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including cere, deep dull red ; tarsus and toes dull red with a grayish 

 cast; claws dusky. Danforth saw one at Fonds-des-Negres July 23, 

 1927. Bond in 1928 reports them as common in the arid regions of 

 Haiti and as particularly numerous on the islands of Gonave and 

 Tortue. He reports one flushed from an empty nest on Gonave 

 June 25, and found them breeding on Tortue in March. Natives 

 trapped them on Gonave Island in numbers, using corn or water as 

 bait. Bond reports the call as a booming note that is ventriloquial 

 in effect and so difficult to locate. Poole and Perrygo collected one 

 at L'Atalaye January 5, four at Cerca-la-Source March 22 and 26, 

 and one at Anse a Galets March 13, 1929. 



This quail-dove is reddish brown on back and wings, with the 

 crown and hindneck metallic green or blue according to the angle 

 of light, and the forehead brown. Below it is white on the throat, 

 with a malar stripe of brown, vinaceous drab on the breast, and 

 white on the abdomen. The wing-coverts are reddish brown brighter 

 in the male and duller in the female. 



OREOPELEIA LEUCOMETOPIUS Chapman 

 HISPANIOLAN QUAIL-DOVE, PERDIZ, PERDIZ CENIZA, PERDRIX GRIS 



Oreopeleia leucometopius Chapman, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 37, 

 May 14, 1917, p. 327 (Lonia Tina, Province of Azua, Dominican Republic). — 

 Bond, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 80, 1928, p. 521 (La Selle). 



Oreopeleia leucometopium, Ekman, Est. Agr. Moca, Ser. B. Bot., No. 15, 

 December, 1929, p. 5 (Loma de Jayaco). 



? Violet-winged pigeon, Saint-Mery, Descrip. Span. Part Saint-Domingo, 

 vol. 1, 1798, p. 305 (abundant). 



Blue ground pigeon, Beck, Nat. Hist., vol. 21, 1921, pp. 39, 41 (habits, col- 

 lecting). 



Resident in rain-forest of mountains of Dominican Republic. 



The present species was discovered in 1917 by R. H. Beck who 

 found it on the slopes of Loma Tina, near Tubano, and near Las 

 Cafiitas, the latter locality being on the Rio del Medio, a tributary 

 of Rio Yaque del Sur. Beck describes it as living on the ground 

 in dense forest and in habits more like a quail or partridge than 

 an ordinary pigeon. He secured an excellent series on Loma Tina 

 January 12, 15, 17, 22, and 27, and February 2, at Tubano February 

 10, 12, 13, 14, and 15, and at La Canita nearby March 9, 1917. The 

 type specimen, Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. No. 163,788, a male, taken on 

 Loma Tina January 27, 1917 (original no. 7089), has the following 

 measurements : wing 151.7, tail 76.6, culmen with cere 13.5 and tarsus 

 35.6 mm. Whether this is the " violet-winged pigeon " mentioned 

 long ago by Moreau Saint-Mery is not certain, but this is not impos- 

 sible. It is true that the wings of this quail-dove are not violet, but 



