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Negres east to Port-au-Prince and north and east through the Cul- 

 de-Sac Plain at least as far as Mirebalais and Thomazeau, and a 

 point 20 kilometers north of Port-au-Prince, extending inland 

 through the hills to an elevation of 1,200 meters or more at Kenskoff 

 and below Furcy. 



The bob-white has a short plump form that distinguishes it from 

 all other birds of the island except the quail-doves. It is reddish 

 brown above mottled with black and grayish buff, and whitish below 

 barred irregularly with black. The flanks are streaked with bright 

 brown, and there are heavy black markings on the sides of the head, 

 crown and upper breast. The throat is white in the male and brown 

 in the female. The male taken by Abbott measured 230 mm. in 

 length. 



COLINUS VIRGINIANUS CUBANENSIS (Gould) 

 CUBAN BOB-WHITE, CODORNIZ, CORONISA 



Ortyx cubanensis Gould, in Gray, Gen. Birds, vol. 3, May, 1846, p. 514 

 Cuba). 



Cuban Quail, Phillips, U. S. Dept. Agr. Techn. Bull. 61, April, 1928, p. 31 

 (Dominican Republic.) 



Colinus cubanensis, Cory, Auk, 1S95, p. 279 (Dominican Republic). — Cherrie, 

 Field Columbian Mus., Ornitb. Ser., vol. 1, March, 1896, p. 24 (Dominican 

 Republic). 



Colinus virginianus, Danforth, Auk, 1929, p. 362 (part, Santo Domingo 

 City, Los Alcarrizos, Hato Mayor). 



Colinus virginianus virginianus, Moltoni, At.t. Soc. Ital. Scienz. Nat., vol. 68, 

 1929, p. 311 (Sabana de Guerra, specimen). 



Said to have been introduced into the Dominican Republic. 



The earliest record for the Cuban bob-white is that of Cherrie 

 who says " introduced into San Domingo by an American sugar 

 planter by the name of Bass, about six years ago. It has increased 

 very rapidly, and now for a good many miles around San Domingo 

 City flocks of from ten to twenty-five are frequently met." 



In the American Museum of Natural History there are two adult 

 males taken by R. H. Beck near Santo Domingo City May 28 and 

 29, 1917. Both of these birds are very dark, the black of the breast 

 being so extensive that it covers the greater part of each feather. 

 The rufescent colors also are darker than the average for this race. 

 These two have the following measurements: wing 101.2-102.0, tail 

 37.0-41.1, culmen from base 14.5-15.0, tarsus 27.9-28.2 mm. Maj. J. A. 

 Bonilla Atiles of the Policia Nacional Dominicana informed Wet- 

 more that he had found this bird in flocks and had shot a number. 

 At Constanza there was further talk about the quail at San Pedro 

 de Macoris and it was believed here that the bob-white was an enemy 

 of the woodpecker which it drove from the cornfields when that 



