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Dcndrortyx macmnis Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, iii, 1903, 287, 

 part (Guerrero; Miclioacan). 



Dendrortyx macrourtis striahis Nelson, Auk, xiv, 1897, 44 (Chilpancingo, Guerrero, 

 sw. Mexico, coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). — Ogilvie-Grant, Ibis, 1902, 237.— Griscom, 

 Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., Ixxv, 1934, 422 (Guerrero). 



D[e)idrortyx] macrourus slriatus Nelson, Auk, xix, 1902, 388. — Salvin and God- 

 man, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, iii, 1903, 288, in text (crit.). 



Dendrortyx macroiira striatus Peters, Check-list Birds of World, ii, 1934, 42. — 

 Griscom, Auk, liv, 1937, 192, (Omilteme, Guerrero, spec; crit.). — Hellmayr 

 and Conover, Cat. Birds. Amer., i, No. 1, 1942, 226 (syn. ; distr.). 



D[ciidrortyx\ m[acroura] striatus Friedmann, Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., xxxiii, 

 1943, 272 in text, 273 in text (crit.). 



[Dendrortyx] striatus Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 43. 



Dendrortyx macrourus dilutus Nelson, Auk, xvii, 1900, 254 (Patzcuaro, Michoacan, 

 sw. Mexico; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.).— Ogilvie-Grant, Ibis, 1902, 237. 



D[endrortyx] mucroiirus dilutus Nelson, Auk, xix, 1902, 388. 



Dendrortyx macroura dilutus Peters, Check-list Birds of World, ii, 1934, 42. 



DENDRORTYX MACROURA OAXACAE Nelson 



Oaxaca Long-tailed Partridge 



Adult. — Similar to that of the nominate race but with the superciHary 

 and malar stripes not white and conspicuous but heavily suffused with 

 brownish, reducing markedly the contrast between them and the adjacent 

 hazel areas, and with the broad brown shaft stripes on the breast and 

 hindneck and interscapulars darker — bright argus brown to almost chest- 

 nut, and with the back, rump, and upper tail coverts less barred with 

 blackish, more like )D. m. diversus in these parts. 



Other plumages unknown. 



Adidt male. — Wing 156; tail 140; culmen from the base 19.5; tarsus 

 49; middle toe without claw 38 mm. (1 specimen, the type). 



Adult female. — Wing 152; tail 122; culmen from the base 19.7; tarsus 

 50; middle toe without claw 37 mm. (1 specimen). 



Range. — Resident in the mountain forests of eastern Oaxaca from 

 the Cerro San Felipe, near Oaxaca City, to Mount Zempoaltepec. 



Type locality. — Totontepec, Oaxaca, Mexico. 



Dendrortyx oaxacae Nelson, Auk, xiv, 1897, 43 (Totontepec, Oaxaca; coll. U. S. 



Nat. Mus.); xix, 1902, 388 (crit.).— Ogilvie-Grant, Ibis, 1902, 237. 

 D[endrortyx] oaxacae Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, iii, 1903, 288, 



in text (crit.). 

 [Dendrorty.v] oaxacae Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 43. 

 Dendrortyx macrourus Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxii, 1893, 392, part 



(Tonaguia, Oaxaca). 

 Dendrortyx macrurus Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, iii, 1903, 287, 



part (e. Oaxaca). 

 Dendrortyx macroura oaxacae Peters, Check-list Birds of World, ii, 1934, 43. — 



Hellmayr and Conover, Cat. Birds Amer. i. No. 1, 1942, 226 (syn.; distr.). 

 [Dendrortyx macroura] oaxacae Griscom, Auk, liv, 1937, 192 in text. 



