952 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



Type /oca/;7y.— Jalapa, Nicaragua. 



Dendrortyx leucophrys (not of Gould) Salvin and Gobmak Biol. Centr -Amer 

 Aves iii 1903 289, part (Panajachel, Solola, Pacific Cordillera ot Guatemala). 



Dendrortyx 'leucophrys leucophrys Hellmayr and Conover, Cat. Birds Amer., ., 

 No. 1, 1942, 227 part (syn.; distr. ; Honduras, Nicaragua 



Dendrortyx leucophrys nicaragrute Peters, Check-list Birds of Work, u 1934 43. _ 

 DicKEv and van Rossem, Birds El Salvador. 1938, 156 (El Salvador-Volcan 

 de San Miguel, Mount Cacaguatique, and Los Esesmiles; spec; habits; colors 

 of soft parts; crit.).-WETMORE, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Ixxxix, 1941, 534 

 (Sierra Santa Elena, west-central Guatemala; spec; crit.). -Hellmayr and 

 Conover, Cat. Birds Amer., i. No. 1, 1942, 227 (syn. ; distr. )^ 



Dendrortvx leucophrys nicaraguce Miller and Griscom, Amer. Mus. Nov. No 83, 

 1925 "l (Jalapa. Nicaragua, alt. 4,000 feet; type in Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist.).- 

 Griscom, Ibis, 1935, 549 (Panajachel, Solola, Pacific Cordillera of Guatemala; 



DendTortyx l\e,>cophrys] nicaraguce Milled and Griscom, Amer. Mus. Nov., No. 

 183, 1925, 2 (Jalapa). 



DENDRORTYX LEUCOPHRYS HYPOSPODIUS Salvin 



CosTA Rican Long-tailed Partridge 

 ^j,,/^_Similar to that of D. leucophrys nlcaraguac but with the 

 median streaks on the feathers of the lower throat and breast much 

 darker-dark bay edged broadly with black; the streaks thinnmg out to 

 narrow blackish shaft lines on the feathers of the abdomen, only the 

 feathers of the sides and flanks with tawny to ochraceous-tawny shaft 

 streaks; and the gray tone of the underparts generally darker-neutral 

 eray to deep neutral gray. 



First winter plumage. Sm^W^r to that of D. leucophrys mcaragme hut 

 generally darker and without the tawny shaft stripes on the feathers 

 of the sides and abdomen, the median stripes on the breast feathers nar- 

 rower and darker— dark bay narrowly edged with black. 



Other plumages apparently unknown. .. ,..^on i 



Adult Lle.-Wing 149.9-160 (152.4) ; tail 132.4-145 (137.8) ; cu men 

 from the base 19.1-20.3 (19.9) ; tarsus 51.7-55 (53) ; middle toe without 

 claw 41.1-41.5 (41.2 mm.).^« .. ..^,i.orx i „ 



Adult jemale.-Wing 143-153 (147.1) ; tail 11(>-157 (132.5) ; culmen 

 from base 19.9-20.9 (20.4) ; tarsus 50.3-51.8 (50.9) ; middle toe without 

 claw 39.9-40.4 (40.1 mm.). ^1 .ai- i 



;.,,„,;, -Resident in the higher mountains of Costa Rica (Alajuela, 

 Azahar de Cartago, Dota, Estrella de Cartago, La Palma de San Jose, 

 Las Cruces de Candelaria, Poas, Volcan de Irazu, Agua Cahente, Pacaca, 



Navarro). 



Type locality.— Azahhv de Cartago, Costa Rica. 



" Six specimens. 

 " Five specimens. 



