62 BIRDS OF THE REPUBLIC OF PANAMA PART 2 



Bridges in an expedition, mainly for the collection of orchids, during 

 which he had his headquarters at David, Chiriqui." Sclater gave no 

 definite type locality, but from the statement just quoted this has been 

 cited as David (near sea level), an error, as the bird is one of the 

 Subtropical Zone. Sclater continues in his account, saying that 

 Bridges' specimens "were principally collected near the town on the 

 banks of the river, or between that and the 'Boqueti' — an elevated 

 savannah of about 4,000 feet above sea-level, lying on the western slope 

 of the volcano of Chiriqui." It is obvious that the type of this pigeon, 

 a species of the Subtropical Zone, was collected in the highlands near 

 Boquete. I have so designated the type locality in the citation at the 

 head of this account. 



The other supposed lowland record at Calobre, Veraguas, based on 

 Arce's specimens must refer to the hill country back of that settlement. 



Ridgway in his survey of the pigeons of tropical America restricted 

 the genus Geotrygon to a single species, G. versicolor (Lafresnaye) 

 of Jamaica, and placed the numerous related quail-doves under the 

 name Oreopeleia Reichenbach. His treatment of the group has been 

 accepted in most subsequent publications. On examination of the 

 characters for this action with much more extensive material the only 

 significant structural character that is not duplicated in the two groups 

 is found in the somewhat elongated feathers on the forehead of 

 versicolor. This alone seems too slight a basis for generic separation, 

 so that all should be united in the genus Geotrygon. 



