Cory Ofi the Birds of the West Indies. ^^3 



Ortyx cudanensis Govi.D,'Mon. Odont. (1850). — Cab. J. f. O. 1856, p. 337. 

 — Brewer, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. VII, p. 307 (i860). — Albrecht, 

 J. f. O. 1861, p. 213. — GuNDL. Repert. Fisico-Xat. Cuba, I, p. 303 

 (1866).— Gray, Handl. Bds. II, p. 273 (1870).— Guxdl. J. f. O. 1S74, 

 p. 300; ib. 1875, p. 293; id. 1878, p. 161; i5. Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. 

 Nat. VII, p. 350(1878). 



Ortyx cube/tsis ScL. & Salv. Nom. Avium Neotr. p. 137 (1S73). 



Ortyx virginianus var. cubanensis Bd. Bwr. & Ridgw. Hist. N. Am. Bds. 

 Ill, p. 468 (1S74). 



Colintis ctibanetisis Cory, List Bds. W. I. p. 24 (18S5). 



Sp. Ch.\r. — Upper portions of throat and superciliary stripe white; band 

 of neck passing from the mandible, under the eye, down the sides of 

 the neck ; breast and lower portion of throat black ; back chestnut, 

 variegated with dull brown ; the feathers on the nape heavily spotted 

 with white; under parts variegated, dull brown, rufous, white, and 

 dark brown; sides of the body dull rufous, heavily spotted with 

 white and black; primaries dull brown. 



The female differs from the male in having the white stripe and 

 throat tawny buff, and in lacking the chestnut on the breast to a 

 great extent. 



Length, 8; wing, 4; tail, 2.50; tarsus, i ; bill, .45. 

 Habitat. Cuba and Porto Rico. 



Colinus virginianus (Linn.). 



Tetrao virginianus Linn. Syst. Nat. I, p. 277 (1766). 



Ortyx virginiana GossE, Bds. Jam. p. 328 (1847). — CoRY, Bull. Nutt. 

 Orn. Club, VI, p. 154 (1881) (Haiti). 



Ortyx virginianus A. & E. Newton, Ibis, 1S59, P- 254 (St. Croix). — Bry- 

 ant, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. VII, p. 120 (1859) (Bahamas). — Scl. 

 P. Z. S. 1861, p. 80 (Jamaica). — Albrecht, J. f. O. 1862, p. 205 

 (Jamaica). — March, Pr. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1863, p. 303 

 (Jamaica).— Lawr. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. I, pp. 237, 487 (1878) (An- 

 tigua). — Cory, Bds. Bahama I. p. 142 (1880). — A. & E. Newton, 

 Handb. Jamaica, p. 117 (iSSi). — Cory, Bds. Haiti & San Domingo, 

 p. 1 38 (iSSs). 



Colinus virginianus CoRY, List Bds. W. I. p. 24 (1S85). 



Sp. Char. Male: — Above rich brownish red, mottled with black ; crown 

 black, shading into brown at the base of the skull, and mottled with 

 black and white on the nape ; a white superciliary line passing from 

 nostril to nape ; throat white, bordered broadly with black; upper 

 breast and sides reddish brown, shading into white on the belly, the 

 feathers thickly banded with black; crissum reddish brown ; tertials 

 and some of the wing-coverts edged with yellowish white ; bill en- 

 tirely black. 



