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April 2, 1883. He had specimens also from Almercen (Villa Rivas). 

 One of his skins, a female, from Puerto Plata, December 14, 1882, 

 is now in the United States National Museum. Cherrie recorded 

 the ruddy quail-dove in the hills of the southern part of the Domin- 

 ican Republic in small numbers but saw few near the coast. He 

 obtained specimens at Catarrey. Verrill says that near El Valle 

 large numbers were trapped by the natives and sold in the markets 

 at three cents a pair. Ridgway examined specimens from Sanchez 

 and La Vega in addition to those indicated above. Beck secured 

 specimens at Santo Domingo City October 9, 10, 19, and 20, 1916, 

 and at Tiibano February 13, 1917. 



At Laguna, on the Samana peninsula, Abbott found the ruddy 

 quail-dove in numbers so that he collected twelve specimens of both 

 sexes August 10, 13, and 14, 1916, and March 4, 6, 7, 8, and 10, 1919. 

 He took two at Sanchez February 17 and 20, 1919. A female shot 

 February 20, near Sanchez, contained a nearty mature egg, and he 

 indicates February to May as the regular breeding season. At 

 Laguna he observed a number of nests composed of a few sticks or 

 dead leaves placed loosely from six to eight feet from the ground 

 on clumps of Tillandsia, an epiphyte abundant in the dripping 

 woodland. A set of two eggs taken at this point about March 15, 

 1919, are colored light buff, are rather rounded, and measure 26.4 by 

 21.1 and 26.1 by 21.7 mm. A second set of two and a single egg 

 secured in April, 1919 were forwarded from the same locality, the 

 single being slightly paler than the average of the others. One egg 

 in the set is broken, the other measuring 28.1 by 21.2 mm. The 

 single egg mentioned is greatly elongated and is more pointed, its 

 measurements being 31.2 by 19.6 mm. It appears abnormal in 

 form. Two young birds not quite grown were taken March 6 and 

 7, 1919. 



Kaempfer found the ruddy quail-dove very common at Cotui, 

 where nests seen at the end of February contained either young or 

 hard-set eggs. The nests observed were placed only a meter above 

 the ground. He wrote that the birds were hunted at night with 

 torches when they could be captured by hand. 



Wetmore heard the resonant cooing of this dove in the heavy 

 forests above Sanchez May 7, 1927, and on May 13 these birds were 

 fairly common in the dripping woodland bordering the irregular 

 trail that leads over the hills to Las Terrenas on the north coast. 

 May 10 he flushed several in swampy forest opposite the Arroyo 

 Guayabo near the mouth of the Yuna, and heard their moaning 

 calls frequently. One was heard near Constanza May 24. Peters 

 collected a male at Los Toritos in the spring of 1916 and reports 

 that children trapped these birds in little traps made of sticks. 



