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« dry on the Birds of tftc West Indies. 



July 



Ortyx cubanensis Gould, Mon. Odont. (1S50). — Cab. J. f. O. 1S56, p. 337. 

 — Brewer, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. VII, p. 307 (1S60). — Albrecht, 

 J. f. O. 1S61, p. 213. — Gundl. Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, I, p. 303 

 (1S66).— Gray, Handl. Bds. II, p. 273 (1870).— Gundl. J. f. O. 1S74, 

 p. 300; ib. 1S75, p. 293; ib. 1S78, p. 161; ib. Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. 

 Nat. VII, p. 350(1878). 



Ortyx cubensis Scl. & Salv. Nom. Avium Neotr. p. 137 (1S73). 



Ortyx Virginian us var. cubanensis Bd. Bwr. & Ridgvv. Hist. N. Am. Bds. 

 Ill, p. 46S (1874). 



Colinus cubanensis Cory, List Bds. W. I. p. 24 (1885). 



Sp. Char. — Upper portions of throat and superciliary stripe white; band 

 of neck passing from the mandible, under the eve, down the sides of 

 the neck; breast and lower portion of throat black; back chestnut, 

 variegated with dull brown; the feathers on the nape heavily spotted 

 with white; under parts variegated, dull brown, rufous, white, and 

 dark brown; sides of the body dull rufous, heavily spotted with 

 white and black: primaries dull brown. 



The female differs from the male in having the white stripe and 

 throat tawny buff, and in lacking the chestnut on the breast to a 

 great extent. 



Length, 8; wing, 4; tail, 2.50: tarsus, 1 ; hill, .45. 

 Habitat. Cuba and Porto Rico. 



Colinus virginianus (Linn.). 



Tetrao virginianus Linn. Syst. Nat. I, p. 277 (1766). 



Ortyx virginiana Gosse, Bds. Jam. p. 32S (1S47). — Cory, Bull. Nutt. 

 Orn. Club, VI, p. 154 (18S1) (Haiti). 



Ortyx virginianus A. & E. Newton, Ibis, 1859, p. 254 (St. Croix). — Bry- 

 ant, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. VII, p. 120 (1S59) (Bahamas).— Scl. 

 P. Z. S. 1S61, p. So (Jamaica). — Albrecht, J. f. O. 1862, p. 205 

 (Jamaica). — March. Pr. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1863, p. 303 

 (Jamaica). — Lawr. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. I, pp. 237, 4S7 (1S7S) (An- 

 tigua). — Cory - , Bds. Bahama I. p. 142 (1SS0). — A. & E. Newton, 

 Handb. Jamaica, p. 117 (1SS1). — Cory, Bds. Haiti & San Domingo, 

 p. 138 (18S5). 



Colinus virginianus Cory, List Bds. W.I. p. 24 (1885). 



Sp. Char. Male: — Above rich brownish red, mottled with black; crown 

 black, shading into brown at the base of the skull, and mottled with 

 black and white on the nape; a white superciliary line passing from 

 nostril to nape ; throat white, bordered broadly with black; upper 

 breast and sides reddish brown, shading into white on the belly, the 

 feathers thickly banded with black; crissum reddish brown ; tertials 

 and some of the wing-coverts edged with yellowish white; bill en- 

 tirely black. 



