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6. Acrotarsium covered by large, broad, transverse scutella. 

 c. Tail more than two-thirds (usually nearly three-fourths) as long as wing. 

 d. Tail as long as or longer than wing. 

 e. Plumage barred with black. 

 /. Outermost primary abruptly attenuated terminally; rectrices 14, 



Geopelia (extralimital) .<» 

 ff. Outermost primary not attenuated; rectrices 12...Soardafella (p. 388). 

 ee. Plumage not barred. 



/. Outermost primary attenuated terminally Oxypelia (extralimital). & 



ff. Outermost primary not attenuated Uropelia (extralimital) . « 



dd. Tail decidedly shorter than wing. 

 e. Smaller (wing less than 102 mm.); bare orbital region separated from rictus 

 by feathering; no trace of tomial notch; mandible relatively deeper, 

 with horny tip relatively longer and lateral groove shorter. 

 /. None of the primaries with inner web lobed or toothed; orbital region 

 extensively naked, extended to rictus; wing immaculate. 



Gymnopelia (extralimital).* 



ff. Fourth primary (from outside) with inner web toothed or lobed; orbital 



region slightly naked, the bare skin not extending to rictus; wings 



with black, purplish, or brown spots. 



g. Secondaries quinto-cubital; lateral .rectrices and distal wing-coverts 



and secondaries white Columbina (extralimital). ' 



gg. Secondaries aquinto-cubital; lateral rectrices and distal wing-coverts 



and secondaries with little if any white. 



h. Bill and feet much larger, the exposed culmen longer than lateral 



toes; nasal operculum conspicuously tumid or vaulted; outermost 



primary extremely broad, longer than fourth (from outside), the 



next four with outer webs very strongly sinuated. 



Eupelia (extralimital)./ 



<* Geopelia Swainson, Classif. Birds, ii, 1837, 348; type, Columba striata Linnaeus. — 

 Geopeleia (emendation) Reichenbach, Av. Syst. Nat., 1852, p. xxv. — Tomopeleia 

 Reichenbach, Av. Syst. Nat., 1852, p. xxv; type, Columba maugeus Temminck and 

 Knip. — Tomopelia (emendation) Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av., ii, 1857, 94. — Sticto- 

 peleia Reichenbach, Av. Syst. Nat., 1852, p. xxv; type, Columba cuneata Latham. — 

 Stietopelia (emendation) Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av., ii, 1857, 95. — Erythauchoena 

 Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., xl, 1855, 210; type, Columba humeralis Temminck. — Ery- 

 thrauchaena (emendation) Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av., ii, 1857, 93. — Chrysauchoena 

 Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., xl, 1855, 210 (error for Erythrauchoena). (Burma and 

 Philippines to Australia; five species, of which only G. striata, the type, has been 

 examined in this connection.) 



6 Oxypelia Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxi, 1893, 490; type, by designation, 

 Peristera cyanopis Pelzeln. (Interior of Brazil; monotypic.) 



c Uropelia Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., xl, 1855, 24; Consp. Gen. Av., ii, 1857, 85; 

 type, by monotypy, Columbina campestris Spix. — Uropeleia (emendation) Reichen- 

 bach, Volls. Naturg. Columbariae, i, 1861, 18. (Brazil and Bolivia; monotypic.) 



I have not seen either of these genera. 



d Gymnopelia Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 156; type, by designa- 

 tion, Columba erythrothorax Meyen (not of Temminck) =Chamsepelia anais Lesson. 

 (Peru, Bolivia, and northern Chile; monotypic.) 



« Columbina Spix, Av. Bras., ii, 1825, 57; type, C. strepitans Spix=Columba pieui 

 Temminck.— Coluntbula Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., xl, 1855, 22; Consp. Gen. Av., ii, 

 1857, 80; type Columbapicui Temminck. (Southern South America; monotypic.) 



/ Eupelia Todd, Ann. Carnegie Mus., viii, nos. 3-4, May 8, 1913, 512; type, by 

 designation, Columba cruziana Prevost and Knip. (Ecuador to Bolivia and northern 

 Chile; monotypic.) 



