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COLINUS VIRGINIANUS CUBANENSIS (Gray) 



Cuban Bobwhite 



Adult male. — Similar to that of the nominate race but much darker 

 and more reddish, the black gular collar very much broader, the entire 

 upper and lateral parts of the abdomen between hazel and ochraceous- 

 tawny, the feathers margined with black (the black broken with white 

 patches on the feathers of the sides) and not transversely barred with 

 black as in the typical subspecies (except in examples with mixed blood 

 due to the introduction of birds from the North American mainland) ; 

 anterior upperparts with less grayish and more deep tawny russet than 

 in the nominate race ; posterior upperparts with no rufescent, all grayish ; 

 the grayish edgings of the interscapulars and upper back darker — deep 

 mouse gray, the black blotches on the wings and lower back much larger ; 

 the black feather edgings on the interscapulars nape much broader, forming 

 almost a black collar across that area. 



Adult jcnmle. — Very similar to that of the Texas race Col'inus virgin- 

 ianus texanus but darker, the blackish blotches, edges, and bars broader 

 and thereby appearing darker, the ground color of the upperparts more 

 grayish, less rufescent ; the broad superciliaries, the chin and upper throat 

 averaging darker — ochraceous-buff with a slightly dusky tinge, and the 

 edges of the feathers of the crown more grayish than brownish. 



Immature. — Like the adult of corresponding sex but with the outer 

 primaries more pointed terminally. 



Juvenal. — Like that of the nominate race but generally slightly darker. 



Natal down. — Like that of the nominate race. 



Adult male.—Wmg 97.5-106 (101.9); tail 48.5-56 (53.3); culmen 

 from base 15.1-17.2 (16.0) ; tarsus 28.3-31.4 (30.1) ; middle toe without 

 claw 24.5-27.1 (25.7mm.).« 



Adult female.— Wing 98-106 (102.4); tail 51.5-58 (54.1); culmen 

 from base 15.0-16.5 (16.0) ; tarsus 28.5-31 (29.6) ; middle toe without 

 claw 23.8-27.4 (25.4 mm.).^ 



Range. — Resident in Cuba and the Isle of Pines ; introduced into Puerto 

 Rico (where now apparently extinct) and the Dominican Republic. Now 

 much mixed with stock introduced from the North American mainland 

 and into Cuba. 



Type locality. — Cuba. 



Ortyx virginianiis (not Tctrao virginianus Linnaeus) D'Orbigny, in "L^l Sagra, Hist. 



Fis. Pol. y Nat. Cuba, Aves, 1839, 133; 8vo ed., p. 182.— Sundevall, Ofv. 



Svensk. Vet.-Akad. Forh., 1869, 601 (Puerto Rico). 

 Ortyx (virginianus ?) Gundlach, Journ. fur Orn., 1878, 186 (Puerto Rico). 

 Ortyx marylandiis (not Tetrao marilandicus Linnaeus, T. marilandus Gmelin) 



Denny, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1847, 38, part (Cuba). 



Twenty specimens. 

 Eleven specimens. 



