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[Geotrygon] violacea Sclater and Salvin, Norn. Av. Neotr., 1873, 134, part.— 

 Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 87, part (Costa Rica). 



Geotrygon albiventer Lawrence, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1865, 108 ([Lion Hill] 

 Panama; coll. G. N. Lawrence); Ann. Lye. N. Y., ix, 1868, 135 (Angos- 

 tura, Costa Rica).— Frantzius, Journ. fur Orn., 1869, 371 (Costa Rica).— Zele- 

 d6n, Anal. Mus. Nac. C. R., i, 1888, 127 (Costa Rica).— Salvin and Godman, 

 Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, iii, 1902, 265 (Angostura and Volcan de Miravalles, 

 Costa Rica; Lion Hill, Panama).— Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xxii, 1909, 

 30 (Tenorio, Costa Rica). 



[Oreopeleia] albiventer Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 242, no. 9377. 



G[eotrygon] v[iolacea] albiventer Hellmayr, Novit. Zool., xiii, 1906, 384, in text 

 (crit.). 



Geotrygon violacea albiventer Carriker, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vi, 1910, 404 (Tenorio 

 and Miravalles, Costa Rica; crit.). 



G[eotrygon] albiventris Sclater and Salvin, Exotic Orn., pt. v, 1868, 78, in 

 text (Panama). 



OREOPELEIA VERAGDENSIS (Lawrence). 



VEB.AGUA QTJ AIL-DOVE. 

 Lighter phase. 



Adults {.sexes alike). — Forehead white, passing into gray on middle 

 of crown, this into dark purplish gray (vinaceous-slate) on occiput 

 and nape, which are faintly glossed with purple; hindneck and rest 

 of upper parts dark olive-brown, becoming more grayish posteriorly 

 (the tail and primaries deep brownish gray), the hindneck and back 

 faintly glossed with bronze (more brightly on hindneck), the extreme 

 upper back glossed with purplish; a broad white stripe extending 

 from beneath the lores to end of auricular region; a broad malar 

 stripe of dark brownish gray, merging posteriorly into the olive of 

 sides of neck; chin and median portion of throat white, more or less 

 tinged with brown posteriorly; rest of neck, together with chest, 

 plain olive, or deep brownish gray, glossed (most strongly on sides of 

 neck) with bronze or bronzy purple, the color of chest passing gradu- 

 ally into light brownish gray on breast and anterior portion of sides; 

 flanks and posterior portion of sides light buffy cinnamon, the 

 abdomen and anal region pale cream-buff to buffy white; under tail- 

 coverts deep brownish gray, broadly tipped with pale buffy cinna- 

 mon or cinnamon-buff; axillars and under wing-coverts buffy cinna- 

 mon; bill black; iris straw-yellow to pale gray; bare orbital space 

 "purplish blood red"; legs and feet pinkish blood red. 



Dark phase. 



Similar to the lighter phase, but coloration much darker, the fore- 

 head buffy to light pinkish cinnamon, the flanks, etc., deep cinna- 

 mon or sayal brown, the whole neck, chest, and breast strongly 

 glossed with purple. 



