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cept when it is in flight. It is not restricted to areas of consider- 

 able rainfall, however, and can accommodate its environmental needs 

 to limited tracts of semi-arid scrub so that though perhaps seeming 

 less abundant in numbers than the ruddy quail-dove it has a much 

 wider range. Hartert informs us that Kaempfer collected a num- 

 ber for the Tring Museum at altitudes ranging from 30 to 500 meters 

 near Tubano in the province of Azua, between August 9 and 17, 

 1923. These include two juveniles taken August 12 and 13, which 

 offer some clue to the breeding season in that locality. Cherrie saw 

 only one, which had been killed by a native at Aguacate. Verrill 

 secured one on Cayo Levantado, opposite Samana, which Hartert 

 tells us is now in the Tring Museum, and was taken February 15, 

 1907. Peters secured one in rather open woodland at Arroyo Salado, 

 March 7, 1916, and says that there is one in the Museum of Compara- 

 tive Zoology shot at Puerto Plata by M. Abbott Frazar, January 

 16, 1883. Cory lists one taken at Puerto Plata, December 18, 1882. 

 W. L. Abbott has reported it from the Dominican Republic in his 

 manuscript notes but does not cite definite localities. Beck col- 

 lected a series of twenty-seven skins near Tubano from February 

 3 to 15, 1917. Danforth shot one near San Juan July 10, and saw 

 one near Bonao August 7, 1927. 



There are numerous records for Haiti. Descourtilz mentions it in 

 1809, and it is included among other species sent by John Hearne in 

 1834 to the Zoological Society of London. Hitter records taking 

 one, and two secured by A. E. Younglove in 1866 were sent to the 

 Smithsonian, a male from " Le Coup " (Petionville) February 19, 

 and a female from near Port-au-Prince, May 9, these being the two 

 listed by Bryant from Port-au-Prince. The first of these Younglove 

 specimens is still in the United States National Museum. W. L. 

 Abbott secured three at an elevation of 300 meters near Bombard- 

 opolis on March 24, 26, 1917. He saw a quail-dove on Tortue Island 

 which he believed to be this species, in which in all probability he 

 was correct, since the forest there seems too dry to favor the occur- 

 rence of O. montana. Wetmore collected an adult female in the 

 Ravine Papaye, near Hinche April 22, 1927, and on the following 

 day heard two calling in the dense, hot scrub in that vicinity, the 

 note being a low, resonant coo, suggestive of that of the ruddy quail- 

 dove but with a different pitch and far less carrying power so that 

 it was audible only to a distance of less than one hundred yards. 

 The bird taken flushed with a loud rustling of wings at the edge of 

 a dry water course and flew rapidly. When first taken the iris was 

 dull red, with the inner margin honey yellow; margins of lids and 

 bare skin about eye dull red; distal half of bill dusky; basal half, 



