Plate LXII. 



GEOTRTGON CHIRIQUENSI8. 



(CHIEIQUIM GEOMD-PIGEON). 



Oeotrygon cTiiriquenais . . . Sclater, P.Z.S. 1856, p. 143. 



... Salviu, P.Z.S. 1867, pp. 130, 159. 



Supra saturate castaneo-brunneus,iuterscapulio purpurascente tincto: pileo toto schistaceo, frontem versus dilutiore: 

 faciei lateribus albicantibus, a gula alba linea irregulari nigra divisis : subtiis cinnamomeus, pectore toto et lateribus 

 cum tectricibus subalaribus castaneis : remigibus alarum schistacescenti-nigris ; cauda • supra fere concolore, subtus 

 uigricaute, cinnamomeo terminata : roatro nigro, mandibulee basi et pedibus rubris : long, tota 11"5, alse 60, caudse 4'0, 

 tarsi 16. 



Sab. in Veragua (Bridges et Arce). •"> 



Since preparing our article upon tlie Ground-pigeon, figured in Plate XXXIX of this work 

 as Geotrygon cMriquensis^ we have received in one of Arch's collections from Veragua, the bird 

 we now figure under the same name, which is without any doubt the rightful owner of the 

 appellation, while the former ought to be called Geotrygon alhifacies. So soon as we saw the 

 present bird we suspected that a fresh mistake had been added to the long list of errors 

 connected with the White- faced Ground-pigeon of Mexico and Guatemala, in regarding it as 

 identical with Geotrygon chiriqiiensis. For it was obvious at first sight that the bird just anived 

 from Veragua was quite distinct, and it was hardly pi'obable that the two allies would occur in 

 the same country. Our suspicion was converted into certainty, when, on a recent visit to Paris, 

 we had the satisfaction of finding the original type of Sclater's description of Geotrygon 

 chiriqiiensis, which was formerly in the collection of the late Prince Bonaparte, but has lately 

 been transferred to the Gallery of the Jardin des Plantes. 



It remains, therefore, only to ask pardon for our error, and as some atonement for it to 

 present our readers with a figure and description of the true Geotrygon chiriqiiensis.^ taken fi-om 

 Arce's specimen, which is now in Messrs. Salvin and Godman's collection. At the same time 

 we request them to alter the title of Plate XXXIX to Geotrygon alhifacies. 



The original specimen of Sclater's Geoti-ygon fkiriquensis was obtained by the late Mr, 

 Bridges in 1856 near David in Southern Veragua. Arch's skins were collected at Castillo and 

 Calovevora in the northern slope of the same country, but rather more to the eastward. We 

 are not aware that the species has been met with by other collectors. 



Geotrygon chiriquensis is easily distinguished from G. alhifacies by the uniform slaty colour 

 of the top of the head and nape, the latter in G. alhifacies being purplish like the back ; 



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