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further distinguished by the narrower black collar on the lower throat. According to 
Mr. Nelson’ it inhabits the tableland of Mexico, from San Luis Potosi and Northern 
Jalisco to the Valley of Mexico. 
Like its allies, O. graysoni inhabits the open grassy country where there are patches 
of small trees and thickets of cacti. The neighbourhood of small streams appears to 
be a favourite resort, and it was on similar ground, near Guadalajara, that Grayson 2 
first met with the species in coveys, though he found it extremely local. 
4, Ortyx godmani. 
Colinus godmani, Nelson, Auk, xiv. p. 45°; xv. pp. 120, 121, t.2°; xix. t. 14. fig. 4°; Grant, Ibis, 
1902, p. 240%. 
Gula alba, pilci plumis nigris, brunneo vel griseo marginatis ; corporis lateribus castaneis, nigro marginatis, 
minime albo maculatis ; secundariis intimis albo nec fulvo maculatis. (Descr. ex scriptis E. W. Nelson.) 
Hab. Sovrn-EasterN Mexico, coast-plains about Jaltipan and Minatitlan, Vera Cruz, 
and thence north to Lake Catemaco (Nelson & Goldman), 
We have seen no specimens of this Colin, which Mr. Nelson! says is a very distinct 
species and one of the most beautiful in the genus. Five adult examples were 
obtained, but from the description alone it is somewhat difficult to determine its nearest 
ally. O. godmani is stated to be darker in colour than O. graysoni, but Mr. Ogilvie 
Grant* thinks that it must be very near O. cwbanensis. He observes +:—‘ The male 
appears to differ from the latter species chiefly in having the crown blackish, with 
brown and greyish edgings to the feathers; the sides, flanks, and belly chestnut, 
heavily margined with black, and devoid of white spots; and the tertials spotted with 
white instead of buff.” The throat and sides of the face are described as white, in 
which characters 0. godmani must resemble O. graysoni, but the “sides and lower 
portion of the neck, with the breast, are glassy black, the flanks, abdomen, and lower 
tail-coverts are light chestnut, with heavy black borders on the feathers of the flanks 
and abdomen!. In these respects the species apparently approaches O. cubanensis, as 
Mr. Grant observes, but it seems to be altogether a distinct form of Colin. 
Mr. Nelson? gives the range as the lowlands of Southern Vera Cruz, probably also 
passing into Tabasco, occurring from the sea-level to 1500 feet. In his interesting 
article (‘Auk,’ xv. pp. 115-121) on the Mexican species of ‘ Bob-White,” he relates 
that after travelling for some time in South-western Mexico, he took the train to the 
port of Coatzacoalcos, on the Gulf of Mexico, and ascended the river of the same 
name to the town of Minatitlan, a place once noted for its enormous trade in Spanish 
cedar and dye woods. Here he remained for some days in the midst of the coast 
lowlands, where the tropical forest is interrupted by grassy prairies of considerable 
extent. In visiting these prairies he was delighted to find a species of ‘* Bob-White ” 
hitherto unknown (0. godmani). He afterwards met with the same bird a few miles 
