464 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



LEPTOTILA BATTYI Rothschild. 



BATTY' S DOVE. 



Adults (sexes alike).— Pileum and nape plain slate-gray, fading into 

 pale gray (gull gray) on anterior portion of forehead, and passing on 

 hindneck into more brownish gray; rest of upper parts plain deep cin- 

 namon-brown or brussels brown to auburn, the alulae, primary coverts, 

 and primaries dusky grayish brown, the last narrowly edged distally 

 with paler; middle rectrices concolor with back, etc., the others 

 brown basally, brownish black subterminally or terminally, the two 

 or three outermost tipped with brownish white, both the terminal 

 white and subterminal black increasing in width toward the outer- 

 most rectrix; malar, suborbital, and auricular regions, and sides of 

 throat pale brownish drab or vinaceous-drab to dull vinaceous-gray, 

 passing into slate-gray on sides of neck, this passing into pale brown- 

 ish drab on median portion of foreneck, the chest more pinkish 

 (pinkish ecru-drab), becoming paler and more pinkish or buffy pink- 

 ish on breast; abdomen and anal region buffy white; flanks mixed 

 pale buffy brown and pale pinkish buff; axillars and under wing- 

 coverts russet or light chestnut; bill black; iris light yellow or green- 

 ish yellow; legs and feet pale brownish (red in life?). 



Adult male. — Length (skin), 253; wing, 135; tail, 83.5; exposed 

 culmen, 18; tarsus, 33; middle toe, 26.° 



Adult female. — Length (skin), 240; wing, 132; tail 85; exposed 

 culmen, 15; tarsus, 30.5; middle toe, 24.° 



Coiba Island, western Panama (Pacific side) . 



Leptoptila battyi Rothschild, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, xii, no. lxxxiv, Dec. 30, 

 1901, 33 (Coiba Island, Panama; coll. Tring Mus.). — Salvin and Godman, 

 Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, iii, 1902, 264 (Coiba Island). 



Genus GEOTRYGON Gosse. 



Geotrygon Gosse, Birds Jamaica, 1847, 316, footnote. (Type, by monotypy, 

 G. sylvatica Gosse= Columbigallina versicolor Lafresnaye.) 



Medium-sized terrestrial Pigeons (length about 265-310 mm.) with 

 acrotarsium scutellate; bill stout, its length (from frontal feathering) 

 equal to length of first two phalanges of middle toe; and with feathers 

 of pileum elongated, those of forehead slightly stiffened, hairlike, 

 those of frontal antia forming a double point (on each side of meso- 

 rhinium). 



Bill stout, the exposed culmen about as long as first two phalanges 

 of middle toe, or lateral toe (without claw), both culmen and gonys 

 strongly arched. Wing very concave beneath, much rounded, the 

 longest primaries exceeding distal secondaries by a little more than 

 length of tarsus; third and fourth primaries (from outside) longest, 



a One specimen. 



