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probably extinct).— Gardner, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Ixvii, art. 19, 1925, pi. 8 

 (structure of tongue).— Wetmore and Swales, U. S. Nat Mus., Bull. 155, 

 1931, 124 (habits; distr.; Hispaniola) .—Peters, Check-list Birds World, ii, 

 1934, 47.— Bond, Birds West Indies, 1936, 414; Check-list Birds West Indies, 

 1940, 27 (Cuba and Isle of Pines; introduced in Dominican Republic, and 

 Puerto Rico where now extirpated). — Hellmayr and Conover, Cat. Birds 

 Amer., i. No. 1, 1942, 241 (sya; distr.). 



Colimis vlirginianus] cubanensis Stoddard, The Bobwhite Quail, 1931, 61 (hunted 

 with dogs). 



C[olinus\ lArginianus cubanensis Ridgway, Man. North Amer. Birds, 1887, 188, 

 part (Cuba) ; ed. 2, 1895, 188, exclusively. 



C[olinus] vlirginianus] cubanensis Seth-Smith, L'Oiseau, x, 1929, 763, in text 

 (care in captivity).— Bond, Birds West Indies, 1936, 81 in text, 82, in text 

 (descr. ; Cuba; Isle of Pines; Dominican Republic (introduced; Puerto Rico 

 (introduced, now extirpated)). 



[Ortyx] cubensis Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 137. 



Colinus cubensis Balboa, Las Aves de Cuba, 1941, 201 (Cuba; descr.; habits). 



COLINUS VIRGINIANUS MACULATUS Nelson 



Spotted-bellied Bobwhite 



Adult male. — Similar to that of Colinus virginianus texanus but with 

 the entire lower surface posterior to the black pectoral band ochraceous- 

 tawny instead of white and with no dark transverse wavy bars, but the 

 feathers with black and white elongated spots on their lateral edges near 

 their tips, these spots, especially the white ones, largest and most numer- 

 ous on the thighs, flanks, and under tail coverts; above like the Texas 

 race but darker, the interscapulars and upper back more clearly dull russet, 

 less obscured by grayish transverse markings, crown and postocular stripe 

 more blackish; back, lower back, and upper tail coverts with the dark 

 blotches larger and darker — dark sepia to mummy brown, and the rest 

 of the plumage of these areas less grayish, more brownish. 



Adult jemale.—SvmWzT to that of Colinus virginianus texanus but 

 darker above, the dark markings larger and deeper, the rufescent areas 

 more clouded and blotched with dusky grayish (this is especially true of 

 the crown, occiput, interscapulars, and upper back) ; below with a some- 

 what darker pectoral band of ochraceous-fawn color spotted with blackish 

 and white. 



Other plumages apparently not known. 



Adult male.—Wmg 100-104.5 (102.7); tail 52.5-60 (55.5); culmen 

 from base 15.2-16.3 (15.6) ; tarsus 28.2-32.4 (30.3) ; middle toe without 

 claw 25-27.4 (21.9 mm.)." 



Adult female.— Wing 100-107 (104.3); tail 51-58 (53.8); culmen 

 from base 15.2-15.9 (15.5); tarsus 29-31 (30.2); middle toe without 

 claw 24.3-25.9 (25.4mm.)." 



" Fifteen specimens from Tamaulipas, Veracruz, and San Luis Potosi. 

 " Five specimens from Tamaulipas. 



