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Chaemepelia passerina aflavida, Todd, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vol. 8, 1912, 

 pp. 563-564 (Haiti, Dominican Republic). — Ridgway, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 

 50, pt. 7, 1916, p. 415 (Jacinel, Petionville, Port-au-Prince, Catarrey, Honduras, 

 Sanchez, San Cristobal, La Vega, San Jose de Ocoa, Fuerte Resoli, Santo 

 Domingo City, Puerto Plata).— Beebe, Zool. Soc. Bull., vol. 30, 1927, p. 139; 

 Beneath Tropic Seas, 1928, p. 220 (Haiti).— Danforth, Auk, 1929, p. 336 (com- 

 mon). — Lonnberg, Fauna och Flora, 1929, p. 101 (Haiti). — Moltoni, Att. Soc. 

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



Chaemepelia passerina iusularis, Peters, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., p. 407 

 (Monte Cristi, Sostia). 



Chamaepelia passerina insularis, Bond, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 

 vol. 80, 1928, p. 499 ( Port-de-Pais, specimen). 



Kesident, except in the higher mountains and in dense forests. 



The ground-dove is too widely distributed to make necessary 

 detailed discussion of its distribution. It has been recorded at the 

 following points : 



Dominican Republic: Comendador to Azua, Santo Domingo City 

 to San Francisco de Macoris, Moca (Wetmore) ; La Vega (Christy, 

 Verrill, specimen from latter in collection of J. H. Fleming) Jara- 

 bacoa (Abbott) ; Monte Cristi, Sosiia (Peters) ; San Juan (Ciferri) ; 

 Saona Island (Abbott). 



Haiti: Jeremie (Abbott, specimens; Bartsch) ; Trou des Roseaux, 

 Petit Goave, Miragoane (Bartsch) ; Aquin, Fonds-des-Negres, fitang 

 Miragoane, L'Acul, Carrefour, Damien, La Tremblay (Wetmore) ; 

 Port-au-Prince (Younglove, specimens, Bartsch, Wetmore) ; Trou 

 Caiman, Glore (Bartsch) ; Massif de la Selle, Chapelle Faure, Furcy, 

 Morne a Cabrits to St. Michel by way of Hinche, Caracol (Wet- 

 more) ; Riviere Bar, Moustique; Etroites and Anse a Galets, Gonave 

 Island; Tortue Island (Abbott) ; L'Atalaye, St. Michel, St. Raphael, 

 Pont Sonde, Fort Liberte, Cerca-la-Source (Poole and Perrygo). 



The bird has long been known from Haiti since Hearne in 1834 

 sent specimens alive to the Zoological Society of London. Wetmore 

 found a few in the cultivated fields of the Jardin Bois Pin on 

 La Selle but did not meet with it in the open pine forests on the 

 summit of the ridge. It is not known at present from the high valley 

 of Constanza. Abbott found it abundant on Gonave, Tortue, and 

 Saona Islands. It seems to be rare on the Samana Peninsula as there 

 are no records for it there at present. 



The ground-dove is found in open fields or pastures and does not 

 range in dense woodland though it may occur in very small clear- 

 ings. Many are noted at the roadside in traveling through the 

 country. The ground-dove is found in pairs or little bands, con- 

 gregating where its food of seeds may be obtained. It walks about, 

 nervously moving the head, to remain still at hint of danger and 

 then to rise suddenly with a bright flash of reddish brown from the 

 tinder surface of the wings. The call of the male, uttered constantly 



