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0[reopeleia\ montana Reichenbach, Vollst. Naturg., Columbariae, i, 1861, 31, pi. 



266, figs. 2882, 2883 (Jamaica; Cuba; Key West; localities in Brazil); ii, 



1862, 165.— Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, iii, 



1874, 393. 

 [Oreopeleia] montana Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 242, no. 9374. 

 Oreopelia montana Burmeister, Syst. Ueb. Th. Bras., iii, 1856, 306.— Cabanis, 



Journ. fur Orn., 1874, 230 (Brazil). 

 [Oropelia] montana Heine and Reichenow, Nom. Mus. Hein. Orn., 1890, 285 



(Rio Grande do Sul, s. Brazil; Cuba). 

 Starnoenas montana Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, iv, no. 35 (Columbae), 1873, 165 



(Surinam; Brazil). 

 [Columba martinicana] (3 Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. 2, 1789, 781, part. 

 (1)Columba martinica (not Linnseus?) Temminck and Knip, Pigeons, i, fam. trois., 



1808-11, pis. 5, 6.— Temminck, Pig. et Gallin., i, 1813, 400, 433. 

 (1)C[olumbd\ martinica Lichtenstein, Verz. Doubl., 1823, 66. 

 Geotrygon cayennensis Bokaparte, Compt. Rend., xl, 1855, 100 (St. Thomas; crit.). 

 (?) Starnoenas cuprea (not Columba cuprea Wagler, 1827) Schlegel, Mus. Pays- 

 Bas, iv, no. 35 (Columbae), 1873, 165 (Maribitanas, Brazil; Demerara; 



Surinam). 

 Geotrygon ? Sclater and Salvtn, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1864, 370 



(Panama). 



OREOPELEIA VTOLACEA ALBIVENTER (Lawrence). 



WHITE-BELLIED QUAIL-DOVE. 



Similar to O. v. violacea, a but color of forehead and cheeks more 

 vinaceous and purple or violet gloss on back more pronounced. 



Adult male. — Forehead pale ecru-drab, tinged with pinkish or 

 vinaceous; crown, occiput, and nape dark purple-drab glossed with 

 purple-bronze, passing into vinaceous-gray laterally and anteriorly; 

 hindneck deep brownish brightly glossed with metallic purple or violet, 

 the back deep chestnut or chestnut-brown glossed with metallic 

 purple or violet; rest of upper parts, including remiges and tail, 

 chestnut-brown, bay, or dull chestnut, the primaries rather lighter 

 or clearer chestnut; sides of head dull vinaceous-grayish, much paler 

 and more vinaceous (like color of forehead) anteriorly and beneath 

 bare orbital space, passing into dull vinaceous-lilac on foreneck and 

 chest, the remaining under parts immaculate buffy white, becoming 

 more pinkish buffy anteriorly; axillars and proximal wing-coverts 

 white, or mostly white, the distal under wing-coverts dull chestnut 

 or deep vinaceous-russet, the under surface of remiges wholly clear 

 vinaceous-russet; bill brownish (in dried skins); legs and feet pale 

 brownish (in dried skins); length (skins), 213-235 (224); wing, 136- 



» See p. 469. Specimens of the South American form have not been available for 

 comparison, and the differential character are therefore taken from Messrs. Salvin and 

 Godman, in Biol. Cent.- Am., Aves, iii, 265. 



