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Range. — Resident in the mountain forests of the Valley of Mexico 

 and the highlands of Veracruz. 



Ty[^c locality. — Mexico = mountains about the Valley of Mexico. 



Oriy.v macroura Jardine and Selby, Illiistr. Orn., i, pt. 3, 1828, pis. 38, 49 and text 



(Mexico).— Tardine, Nat. Libr., Orn., iv, 1834, 128, pi. 12. 

 Deitdrortyx iiiacrurus Gould, Monogr. Odontoph., pt. 1, 1844, pi. 20 and text. — 



ScLATER, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1864, 178 (near City of Mexico). — Gray, 



List Birds Brit. Mus., Gallinae, 1867, 73. — Beristain and Laurencio, Mern. 



3' Rev. Soc. Cient. "Antonio Alzate," vii, 1894, 219 (Orizaba). — Ogilvie-Grant, 



Ibis, 1902, 237. — Salxin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Avcs, iii, 1903, 287, 



part (alpine region of Orizaba, Veracrnz). 

 [Dendrortyx] macrums Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 272, No. 9771. — Sclater and 



Salvin, Norn. Av. Neotr., 1873, 138, part.— Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 43, part. 

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



part (in synonymy; descr.?). — Nelson, Auk, xiv, 1897, 4-1, in text (crit.). 

 D[cudrortyx] macrourus Reichenow, Die Vogel, i, 1913, 315. 

 Dendrortyx macrorus Ogilvie-Grant, Handb. Game Birds, ii, 1897, 112 part (s. 



Mexico; highlands of Oaxaca). 

 [Odoittophorus] macrourus Reichenbach, Synop. Av., iii, 1848, pi. 194, figs. 1692, 



1693. 

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



Hellmayr and Conover, Cat. Birds Amer., i, No. 1, 1942, 225 (.syn. ; distr.). 

 {Dendrortyx macroura] macroura Griscom, Auk, liv, 1937, 192, in text (crit.). 

 Tctrao marmoratus La Leave, Registro Trimestro, i, 1832, 144 (mountains near 



City of Mexico) ; La Naturaleza, vii, 1884, App., p. 65. 



DENDRORTYX MACROURA GRISEIPECTUS Nelson 



Gray-breasted Long-tailed Partridge 



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

 stripes of the breast feathers confined to the basal two-thirds or less of 

 the feathers, and almost hidden by the overlapping of these feathers, giving 

 the breast a nearly uniform deep gull gray ; the hazel stripes of the 

 feathers of the sides also greatly reduced ; back and rump slightly more 

 olivaceous. 



Other plumages unknown. 



Adult. — Wing 167; tail 145; culmen from base 19.5; tarsus 54; middle 

 toe without claw 42 mm. (tyi>e). 



Adidt female.- — Wing 157; tail 131 ; culmen from base 20; tarsus 54; 

 middle toe without claw 40 mm. (1 specimen). 



Range. — Known only from the heavy oak forest on the Pacific slope 

 of the Cordillera, in the State of Morelos (and possibly in the State of 

 Mexico as well). 



Tyl^e locality. — Huitzilac, Morelos, Mexico. 



Dendrortyx macrurus (not Ortyx macroura Jardine and Selby) Salvin and Godman, 

 Biol. Centr.-Atner., Aves, iii, 1903, 287, part (Morelos). 



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