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Danforth collected one near San Juan July 11, and two near Bonao 

 August 7, 1927. On the latter date he found a nest placed on a matted 

 bush about a foot from the ground; it contained two eggs. 



The ruddy quail-dove seems far less abundant in Haiti than in 

 the Dominican Republic, probably because of the restricted areas 

 in the former republic where suitable rain forest is found. Des- 

 courtilz describes the hunting of this species and says that it is known 

 locally as heleux. Tippenhauer includes it in his list without com- 

 ment. F. P. Mathews collected a male at Anse a Galets, Gonave 

 Island July 17, 1927. 



Abbott reports the iris in males as brownish yellow, orange brown, 

 or brownish yellow. 



The adult male is chestnut or rufous-chestnut above, glossed on 

 the hindneck and back with reddish purple, pinkish cinnamon on 

 throat and malar region, vinaceous fawn on the breast, and buffy 

 cinnamon on the rest of the underparts. The female is much darker, 

 being olive-brown above except for the rufescent forehead, the 

 plumage glossed faintly with bronze, and cinnamon below, with a 

 band of darker brown across the breast. The birds are about as 

 large in body as the Zenaida dove and have the tail nearly square. 



OREOPELEIA CHRYSIA (Bonaparte) 

 KEY WEST QUAIL-DOVE, PERDIZ, PERDRIX, PERDRIX GRISE 



Geotrygon chrysia Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., vol. 40, 1855, p. 100 (Florida). 



Perdrix grise, Descourtilz, Voy. Nat., vol. 2, 1809, p. 196 (recorded). 



Colutnba mystacea, Heakne, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1834, p. 110 (sent alive 

 from Haiti). 



Columba martinica, Ritter, Naturh. Reis. Westind. Insel Hayti, 1836, p. 156 

 (Haiti, specimen). — Bkyant, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 11, May, 1867, 

 p. 96 (Port-au-Prince, specimens). 



Leptoptila, Salle, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1857, p. 235 (Dominican Re- 

 public). 



Geotrygon martinica, Cory, Birds Haiti and San Domingo, Dec, 1884, pp. 

 133-134 (Puerto Plata) ; Cat. West Indian Birds, 1892, p. 97 (Haiti, Dominican 

 Republic).— Tippenhauer, Die Insel Haiti, 1892, pp. 320, 322 (listed).— Cher- 

 rie, Field Columbian Mus., Ornith. ser., vol. 1, 1896, p. 24 (Aguacate). — 

 Verrill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1909, p. 351 (Cayo Levantado, 

 specimen). 



Oreopeleia chrysia, Peters, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 61, 1917, pp. 406-^07 

 (Arroyo Salado, Puerto Plata, specimens). — Ridgway, U. S. Nat. Mus., Bull. 

 50, vol. 7, 1916, p. 471 (Puerto Plata, Aguacate, Cuya, Cayo Levantado). — 

 Bond, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. SO, 1928, p. 499 (Haiti, Gonave, 

 Tortue). — Danforth, Auk, 1929, p. 366 (San Juan, Bonao, Fonds-des-Negres). — 

 Lonnberg, Fauna och Flora, 1929, p. 101 (Haiti, specimen). 



Resident; found locally in small numbers. 



The present species like the preceding is an inhabitant of forests 

 where it walks about on the ground, and is seen with difficulty ex- 

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