; Bolivia; Brazil; Paraguay; syn.). — von Ihering, 

 Rev. Mus. Paulista, VI, 1904, 341 (Paraguay), 371 (faunal distribution). 

 — Hellmayr, Nov. Zool., XIII, 1906, 47, in text (Surinam). — Hellmayr, 

 Abhand. K. Bayer. Akad. Wiss., II Kl., XXII, 1906, 697 (crit. on Spix's type; 

 Bahia). — yon Ihering, Av<>s do Brazil, 1907, 22 (Estado de Sao Paulo; 

 Vpiranga, S. Sebastiao e San Jose do Rio Pardo, Zaboticabal, Brazil; geog. distr.). 

 — Berlepsch, Nov. Zool., XV, 1908, 295 (Cayenne). — Dabbene, An. Mus. Nac. 

 Buenos Aires, XVIII, 1910, 193 (Argentina references and distribution). 



Chamcepelia talpacoti Dalgleish, Proc. Royal Phys. Soc. Edinburgh, X, 1888-89, 

 86 (Paraguay; geog. distr.; nesting). 



Cama'epelia talpacoti yon Ihering, Annuario do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul, 1900, 

 146 (Mundo Novo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil). 



Description. — Adult male: above, including wing-coverts, tertiaries, 

 and two middle rectrices, rich vinaceous chestnut or cinnamon vinous; 

 below similar but slightly paler, fading to nearly white on the chin; 

 crown and occiput dull plumbeous, becoming much paler and some- 

 times tinged with vinous on the forehead; primary-coverts and remiges 

 deep brown or black, the latter sometimes narrowly margined exter- 

 nally with pale cinnamon; inner wing-coverts, scapulars, and tertiaries 

 marked on the outer webs with irregular spots of black or dark steel- 

 blue; axillaries and under wing-coverts black; rectrices (except middle 

 pair as aforesaid) deep brown or black, usually more or less edged and 

 tipped with cinnamon vinous, and the inner ones generally more or 

 less extensively cinnamon vinous toward the base; iris red or rosy; 

 bill dull green, dusky at tip; feet flesh-color. 



Female similar in general, but decidedly duller and paler; above 



