250 Bangs and Bradlee, Birds of Bermuda. \j\^ 



lished, the indigenous species have always been regarded as iden- 

 tical with continental birds. We have not had an opportunity of 

 comparing specimens of the Bermuda Crow or the Gallinule, but 

 of the other five resident birds all except the Bluebird are well 

 marked, easily recognized island species peculiar to Bermuda. 



The present joint article is the result of work done in the field 

 by Bradlee, who spent the entire season just past from November 

 till April at Hamilton, and had there excellent opportunities of 

 studying the birds in life. The specimens he took were sent to 

 Boston, most of them in the meat, and were critically compared by 

 Bangs, with their continental relatives. The work of both is com- 

 bined in the following short accounts of the different Bermuda 

 Land Birds. ^ 



Colinus virginianus (Linn.j. 



Quail ; Bob-white. 



Capt. Savile G. Reid, in his list of the Birds of Bermuda,^ says 

 the Quail was common prior to 1840, but became extinct in Ber- 

 muda about that time. It was reintroduced in 1858 or 1859. 



The Quail is not abundant in Bermuda ; two coveys were 

 seen during the season just past, and others were heard of. The 

 birds were very tame, and allowed themselves to be approached to 

 within a few yards without taking alarm. 



Columbigallina bermudiana Bangs 6^ Bradlee, sp. nov. 



Bermuda Ground Dove. 



Type, from Hamilton, Bermuda, $ adult. No. 39134 Coll. Museum of 

 Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Mass. Collected Jan. 30, i90i,bj T. S. 

 Bradlee. 



Characters. — Size very small, smaller than C. bahamensis Majnard ; 

 bill wholly black, exceedingly small and slender (more so than in any 

 other form of the C. passerina series) ; colors pale and ashy as in C. 



1 Measurements are in millimeters. Names of colors are those of Ridgway's 

 ' Nomenclature of Colors.' 



^ Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 25, Contributions to the Natural History of 

 the Bermudas, 1884, p. 226, 227. 



