FAMILY COLUMBIDAE 49 



are those in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. It is possible that 

 birds from that area may prove to be separable under another name, 

 as they appear darker than a series examined from farther north be- 

 tween Costa Rica and southern Mexico. 



GEOTRYGON VERAGUENSIS Lawrence: Olive-backed 

 Quail-Dove; Paloma Verdusca 



Figure 7 



Geotrygon veraguensis Lawrence, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. New York, vol. 8, June 

 1866, p. 349. (El Mineral, northern Veraguas, Panama.) 



A dark-colored quail-dove, with a prominent white streak on the 

 side of the head. 



Description. — Length 220-240 mm. Adult male, forehead white or 

 faintly buff, changing to gray on the center of the crown, and grayish 

 purple on the occiput and nape; rest of upper surface, including wing 

 coverts, secondaries, and tail olive-brown, glossed with dull green ; 

 primaries dusky ; a prominent white stripe from the rictus underneath 

 the eye to the back of the head ; throat white to buffy white, washed 

 with brown posteriorly ; foreneck, sides of neck, and chest brownish 

 gray, glossed with dark bronze-green, the chest color merging with the 

 brownish gray of breast and sides ; abdomen white, more or less tinged 

 with buff, flanks and under tail coverts cinnamon-buff ; under wing 

 coverts, and under side of primaries at base cinnamon. 



Adult female, similar but decidedly darker; forehead buff; flanks 

 and under tail coverts darker brown. 



Juvenile, forehead grayish brown, with a few dull cinnamon 

 feathers ; light stripe on side of head reduced to a narrow line, with the 

 darker stripe below dull cinnamon-brown; upper surface olive, with 

 tips and edgings of rufous, that are especially marked on the wing 

 coverts ; throat white, changing below to light cinnamon ; chest cinna- 

 mon-rufous, changing to pale cinnamon on breast, and dull pale cinna- 

 mon-buff on abdomen ; under tail coverts cinnamon. 



A male, taken February 18, 1961, on the upper Rio Boqueron, had 

 the iris Marguerite yellow ; edge of eyelid, bare lores, and bare space 

 around eye dull red ; bill and cere black ; anterior face of tarsus and 

 the toes dull red ; back of tarsus flesh color ; claws dark neutral gray, 

 faintly paler at the extreme tip. 



A female, collected March 5, 1963, at Armila, San Bias, had the 

 iris yellowish white ; the bare areas on the side of the head wine red ; 

 bill and cere black ; entire tarsus and toes light red ; claws fuscous- 

 brown. 



