44 BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



Adult male. Entire back, from the mantle to the upper tail- 

 coverts, earth-brown like the scapulars and upper wing-coverts, tlie 

 scapulars having elongated violet spots on the outer webs ; bastard- 

 wing dark brown ; primary-coverts and quills black'sh with chestnut 

 bases to the former and the inner webs of the latter, the chestnut 

 being more restricted on the secondary quills ; the innermost 

 secondaries like the back ; tail grey with a broad subterminnl 

 black band ; head grey ; throat, breast, and sides of body dull 

 vinous, white on the middle of the abdomen, and dark grey, \Nith 

 wdiite edges, on the under tail-coverts ; axillaries, under wing- 

 coverts, and quill-lining bright chestnut. 



Total length 137 mm., culmen 12, wing 75, tail 45, tarsus 14. 



Adult female. Differs from the adult male in being slightly 

 sma41er in size and paler in colour below. Wing 73 mm. 



The birds descrilied were collected on the Al^ar^- River. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



Xest. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Eggs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Range in British Guiana. Upper Takutu Mountains, Abary 

 Hiver [McConnell collection) ; Mount Roraima, Yuruani ]{iver, 

 Annai, Quonga {Wldtehj) ; Georgetown (Quelch). 



Extralimital Range. Venezuela, Colombia, Brazil. 



Mr. J. J. Quelch (Timehri (2) v. p. 106) states that he had 

 observed this species at Georgetown. 



Habits. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



27. Columbina talpacoti. 

 Talpacoti Ground-Dove. 



Cuhimhiiia talpacoti (Temm. & Knip), Pig. i. fam. 3, p. 22, pi. xii., 



1808-11 (Brazil) ; Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Anier. i. p. 18, 



no. 179, 1912. 

 Ohamapelia tcdpacoti Cab. in Schomb. Reis. Guian. ili. p. 744, 1848 ; 



Salvad. Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxi. p. 485, 1893 (Quonga, Annai) ; 



C. A. Lloyd, Timehri (2) xi. p. 4, 1897. 



Adult male. General colour above and below deep vinous, 

 somewhat paler on the under surface ; crown of head and nape 

 grey, being somewhat paler on the forehead ; with black marks 

 on the outer webs of the scapulars and some of the lesser upper 

 wing-coverts : bast^uil-wing, primary-coverts, and quills d;irk 



