336 CHARADRUFORMES CHAP. 
Islands has a greenish-grey head and brownish upper surface, 
with brilliant violet-purple on the wings and a vinous breast, 
while the female differs in being olive-brown, with the head and 
breast dull cinnamon. P. kubaryi of the Caroline group is almost 
entirely violet-purple above, the head being grey, the forehead, 
sides of the neck, throat, and breast white. Geotrygon with some 
dozen and a half species extends from South Mexico to Paraguay, 
several of them being peculiar to the West Indies. G. montana, 
the “ Mountain-Partridge,” ranges from Key West and Cuba to 
Paraguay. It has a purplish-rufous upper surface, while the lower 
parts are whitish-fawn colour, with a purplish breast. The female 
is olive with a tinge of gold above, and chiefly buff below, with 
browner breast. G. chrysia of Haiti, Cuba, the Bahamas, and 
the Florida Keys has reddish-brown upper parts, with reflexions 
of brilhant purple, green, and gold, and vinaceous-white lower 
parts. G. violacea of Central America and Brazil, G. cristata, the 
“ Mountain-Witch,” of Jamaica, G. linearis of Colombia, and other 
species, bear a general resemblance to the above. These birds 
frequent thickly-wooded ‘districts or mountainous tracts, where 
they feed upon the ground on seeds, fallen berries, snails, and 
slugs. They often have recourse to running, yet the flight is 
rapid and whirring; the note is a moaning coo, the nest a slight 
structure on bushes, trees, or even the ground. Osculatia pur- 
purea and O. sapphirina are two beautiful Ecuadorian Pigeons, 
of which the former has a rich purple crown and occiput, a 
purplish-violet mantle with duller wings, a violet rump, a 
bronzy-green hind-neck, a white forehead, throat, and abdomen, 
a greyish breast, and white cheeks with a black transverse stripe 
below. The latter has the crown grey, the occiput golden-green. 
Leptoptila (Engyptila of some authors), distributed from Texas 
to Argentina, contains about seventeen somewhat similar forms, 
which have olive-brown upper parts, with red, green, and dove- 
coloured reflexions, and usually pinkish-white or greyish under 
parts. The wing-quills almost invariably shew some cinnamon 
on their inner webs, while in LZ. rujinucha the region of the 
nape is rufous. The White-bellied Pigeon of Jamaica (J. 
jamaicensis) 18 av unsuspicious bird which habitually lives on 
the ground in woods, eats seeds and fruits, runs, walks, or flies 
for short distances, and sometimes uses straw instead of sticks 
for its nest. The genus Haplopelia is restricted to the Ethiopian 
