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distally attenuated blackish shaft stripes and broadly tipped with white, 

 the white area divided into two spots by the shaft stripe. 



Natal down (sexes alike). — Forehead and broad superciliary area pale 

 clay color paling to pinkish buff posteriorly on the nape ; center of crown 

 and forehead and a wide spinal band extending to the tail chestnut-brown 

 indistinctly edged with clove brown; rest of upperparts light pinkish 

 cinnamon with a faint grayish tinge, mottled with dark clove brown to 

 fuscous ; a narrow fuscous line from the back of the eye to the side of the 

 nape; sides of head pale dusty pinkish buflf; chin, throat, and abdomen 

 white; breast, sides, flanks, thighs and vent washed with dusty light 

 pinkish cinnamon; bill and feet (in dried skin) yellowish. 



Adult male.—Wmg 95-103.5 (98.3) ; tail 50-58.5 (54.6) ; culmen from 

 base 14.7-16 (15.4); tarsus 27.1-32 (29.1); middle toe without claw 

 23.9-26.6 (25.3 mm.). 35 



Adult jemale.—Wmg9S-\0?>.S (98.5) ; tail 50-58 (54.2) ; culmen from 

 base 14.5-16.3 (15.1) ; tarsus 27.2-31.1 (29.2) ; middle toe without claw 

 24.5-26.2 (25.2 mm.). 3« 



Range. — Resident throughout Yucatan (Merida, Chichen Itza, Chable, 

 Tizimin, etc.) and Campeche (Campeche), except for the arid area 

 around Progreso. 



Type locality. — Chichen Itza, Yucatan. 



Ortyx nigrogularis Gould, Monogr. Odontoph., pt. 2, 1846, pi. 4 and text, part 



(Yucatan).— Gray, Gen. Birds, iii, 1846, 514, pi. 132; List Birds Brit. Mus., pt. 



5, Gallinae, 1867, 76.— Lawrence, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. New York, ix, 1869, 209 



(Merida, Yucatan). — Nehrkorn, Journ. fiir Orn., 1881, 69 (Yucatan; descr. 



eggs). — BoucARD, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1883, 461 (Chable, Yucatan; habits). 



— Beristain and Laurencio, Mem. y Rev. Soc. Cient. "Antonio Alzate," vii, 



1894, 219 (Yucatan). 

 [Ortyx] nigrogularis Reichenbach, Synop. Av., iii, 1848, Gallinaceae, pi. 193, fig. 



1681. — Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 137, part (Yucatan). 

 Ortyx nigrigularis Sclater and Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 225, part (Yucatan). 

 0[rtix] nigrogularis Cubas, Cuadro Geogr., Estadistico, Descr., e Hist, de los 



Estados Unidos Mexicanos, 1884, 175 (common names, Mexico). 

 Eupsychortyx nigrogularis Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxii, 1893, 412, 



part (Tizimin, Buctzotz, Chable, Pete, and Merida, Yucatan). — Salvin and 



GoDMAN, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, iii, 1903, 297, part (Chable, Tizimin, 



Buctzotz, Peto, Merida, and Izamal, Yucatan). — Cole, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 



1, 1906, 115, part (Chichen Itza, Yucatan). 

 [Eupsychortyx] nigrigularis Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 45, part (Yucatan). 

 Colinus nigrogularis Chapman, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., viii, 1896, 289 



(Chichen Itza; habits; notes). — Nelson, Auk, xv, 1898, 122 (Yucatan). 

 [Colinus] nigrogularis Griscom, Amer. Mus. Nov., No. 379, 1929, 2, in text (crit.). 

 Colinus nigrogularis nigrogularis Peters, Check-list Birds World, ii, 1934, 49. — 



Traylor, Publ. Field Mus. Nat. Hist, zool. ser., xxiv, 1941, 204 (Chichen 



" Twenty specimens. 

 " Ten Specimens. 



