Ilo Cory on the Birds of the West Indies. [April 



Sp. Char. — Forehead brownish, shading into green on the top of the 

 head; sides of the neck and upper back bright metallic green, 

 becoming bright purple with bluish reflections on reaching the 

 back; stripe of white on the cheeks, passing from the lower man- 

 dible; rest of upper parts dark olive green : upper portion of throat 

 dull white : becoming brown with greenish reflections on the breast ; 

 underparts dull purplish white, becoming didl white on the belly; 

 under tail-coverts chestnut brown, tipped with white; primaries 

 deep rufous chestnut, olive at tips; tail-feathers, except the two 

 central ones, chestnut, shading to dull olive at the tip. 

 Length, u: wing. 6.50; tail, 5 ; tarsus. 1.25; bill, .70. 



Habitat. Guadeloupe. Santa Lucia, and Grand Terre. 

 Geotrygon caniceps Gundl. 



Columba caniceps Gundl. Journ. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. VI, p. 315 ( 1852). 



Geotrygon caniceps Gundl. J. f. O. 1S56, p. no. — Brewer. Pr. Bost. Soc. 

 Nat. Hist. VII, p. 307 (i860).— Gindi.. Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, 

 I, p. 300 (1S66) ; id. J. f. O. 1S74. p. 295. — Scl. & Salv. Norn. 

 Avium Neotr. p. 134 (1873). —Cory. List Bds. W. I. p. 24 (1885). 



Sp. Char. Male: — Forehead whitish, shading into slate color on the top 

 of the head ; the feathers of the nape showing greenish and purple 

 reflections when held in the light; back purple; rump steel blue, 

 showing greenish reflections in tin.' light: throat pale, becoming 

 slaty on the breast, with slight reflections in the light: underparts 

 pale slate color, showing rufous on the abdomen, and deep rufous 

 brown on the crissum ; under surface of wing reddish brown : pri- 

 maries olive brown, showing rufous brown on the inner webs. 

 The sexes are similar. 



Length (skin), 10.50; wing, 6; tail, 3.50: tarsus. 1.20. 

 Habitat. Cuba. 



Geotrygon montana (Linn.). 



Columba montana Linn. Syst. Nat. I. p. 2S1 (1766). — Gmel. Syst. Nat. I, 



p. 772 (178S).— Sundev. Oefv. K. Vet. Akad. For. 1869. p. 601. 

 Peristera montana Gray. Gen. Bds. II. p. 475 (1844-49). 

 Geotrygon montana Gosse, Bds. Jam. p. 320 (1847). — Bp. Consp. II. p. 72 



(1854).— Cab. J. f. O. 1S56. p. 109.— Salle. P. Z. S. 1S57. P- -3S-— 



Brewer. Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. VII. p. 307 (i860).— Scl. P. Z. S. 



1861, p. 80. — Albrecht. J. f. O. 1S62. p. 204.— March. Pr. Acad. 



Nat. Sci. Phila. 1863, p. 300. — Taylor, Ibis, 1864, p. 171. — Gundl. 



J. f. O. 1874, p. 294; ib. Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. VII. p. 348 (1878). 



— Lawr. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. I, p. 487 (1S7S).— Lister, Ibis, 1S80, p. 



43.— Allen, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, V. p. 169 (1SS0).— A. & E. 



Newton, Handb. Jamaica, p. 114 (1881). — Cory, Bds. Haiti i: San 



