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greenish bronze to purplish bronze; flanks and under tail-coverts 

 chestnut, the anal region and, lower abdomen similar but paler; 

 axillars and under wing-coverts rufous-chestnut or deep cinnamon- 

 rufous; bill blackish; iris blood-red ; a bare orbital space gray, the 

 edge of eyelids scarlet; legs and feet pale flesh color, the front of 

 tarsus and top of toes pink;° length (skins), 268-311 (289); wing, 

 159-167.5 (162.3); tail, 85-103 (92.7); exposed culmen, 20-21.5 (20.9); 

 tarsus, 34-37.5 (35.5); middle toe, 25-29.5 (26.6).* 



Adult female.— Similar to the adult male and not always distin- 

 guishable, but usually (?) with posterior under parts paler (dull 

 buffy cinnamon rather than chestnut), the under tail-coverts some- 

 times passing into pale pinkish buff on margins, smaller wing-coverts 

 with more or less of deep grayish brown or olive intermixed with the 

 purple and chestnut, the larger wing-coverts and secondaries deep 

 grayish brown or olive, slightly glossed; length (skins), 266-298 

 (282); wing, 147-167 (156.2); tail, 82-98 (90.2); exposed culmen, 

 19.5-22.5 (20.5); tarsus, 34-36 (34.9); middle toe, 25.5-27.5 (26.6)." 

 Jamaica (Spanishtown; Moneague; Cuna Cuna; near Bath; Port- 

 land; Priestmans Kiver; St. Anns). 



Columba cristata (not of Gmelin, 1789)* Temminck, Les Pigeons, i, fam. seconde, 

 1808-1811, 20, excl. syn., pi. 9 ("ilesdes Amis, dans la mer del Sud").— 

 Temminck, Hist. Nat. Pig. et Gallin., i, 1813, 108.— Stephens, Shaw's 

 Gen. Zool., xi, 1819, 40. 

 C[olumba] cristata Temminck, Hist. Nat. Pig. et Gallin., i, 1813, 449. 

 C[olumba] cristata Wagler, Syst. Av., 1827, Columba, sp. 14. 

 P[eristera] cristata Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1845, 476, Appendix, p. 24. 

 Peristera cristata Gray, List Birds Brit. Mus., Columbse, 1856, 56. 

 G[eotrygon] cristata Reichenbach, Syn. Av., Columbariae, 1851, pi. 259, fig. 2599; 

 Av. Syst. Nat., 1852, p. xxv; Vollst. Naturg., Columbariae, i, 1861, 33, pi. 227, 

 figs. 2482, 2483, pi. 259, fig. 2599. 

 Geotrygon cristata March, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci., Phila., 1863, 300.— Salvtn, Ibis, 

 1878, 448; Cat. Strickland Coll., 1882, 551— Cory, Auk, iv, 1887, 116 (syn- 

 onymy; descr.): Birds West Ind., 1889, 218; Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 

 10, 97, 129.— Scott, Auk, ix, 1892, 125 (habits).— Salvadori, Cat. Birds 

 Brit. Mus., xxi, 1893, 573 (St. Anns and Spanishtown, Jamaica). — Sclater, 

 Revised List Birds Jam., 1910, 19. 

 [Geotrygon] cristata Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., xl, 1855, 220; xliii, 1856, 943; Coup 

 d'CEil Ordre Pig., 1855, 34, 58; Consp. Av., ii, 1857, 70.— Gray, Hand-list, 

 ii, 1870, 243, no. 9391.— Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 134.— 

 Cory, List Birds West Ind., rev. ed., 1886, 24. — Forbes and Robinson, 

 Bull. Liverp. Mus., ii, 1900, 146. 

 Starnoenas cristata Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, iv, no. 35 (Columbae), 1873, 164. 

 Columba pacifica (not of Gmelin, 1789) « Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., xxvi, 

 1818, 347 (lies des Amis).— Latham, Gen. Hist. Birds, viii, 1823, 44, part — 

 Lesson, Compl. Buffon, Ois., viii, 1837, 82; 2d ed., 1838, 291, part. 

 Columbigallina versicolor Lafresnaye, Rev. Zool., 1846, 321 (Jamaica; coll. 

 Paris Mus.). 



o Gosse, Birds of Jamaica, p. 316, footnote. &=Rollulus roulroul (Perdicidse). 



& Ten specimens. '=Globicera pacifica (Gmelin) Bonaparte. 



c Six specimens. 



