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66. Geotrygon chrysia Salvador!. Key West Quail Dove. 



Geotrygon martinica (not Columba martinica Linnaeus) Cory, Cat. W. Indian Birds. 



1892, 97 (I. of Pines, in geog. distr.). 

 Geotrygon chrysia Bangs & Zappey, Am. Nat., XXXIX, 1905, 198 (Pasadita). — 



Read, Oologist, XXVIII, 191 1, 11 (I. of Pines). — Read, I. of Pines News, VI, 



Feb. 21, 1914 (I. of Pines; descr.). 

 "Quail Dove" Read, Forest and Stream, LXXIII, 1909, 452 (I. of Pines). — Read, 



Oologist, XXVI, 1909, 102, and XXX, 1913, 131 (I. of Pines); XXVIII, 191 1, 



113 (West McKinley). 



One specimen: Nueva Gerona. 



This is one of the rarer birds in the Isle of Pines. Mr. Zappey 

 took but two specimens, both at Pasadita, remarking that it occurs 

 only on one or two of the mountains and in the dense forest south of 

 the Cienaga. Mr. Read asserts that he has taken specimens of this 

 species, but that it is rare. Mr. Link secured but the one specimen 

 listed above; this was taken on July 3 in the thick jungle on the Casas 

 Mountains, and another was seen there on December 30. The bird 

 secured was an adult female, containing well-developed eggs. It is 

 markedly duller than a male bird from Cuba. 



67. Geotrygon montana (Linuceus). Ruddy Quail Dove. 



Geotrygon montana Cory, Cat. W. Indian Birds, 1892, 97 (I. of Pines, in geog. distr.). 

 — Bangs & Zappey, Am. Nat., XXXIX, 1905, 197 (La Vega, Pasadita, and Cayo 

 Bonito; habits), 203, in text (Santa Sevilla). — Read, Oologist, XXVI, 1909, 149 

 (I. of Pines; habits); XXVIII, 1911, 11 (I. of Pines). — Read, I. of Pines News, 

 VI, Feb. 21, 1914 (L of Pines; descr.). 



"Ruddy Quail Dove" Read, Forest and Stream, LXXIII, 1909, 452 (I. of Pines). 

 —Read, Oologist, XXVI, 1909, 75 (I. of Pines); XXVIII, 191 1, 113 (West 

 McKinley); XXX, 1913, 125 (Santa Barbara), 131 (I. of Pines). 



" The Ruddy Quail-dove occurs in the Isle of Pines in the denser 

 woods only, usually in rather moist places, where the ground is often 

 flooded after heavy rains. It is nowhere abundant. When flushed 

 from the ground it flies but a short distance and on alighting again 

 runs along for a few feet and conceals itself among the vegetation 

 much after the manner of the American Woodcock {Philohela minor), 

 which it curiously resembles when started in the deep woods." 

 (Bangs & Zappey.) 



Mr. Read's account agrees well with the above. Mr. Link 

 failed to meet with this species, although he heard of it on one occa- 

 sion. 



