BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 489 



Adult female. — Length (skins), 247; wing, 137; tail, 79; exposed 

 culmen, 17.5; tarsus, 41.5; middle toe, 28. a 



Highlands of Costa Eica (Burgos de Irazu; La Estrella de Cartago; 

 Azahar de Cartago; Cerro de la Candelaria; Las Cruces de Cande- 

 laria, 3,000-4,000feet;Escazti; Rancho Redondo; Carrillo; Turrialba; 

 Cariblanco de Sarapiqul ; Cordillera de Talamanca, 7,000 feet ; Ten6rio ; 

 Cachl) and western Panama (Boquete; Volcan de Chiriqui, 7,000- 

 10,000 feet). 



Geotrygon costaricensis Lawrence, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., ix, 1868, 136 

 (Costa Rica; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). — Frantzius, Journ. fur Orri., 1869, 

 371 (Las Cruces de Candelaria, Costa Rica). — Rowley, Orn. Misc., ill, pt. 

 xi, 1877, 43-46, pi. 87.— Boucard, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1878, 43 (Cerro 

 de la Candelaria, Costa Rica, 3,000-4,000 ft.; habits). — Ridgway, Proc. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., v, 1883, 498 (Volcan de Irazu, Costa Rica), 502 (San Jose, Costa 

 Rica). — Zeledon, Anal. Mus. Nac. C. R., i, 1888, 127 (Rancho Redondo, 

 Costa Rica).— Bangs, Proc. New Engl. Zool. Club, iii, 1902, 24 (Boquete 

 and Volcan de Chiriqui, 7,000-10,000 ft., Panama); Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 

 xix, 1906, 102 (Volcan de Chiriqui, Panama; crit.). — Salvadori, Cat. Birds 

 Brit. Mus., xxi, 1893, 577 (La Candelaria, Costa Rica). — Salvin and God- 

 man, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, iii, 1902, 267 (San Jose, Las Cruces de Can- 

 delaria, Candelaria Mts., Volcan de Irazu, Azahar de Cartago, La Estrella 

 de Cartago, Turrialba, Carrillo, and Rancho Redondo, Costa Rica). — Car- 

 hiker, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vi, 1910, 406 (Burgos, La Estrella, Volcan de 

 Turrialba, Cachi, Irazu, Escazu, Cariblanco de Sarapiqui, and Cordillera 

 de Talamanca, 7,000 ft., Costa Rica; crit.). 



[Geotrygon] costaricensis Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 243, no. 9400. — Sclater and 

 Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 134. — Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 88. — 

 Forbes and Robinson, Bull. Liverp. Mus., ii, 1900, 146. 



G[eotrygon] costaricensis Salvin, Ibis, 1874, 328, in text (crit.). 



Geotrygon lawrencii (not of Salvin, 1874) Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., 

 Aves, iii, 1902, 266, part (Boquete and Volcan de Chiriqui, Panama). 



OREOPELEIA LAWRENCEI (Salvin). 



LAWRENCE'S QUAIL-DOVE. 



Resembling O. costaricensis, but forehead grayish white (instead of 

 buffy), hindneck duller and more grayish green, back dull dark pur- 

 ple (anthracene purple) instead of purplish hessian brown, and 

 wing-coverts, rump, and upper tail-coverts olive-brown (instead of 

 chestnut-brown) . 



Adults (sexes alike). — Forehead very pale bluish gray or grayish 

 white anteriorly passing, through deeper bluish gray, into greenish 

 deep neutral gray on occiput and nape; hindneck and extreme upper 

 back semimetallic deep olive, abruptly defined against a dark pur- 

 plish brown (semimetallic anthracene purple) triangular area covering 

 the interscapular region; scapulars, rump, and proximal secondaries 

 plain deep grayish olive, the wing-coverts similar but more brownish 

 (olive-brown), the upper tail-coverts both darker and browner; alulse, 



a One specimen (from western Panama). 



