BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA 3'4l 



Oaxaca) ; Handb. Game Birds, ii, 1897, IA4. — Beristain and Laurencio, Mem. 



y Rev. Soc. Gent. "Antonio Alzate," vii, 1894, 219 (Mexico, se. coast). — 



Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, iii, 1903, 303 (Tehuantepec 



Git}', Juchitan, Tapana, Santa Efigenia, and Cacoprieto, Oaxaca; Tonala, n. 



Chiapas). 

 [Ortyx] coyolcos Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 137. 

 C[oHmis] coyolcos Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., i, 1886, 290, in text (crit.).— 



RiDGWAY, Man. North Amer. Birds, 1887, 189. 

 Colinus coyolcos Nelson, Auk, xv, 1898, 117, in text, 121 (Pacific coast, Oaxaca 



and Chiapas; Tehuantepec City to Tonala, sea level to 3,000 feet). 

 [Colimts] coyolcos Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 46. 

 Colinus virginiamts coyolcos Bangs and Peters, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., Ixviii, 



1928, 386 (Tapanatepec, Oaxaca, Mexico). — Peters, Check-list Birds of World, 



ii, 1934, 49 (Pacific coast of Oaxaca and Chiapas from the City of Tehuantepec 



to Tonala). — Hellmayr and Conover, Cat. Birds Amer., i. No. 1, 1942, 246 



(syn. ; distr.). 

 C[olinus] v[irginianus] coyolcos Bangs and Peters, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., Ixviii, 



1928, 386, in text. — Brodkorb, Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, No. 467, 



1942, 1, in text, 4, in key. 

 Ortyx nigrogiilaris (not of Gould) Gray, List Birds Brit. Mus., pt. 3, Gallinae, 



1844, 44. 



COLINUS VIRGINIANUS SALVINI Nelson 



Salvin's Bobwhite 



Adult male. — The darkest of all the races of the species ; above very 

 similar to the male of Colinus virginianus insignis but darker, the head 

 vinth less rufescent, more solidly fuscous to fuscous-black, the rufescent 

 median areas of the interscapulars between dark hazel and Sanford's 

 brown ; the blackish markings on the wings, back, rump, and upper tail 

 coverts larger and less mixed with rufescent, the ground color of these 

 areas duskier ; entire head, chin, and throat dark fuscous to fuscous-black 

 with an interrupted, narrow, white postocular line on each side ; the 

 feathers of the occiput and nape with narrow whitish edges ; the blackish 

 brown of the throat extends over the entire breast, where the feathers 

 have narrow cinnamon to hazel shaft streaks ; abdomen, sides, and flanks 

 uniform hazel, vent and under tail coverts barred with black and white. 



Adult female. — Similar to that of C. v. insignis but generally darker, 

 more grayish, less brownish above, the interscapulars, back, lower back, 

 and rump deep hair brown edged with dusky smoke gray and subterminally 

 blotched very extensively with chaetura drab to chaetura black, the more 

 posterior parts with a considerable mixture of dark olive-brown ; the dark 

 markings on the underside heavier, darker, and more numerous. 



Other plumages apparently unknown. 



Adult male.— Wing 91.5-96 (93.8); tail 48.5-53.5 (51.1); culmen 

 from base 14.5-15.8 (15.2) ; tarsus 2^28.3 (26.9) ; middle toe without 

 claw 21.5-25.6 (23.8 mm.).^^ 



'° Seven specimens. 

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