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Range (Florida Keys and West Indies)

Florida Keys and West Indies.

Nest, in trees. Eggs, two, ochraceous-white, 1.22 × 94 (Bendire). A West Indian species which occurs during the summer regularly, but, so far as known, only in small numbers in the Florida Keys. The Quail Doves inhabit wooded districts, where they live on the ground. Their flight is low and noiseless, and, according to my ex- VULTURES. perience with them in Cuba, they are difficult birds to observe unless one can find some tree on the fallen fruits of which they are feeding. The RUDDY QUAIL DOVE (322.1. Geotrygon montana) is a West Indian and Central American species, which has been once recorded from Key West (Atkins, Auk, vi, 1889, p. 160). It bears a general resemblance to the preceding, but the back is more rufous and the belly is deep cream-buff. The BLUE-HEADED QUAIL DOVE (323. Starnœnas cyanocephala), a Cuban species, is of accidental occurrence in the Florida Keys. The back is olivebrown, the crown and sides of the throat are deep grayish blue, throat black, line beneath the eye white.