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Fam. COLUMBIDJi:. 



25. Chamaepelia passerlBa (Linn.). 



" Ground Dove. Abundaut everywhere." 



26. Columba leucocephala (Linn.). 

 ''White-beaded Pigeon. 



"Kare among the southern hills. Think this their southern breeding 

 limit, save perhaps Montserrat." 



27. Zenaida martinicana, Bp. 



" Turtle Dove. Not common among the hills." 



Fam. TETRAONIDiE. 



28. Ortyz virginianus (Linn.). 

 " Quail." 



''The pastures abandoned are fast becoming populated with quail j 

 the acacia scrub forming agreeable shelter for them and protecting 

 cover. So far as 1 can ascertain they were introduced; but at what 

 period no one seems to know. They are now in sufficient numbers to 

 make good sport. Think tliey breed at about the same season as the 

 northern quail, as young but half-grown were plentiful in July and 

 August." 



The single specimen sent, a male, resembles most the primitive north- 

 ern stock ; it differs in being smaller, the skin measuring in length 8^ 

 inches, wing 4^, and in having the crown and hind neck blackish, in 

 this character resembling xar. Jioridanus, but not otherwise; the trans- 

 verse markings below being of the same size as those of the northern 

 bird, which in the Florida race are twice the width. 



In its upper plumage it is much like the male of 0. cubanensisGoaM (of 

 which I have mounted specimens of both sexes), but they differ in their 

 under plumage, the Antigua bird being like 0. virginianus, but in 0. 

 cubanensis the black extends from the throat over the breast, and the 

 feathers of the abdomen are rufous, with arrow-head markings of black 

 and irregular tear-shaped white spots. The wing measures four inches. 



The female of 0. cubanensis has transverse markings on the under 

 surface as in the typical form, but more strongly defined and wider; but 

 they are not so wide as in var. florid anus; the crown, hind neck, and 

 sides of the head are blackish where reddish-chestnut prevails in the 

 northern bird; the back is grayish-ash, with no appearance of the pink- 

 ish-red, which exists in the female of 0. virginianus on the back and on 

 the upper part and sides of the breast. 



Fam. RALLIDiE. 



29. Rallus? 



"Kail. Moor-hen. Kesideut; plentiful apparently, but shy." 



30. Fulica ? 



" ' Uoot.' Not seen ; migrant." 



