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Columla portoricensis, Hartlatjb, Isis, 1847, p. 609 (listed from Hispaniola). — 

 Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Pt. 4, Columbae, 1868, p. 6S (type from Haiti). 



Columba corensis, Salle, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1857, p. 235 (Dominican 

 Republic). — Bryant, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 11, May, 1867, p. 96 

 (Dominican Republic). — Cory, Birds Haiti and San Domingo, Dec, 1884, 

 pp. 136-137 (Magua, specimens) ; Cat. West Indian Birds, 1892, p. 96 (Haiti, 

 Dominican Republic). — Tippenhatter, Die Insel Haiti, 1892, p. 322 (listed).— 

 Cherrie, Field Columbian Mus., Ornith. ser., vol 1, 1896, p. 24 (Dominican 

 Republic).— Verrill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1909, p. 357 (Domini- 

 can Republic). — Kaempfer, Journ. fur Ornith., 1924, p. 183 (Sanchez). 



Resident ; abundant in many places in the interior. 



The scaled pigeon, which shares with the white-headed and plain 

 pigeons the names paloma in the Dominican Republic and ramier 

 in Haiti, is common through the wooded sections of the island be- 

 ing especially numerous in the hills of the interior. Oviedo speaks 

 of it in the early part of the sixteenth century, and it has been one of 

 the favored game birds of the island to the present day. 



In the Dominican Republic Abbott collected a male above Paradis, 

 February 1, 1922, and two pairs at Laguna, on the Samana Penin- 

 sula August 7, 12 and 13, 1916, and March 6, 1919. He notes that 

 birds secured here in March were in breeding condition. He secured 

 another pair near Constanza April 13 and IT, 1919, the latter taken 

 at an altitude of 1,800 meters on Loma Rio Grande. Kaempfer noted 

 scaled pigeons near Sanchez, and Cory secured a pair at Magua 

 January 27 and 29, 1883. Wetmore did not identify them in the 

 coastal region but on May 17 and 18 and again on May 29 to 30, 

 1927 recorded many in riding from Jarabacoa to Constanza by way 

 of El Rio. At Constanza in the intervening period the birds were 

 common. The birds were found in both deciduous and pine forests, 

 and were observed continually flying with strong flight high above 

 the mountain valleys as they crossed from slope to slope. Their calls, 

 smooth and less guttural in tone than those of C. leucocephala, 

 came frequently to the ear. The note may be written who who hoo- 

 oo-hoo uttered slowly in a loud tone. The male in display scaled out 

 with set wings, tilting from side to side and changing direction 

 slightly every few feet so that while it transversed a circular or 

 elliptical course the actual line of flight was very irregular. Dan- 

 forth records one taken at Laguna del Salodillo, near Copey, June 

 26, 1927, others seen at Seibo and La Vega, and ten, mainly young 

 shot at Bonao in early August. Ciferri sent specimens to Moltoni 

 from Bonao taken November 7, 18, and 20, 1927. 



In Haiti the birds are abundant in forested sections but not found 

 elsewhere. Abbott found them in numbers near Moron, back of 

 Jeremie, and collected three males December 18, 1917. At Moustique 



