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The bird from Hispaniola in the male has the wing 182.0 to 193.0 

 with an average of 186.0 mm. (14 specimens) and in the female 

 184.5 to 202.0 with an average of 190.3 mm. (13 specimens). It thus 

 averages slightly larger than the Cuban bird, though a few in the 

 series from Cuba are as large as birds from the adjacent island. 

 The series from Haiti and the Dominican Republic varies in depth 

 of brownish color from nearly white below to a strong brownish wash 

 on the breast but none that we have seen are as completely rufescent 

 as the darkest specimens from Cuba. Except for the rufescent phase 

 so commonly represented in Cuba birds from the two islands are 

 quite similar in coloration. 



The male sparrow hawk is white or buffy white below with more 

 or less of a rufescent wash on the breast, and the sides and flanks 

 with a few black spots. The tail is bright reddish brown with 

 whitish tip followed by a black band. The rump and upper back 

 are reddish brown and the middle back, wing coverts and crown are 

 gray, the latter sometimes with a reddish brown central patch. 

 Black streaks across the otherwise pale cheeks form prominent field 

 marks. The female is similar but has the entire upper surface ex- 

 cept the head reddish brown barred heavily with black, and is 

 streaked below with reddish brown. The species ranges from 255 

 to 285 mm. in length. 



Order GALLIFORMES 



Suborder Galli 



Superfamily PHASIANIDES 



Family PERDICIDAE 



Subfamily Odontophorinae 



COLINUS VIRGINIANUS VIRGINIANUS (Linnaeus) 

 BOB-WHITE, CAILLE 



Tetrao virginianus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, vol. 1, 1758, p. 161 

 (Carolina). 



Caille, Saint-Mery, Descrip. Part. Frany. lie Saint-Domingue, vol. 2, 1798, 

 p. 479 (Leogane, common). 



Ortyx virginiana, Cory, Bull. Nuttall Ornith. Club, 1881, p. 154 (Haiti, com- 

 mon) ; Birds Haiti and San Domingo, Dec., 1884, pp. 13S-139 (specimens). — 

 Tippenhauer, Die Insel Haiti, 1892, pp. 320-321, 322 (Haiti). 



Colinus virginianus (part), Cory, Cat. West Indian Birds, 1892, p. 96 

 (Haiti).— Beebe, Zool. Soc. Bull., vol. 30, 1927, p. 139; Beneath Tropic Seas, 

 1928, p. 220 (Bizoton, Etang Miragoane) .— Danforth, Auk, 1929, p. 362 (Mire- 

 balais, Grand Goave, Fonds-des-Negres). 



Colinus virginianus virginianus, Bond, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 

 vol. 80, 1928, p. 493 (Furcy, Etang Miragoane). 



