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and Trinidad) ; San Domingo (Puerto Plata) ; and Porto Rico 

 (Mona Island, Aguadilla, Manati, and Vieques Island). East to 

 Porto Rico (Vieques Island) ; the Lesser Antilles (Guadeloupe 

 Island, Dominica Island, Grenada Island, and probably Trinidad) ; 

 British Guiana (Bartica) ; and eastern Brazil (Para, Capim River, 

 Mirador, Cantagallo, Murungaba, Ypanema, and Iguape). South 

 to Brazil (Iguape and Mattogrosso) ; northwestern Bolivia (Apolo) ; 

 and Peru (Tarma). West to Peru (Tarma, Ucayali River, Yuri- 

 maguas, Chamicuros, and Nauta) ; Ecuador (Sarayacu and Pa- 

 ramba) ; northern Colombia (Bonda) ; Panama (Chiriqui) ; Costa 

 Rica (Boruca, Terraba, Orosi, Angostura, and San Carlos) ; Nica- 

 ragua (Chinandega) ; southern Vera Cruz (Esperanza) ; and Hidalgo 

 (Chiquihuite Mountain and Potrero). 



Casual records. — Miller (1905), reporting on a collection of birds 

 made in southern Sinaloa, Mexico, cites the capture of a specimen 

 at Arroyo de Limones, on April 21, 1904, and indicates that others 

 (" stragglers ") were seen by the collector. There are two records 

 for Key West, Fla., a specimen shot by a hunter on December 8, 

 1888, and another captured alive in May, 1923. This bird was sent 

 co the National Zoological Park, where it lived until March 5, 1926. 



Egg dates. — West Indies : 15 records, March 24 to June 13 ; 8 

 records, April 26 to May 11. 



STARNOENAS CYANOCEPHALA (Linnaeus) 

 BLUE-HEADED QUAIL-DOVE 



HABITS 



The beautiful blue-headed quail-dove, one of the handsomest on 

 our list, is a Cuban species, which occurs, as a rare straggler only, 

 on some of the Florida Keys. No one seems to have recorded it 

 on the keys since Audubon's (1840) experience with it, of which he 

 says: 



A few of these birds migrate each spring from the Island of Cuba to the 

 Keys of Florida, but are rarely seen, on account of the deep tangled woods in 

 which they live. Early in May, 1832, while on a shooting excursion with the 

 commander of the United States Revenue Cutter Marion, I saw a pair of them 

 on the western side of Key West. They were near the water, picking gravel, 

 but on our approaching them they ran back into the thickets, which were only 

 a few yards distant. Several fishermen and wreckers informed us that they 

 were more abundant on the " Mule Keys " ; but although a large party and 

 myself searched these islands for a whole day, not one did we discover there. 

 I saw a pair which I was told had been caught when young on the latter 

 Keys, but I could not obtain any other information respecting them, than that 

 they were fed on cracked corn and rice, which answered the purpose well. 



