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Turtle, Wimpffen, Yoy. Saint Domingo, 1817, p. 1S8 (size of quail). 



Tortola (in part) Oviedo, Hist. Gen. Nat. Indias, Libr. 14, Cap. 2; Reprint, 

 Madrid, 1851, p. 442 (recorded). 



Tourterelle, Saint-Mery, Descript. Part. Frang.Jle Saint-Domingue, vol. 1, 

 1797, pp. 262, 717, vol. 2, 1798, p. 79 (Dondon, Port-de-Paix, Port-a-Piment). 



Tourterelle vineuse, Descourtilz, Toy. Nat., vol. 2, 1809, pp. 189-193 

 (common). 



Tourterelle brune, Descourtilz, Toy. Nat., vol. 2, 1809, pp. 193-194 (common). 



Turtur caroliniensis Brisson, Ornith., vol. 1, 1760, p. 110, pi. 8 (" Saint- 

 Domingue "). 



*? Columba dominicensis, Hartlaub, Naumannia, 1S52, p. 53 (Haiti, common). 



Columba carolinensis, Bryant, Proc. Boston Soe. Nat. Hist., vol. 11, May, 

 1867, p. 96 (Haiti, Dominican Republic). 



Zenaidura carolinensis, Sat.le, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1857, p. 235 (Domini- 

 can Republic).— Cory, Bull. Nuttall Ornitb. Club, 18S1, p. 154 (Gantier) ; Birds 

 Haiti and San Domingo, Dec, 1884, pp. 129-130 (Le Coup, specimen). — Tippen- 

 hauer, Die Insel Haiti, 1892, p. 322 (listed).— Christy, Ibis, 1897, p. 335 

 (La Vega). 



Zenaiduni macroura, Cory, Cat. West Indian Birds, 1892, p. 97 (Haiti, Do- 

 minican Republic). — Cherrie, Field Columbian Mus., Ornitb. ser., vol. 1, 1S96, 

 p. 24 (San Cristobal, Honduras, Maniel). — Verrill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila- 

 delphia, 1909, p. 357 (La Vega, specimen). — Kaempfer, Journ. fur Ornith., 1924, 

 p. 183 (Sanchez).— Lonnberg, Fauna och Flora, 1929, p. 101 (Haiti). 



Zonaidura macroura macroura, Peters, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 61, 1917, 

 p. 408 (Monte Cristi).— Bond, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 80, 1928, 

 p. 498 (Haiti, Gonave, Tortue). — Danforth, Auk, 1929, p. 365 (common).— 

 Moltoni, Att. Soc. Ital. Scienz. Nat., vol. 68, 1929, p. 315 (San Juan, specimens). 



Resident ; common. 



In appearance, habits and note the West Indian mourning dove is 

 a counterpart of the forms of North America. In Hispaniola this 

 bird, as usual, is a species of open country, where it feeds in fields and 

 pastures, or of open glades in woodland, and nests and rests in 

 thickets and groves of trees. It does not penetrate dense rain-forest 

 jungles except casually, although it finds in the open pine forests of 

 the highlands conditions favorable for its life. The birds are found 

 ordinarily in pairs or little bands that congregate where seeds that 

 furnish food abound. They walk about on the ground with rapidly 

 nodding heads but at any alarm stop to remain motionless when their 

 color harmonizes so with the ground that they may not be perceived 

 until they flush with musically winnowing wings and dart quickly 

 away with rapid flight to a perch in some tree. When approached 

 in such a situation they jerk the head and twitch the tail nervously 

 and then suddenly take flight again. The song of this species is a 

 cooing call, uttered with slow cadence, that in tone is mournful to 

 the ears of some, though others, like the writers, find it pleasing. 

 The birds are hunted as game but unless too severely pursued hold 

 their abundance. 



The mourning dove has been recorded by many naturalists in 

 Hispaniola. Oviedo includes under the name tortola. Brisson in 



