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Chloroenas nigrirostris La whence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., ix, 1868, 135 (Costa Rica). — 

 Fkantzius, Journ. fiir Orn., 1869, 371 (Costa Rica).— Salvin, Ibis, 1874, 

 455, in text (Guatemala). — Zeled6n, Cat. Aves de Costa Rica, 1882, 28. 



Columba nigrirostris brunneicauda Carriker, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vi, Sept. 7, 

 1910, 395 (Guapiles, Costa Rica; coll. Carnegie Mus.). 



(ENCENAS PDRPUREOTINCTA (Ridgway). 

 PUBPLE-TINTED PIGEON. 



Adult male. — Pileum and hindneck deep purple-drab to dark 

 vinaceous-drab, tbe sides of bead and neck, together with foreneck 

 and cbest, similar but slightly lighter (purple-drab, sometimes tinged 

 with deep or dark vinaceous-gray), passing on chin and upper throat 

 into buffy pale vinaceous-drab, becoming slightly paler and more gray- 

 ish posteriorly; back, scapulars, rump, upper tail-coverts, and wings 

 plain dark olive-brown or clove brown (sometimes tinged with bister), 

 the tail slightly darker and more bronzy or purplish brown, the pri- 

 maries (especially distal portion of longer quills) narrowly edged with 

 paler; axillars and under wing-coverts nearly similar in color to under 

 parts, but more or less tinged with cinnamon; under surface (inner 

 webs) of remiges dull wood brown passing into grayish brown distally ; 

 bill black; iris heliotrope purple;" eyelids burnt carmine;" legs and 

 feet dark rose-purple or reddish rose-purple;" length (skins), 255-265 

 (258); wing, 146.5-149.5 (148.4); tail, 111-116 (113.2); exposed 

 culmen, 11-11.5 (11.4); tarsus, 20-21.5 (20.6) ; middle toe, 21-23.5 

 (22.5). 6 



French Guiana (Cayenne) ; c Dutch Guiana (Carimang River); 

 British Guiana (Demerara; Demerara River; Tumatumari, Potero 

 River; Bartica Grove; Camacusa; Roraima; Ourumle) and Venezuela 

 (Maipures; Rio Yuruan); island of Curacao ?; d eastern Ecuador;" 

 upper Amazons ; e northeastern Brazil (Rio Capim) ? 



(?) C[olumba] cayennensis Bonnaterre, Tabl. Enc. M6th., i, 1790, 234 (Cayenne; 

 based on Holandre, Abrege' d'Hist. Nat., ii, 214)./ 



Columba vinacea (not of Gmelin, 1789)ff Temminck, Les Pigeons, i, fam. 

 seconde, 1808-11, 87, pi. 41 (French. Guiana); Hist. Nat. Pig. et Gallin., i, 

 1813, 303 (French Guiana).— Stephens, Shaw's Gen. Zool., xi, part i, 1819, 

 84 (Guiana). — Salvin, Ibis', 1886, 173 (Roraima, Bartica Grove, and Camacusa, 

 Brit. Guiana). — (?) Goeldi, Ibis, 1903, 499 (Rio Capim, n. e. Brazil). 



a Four specimens; one of them (the type) not sexed, but the largest and brightest 

 colored of all, and therefore almost certainly a male. 



& According to George K. Cherrie (Hartert, Novit. Zool., ix, 1902, 117). 



<= According to Count von Berlepsch. 



& Count von Berlepsch records "Columba plumbea" from Curacao, which probably 

 is this species. 



« According to Hartert. 



/This is undoubtedly one of the forms of this group, but which particular one it is 

 impossible to decide from the description. 



9= Turtur vinaceus (Gmelin) Gray. 



