' ss 7 -1 Cory on the Birds of the West Indies. Ill 



Gundl. Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, I, p. 298 (1S66) ; id. J. f. O. 1S74. 

 pp. 2S6. 312; id. Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. VII. p. 343 (1S7S). 



Sp. Char. Male: — Head, neck, underparts. and some of the wing-coverts 

 dull purple ; rest of plumage slaty ; edges of outer webs of some ot 

 the wing-coverts white, distinctly marking the wings; chin dull 

 white. 



The sexes are similar. 



Length, 14.50; wing, S.50; tail, 5.50; tarsus, 1.10. 

 Habitat. Greater Antilles. 



Genus Engyptila Sundev. 



Engyptila Sundevall, Stockholm Acad. Handl. 1835. 



Engyptila jamaicensis (Linn.). 



Columba jamaicensis I^vsts. Syst. Nat.T, p. 2S3 (1766). — Gmel. Syst. Nat. 



I, p. 782 (1788). — Temm. Hist. Gen. Pigeons, p. 495 (1S13-15). 

 Colnmba frontalis Temm. Hist. Gen. Pigeons (1813-15). 

 Goura jamaicensis Shaw, Gen. Zool. XI. p. 126 (1819). 

 Per istera jamaicensis GossE, Bds. Jam. p. 313 (1847). — Albrecht. ]. f. O. 



1S62. p. 204. 

 Lcptoptila jamaicensis SLOANE, Jam. pi. 262. — Bp. Icon. Pig. t. 119: ib. 



Consp. II, p. 73 (1864). — March, Pr. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1863, p. 



302. — Gray, Handl. Bds. II. p. 242 (1870). — Scl. & Salv. Nom. 



Avium Neotr. p. 133 (1873). 

 Engyptila jamaicensis A. & E. Newton. Handb. Jamaica, p. 114 (1881). — 



Cory. List Bds. W. I. p. 23 (1S85). 



Sp. Char. Male .—Forehead dull white, shading into slaty gray on the 

 top of the head ; a cape of metallic purple, blue and gray, when 

 held in the light; rest of upper surface olive; throat dull white, 

 becoming slaty on the underparts; flanks and belly dull white; 

 under surface of wings bright rufous ; tail feathers slaty, tipped with 

 white, except the two central ones, which are pale brown ; primaries 

 pale brown. 



Length (skin), 10; wing. 6: tail, 4.25; tarsus. 1; bill .75. 

 Habitat. Jamaica. 



Engyptila wellsi Lawk. 



Engyptila wellsi Lawr. Auk. I. No 2, p. 1S0 (18S4). — Cory, List Bds. 

 W. I. p. 23 (1885); ib. Revised List (1SS6).— Wells, List Bds. 

 Grenada, p. 7 (18S6). 



Sp. Char. Female: — "The front is whitish, with a slight tinge of fawn 

 color on the anterior portion, and is of a bluish cast on the posterior; 



