PKKDiciD.f;. 405 



Genus EXCALFACTORIA. 



Bonaparte, Comptes llcndus, xlii. p. bbl (1^56). 



Excalfactoria australis. 



ExcaJfactoria australis, Gould, Handb. 13. Austr. ii. {>. 197(1805). 



The Least Swamp-Quail. 



Hah. Australia. 



2036. IStcrnuin, with sboulJer-girdle. From Pahuer, N. !S. 



Wales {E. P. Ramsmj). S. S. 1)33. 



Presented hy P. L. Sclater, Esq., F.P.S. 



Genus ORTYX. 

 Stephens, Gen. Zool. xi. p. 37(5(181ii). 



Ortyx virginianus *, 



Tetrao virginianus, Linnaeus, iSyst. Nat. i. p. 277 (1766). 

 Orti/x virginianus (L.), Baird, Brewer, and llidgway, N. Am. B. 

 iii, p. 468 (1874). 



The Virginian Quail. 



Uab. North Auierica. 



2037. Sternum, with slioukUsr-oirdie. S. S. 127'J. 



Presented hy tlie iSniithsonian InsfJtnfioii. 



Genus EUPSYCHORTYX. 



Gould, Monogr. Udontopb. p. 15, pi. 10 (1844). 



Eupsychortyx cristata. 



Tetrao cristatus, Linnaius, ^yst. Nat. i. p. 277 (1706). 

 J'Jujjsi/cJwrti/x cristata (L.), Gould, Monogr. Odontopborina:, ]A. [) 

 (1850). " 



The Crested Partridge. 



Plah. Mexico. 



2038. Sternum, with shoulder-^^irdle. S. S. 1006. Pan-hawd, 



* Cf. Shufeldt, Bull. U.S. Geol. & Geogr. Surv. Tcmt. \\. no. 2 Washing- 

 ton, Sept. 21, 1881 ("Description of Skeletons of North-American Penlicidcc"'). 



