38 BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



The male bird described was collected on tbe Mazaruni River. 



Breeding-season. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Nest. ''The nest is like other Pigeons ^^ (Schomhurgk). 



l^ggs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Range. Ituribisi River, Bartica, Kamakabra River, Bonasika 

 River, Mazaruni River, Great Falls, Demerara River {McConnell 

 collectio/i) ; Kamakusa, Mount Roraima {W'lntely). 



Extralimital Bangs. Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil. 



Habits. Schomburgk states that (Reis. Guian. iii. p. 743) he met 

 with this Pigeon more commonly in the woods near the coast than 

 tliose inland. Only during the breeding-season is it found in 

 pairs; afterwards it lives in large flocks. He did not often see it 

 on the ground, and concludes, therefore, that it feeds chiefly on 

 fruit and seeds. The nest is like that of other pigeons. The fli sh 

 is good. It is very shy and difficult to obtuin. 



21. Columba rufina. 



Rurous Pigeon. 



Columha rufina Temm. & Knip, Pig. p. 59, pi. 2^, 1808-1811 (French 

 Guiana); Cab. in Schomb. lieis. Guian. iii. p. 743, 1848 ; Salvin, 

 Ibis, 188G, p. 173 (Eoraima, 3500 ft., Bartica Grove) ; Quelch, 

 Timehri (2) ii. p. 363, 1888; (2) v. p. 107, 1891; Salvad. Cat. B. 

 Brit. Mus. xxi. p. 287, 1 893 ; Brabom-ne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. 

 p. 15, no. 152, 1912. 



Adult male. Head, upper back, upper wing-coverts, and breast 

 vinous with an amethystine tinge brighter on the wings and duller 

 on the breast, showing a coppery reflection on the nape ; lower back, 

 rump, and upper tail-coverts slate-colour ; tail lead -grey at the 

 base, earth-brown at the tip ; edge of wing and outer greater 

 wing-coverts lead-grej^ ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills 

 brown with pale outer edges ; cheeks and throat grey ; chin 

 whitish ; abdomen, under tail-coverts, flanks, axillarics, and under 

 wing-coverts grey, somewhat darker on the last. " Iris red ; bill 

 blackish ; feet dark red." 



Total length 305 mm., culmen 20, wing 187, tail 105, tarsus 27. 



The bird described was obtained at Mount Roraima in 1808. 



Adult female. Differs from the adult male in being less bright on 

 the upper surface, having the scapulars and greater upper wing- 

 coverts earth-brown, and slightly smaller in size. Wing 170 nun. 



Breeding-season. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Sest. " Like that of other Pigeons " (Schomburgk). 



liggs. " Like those of other Pigeons'' {Scltombvrgk) . 



