266 PEEISTERID-E. 



Ibis, "1896, p. 447 '*j Bangs, Auk, 1901, p. 358''; Pr. Xew Engl. Zool. Club, iii. 

 p. 23 •'. 

 Geotrygon ?, Scl. & Salv. P. Z. S. 1864, p. 370 ". 



Rufescens, violaceo micans ; alis caudaque dorso concoloribus ; remigibus mfis, intns et ad apicem brunnes- 

 centibus ; rectrieibus exterioribus fulvo vix terminatis, et intus subterminaliter brunnescentibns ; pileo, 

 facie lateraU et colli lateribus dorso concoloribtis et eodem modo violaceo micantibos ; corpore subtus 

 pallide vinaceo, gutture et abdomine medio albidis ; hypochondriis et subcaudalibus oehracescenti-riifis, his 

 paUidioribus ; subalaribus rofis ; axillaribus magis ochracescentibus basin versus nigris : rostro comeo, ad 

 basin cocoineo ; pedibua rubescenti-albis, scutis magis coccineis ; plaga nada oculari et palpebris coccineis ; 

 iride sordide aurantiaca. Long, tota circa 9'0, alsB o'7, candae 3'0, culm. 06, tarsi 1-2. 

 2 mari dissimilis; saturate brnnnea, olivaceo-viridi nitens; remigibus et rectrieibus fuscescenti-brunneis, 

 intus rufescentibus ; pileo postico dorso concolore ; fronte, superciliis et genis anticis castaneis ; facie 

 lateral! reliqua et colli lateribus saturate fuscis; corpore reliquo subtus sordide rufescente, gutture et 

 abdomine cum subcaudalibus albidis ; subalaribus mfis, axUlaribus ad basin nigris. Long, tota circa 8*5, 

 alae 5 7. (Descr. maris et feminse ex Choctum. Mus. nostr.) 



ffab. North Aiieeica, Key West, Florida ^^. — Mexico, Mirador (Sartorius ^^}, Vega 

 del Casadero, Vera Cruz (Trujillo ^% Cordova (Salle ^}, Jalapa (de Oca ^}, Potrero, 

 Chiquihuite (Sumichrast ^'^),Tema.x, N. Yucatan (Gaiimer^^); British Honduras, 

 Orange Walk {Blancaneaux ^^) ; Guatemala, Vera Paz ^, Choctum, Savana Grande 

 {0. S. & F.JD. G.^^); Nicaragua, La Libertad, Chinandega (Bichardson^'^); Costa 

 Rica, Angostura (Carmiol ^, Zeledon ^^), Orosi [v. Frantzius '^), Savanilla de Pirriz 

 [Underwood, in lift.), San Carlos [Boucard 9), Birris de Cartago [Zeledon "), Volcan 

 de Miravalles ( Underwood ^*) ; Panama, Divala, Boquete [Brown ^^ i^), southern 

 slopes of the Volcan de Chiriqui [Arce^'^% San Pablo Station [0. S.^^). — 

 Ecuador 13; AjiazoniaI^; Guuna^^. Brazil i^; Greater and Lessee Antilles ^^ 



Like G. alhiventer, this species has the under wing-coverts and the quill-linino-s 

 cinnamon or light chestnut, and the tail also dark cinnamon, but the abdomen is 

 rufous, like the rest of the underparts, G. montana is a forest-bird, and on the 

 mainland is nowhere abundant, though on some of the West-Indian Islands, as in 

 Cuba and Jamaica, it is more plentiful. Here it frequents the forests, feeding on 

 seeds, berries, and small slugs. Gosse describes the nest as a rude structure composed 

 of sticks and dead leaves placed on bushes at a height of from three to five feet from 

 the ground 2. The eggs are two in number, but are rather more rounded than is 

 usual with Pigeons, of a pale cream or pink-buflF colour i-. 



3. Geotrygon lawrencii. (Tab. LXIX.) 



Geotrygon veraguensis, Salv. (nee Lawr.), P. Z. S. 1867, p. 159'. 



Geotrygon lawrencii, Salv. Ibis, 1874, p. 329 ' ; Salvad. Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xxi. p. 576 '. 



Geotrygon costaricensis, Bangs, Pr. New Engl. Zool. Club, iii. p. 24 \ 



Supra sordide olivaceo-brunuea ; fronte et loris pure albis ; vertice canescente, pUeo postico cum collo postico 

 et lateraU sordide olivascente, dorso medio purpurascente ; alis olivascenti-brunneis, minoribus purpureo 

 lavatis ; remigibus nigricantibus, intus cinereis ; rectrieibus medianis dorso concoloribus, extemis nigri- 

 cantibus ad apicem cineraceis ; facie lateraU et gutture pure albis, Unea infra loraU nigra, et fascia altera 

 mystacali nigra ; praepectore et pectore toto clare cinereis ; abdomine et subcaudalibus albis, hia basaliter 



