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Dendrortyx barbatus Gould, Monogr. Odontoph., pt. 2, 1846, pi. 22 and text (Jalapa, 

 Veracruz, Mexico; coll. Berlin Museum). — Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 

 1859, 369 (Jalapa, Mexico ; spec). — Gray, List Birds Brit. Mus., pt. 5, Gallinae, 

 1867, 74.— SuMiCHRAST, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist, xii, 1868, 225 (alpine 

 region, Veracruz) ; Mem. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., i, 1869, 562 (alpine region 

 of Veracruz) ; La Naturaleza, ser. 1, v, 1882, 229 (alpine region of Orizaba). — 

 Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxii, 1893, 393 (Jalapa) ; Handb. Game 

 Birds, ii, 1897, 113 (monogr.). — Beristain and Laurencio, Mem. y Revista 

 Soc. Cient. "Antonio Alzate," vii, 1894, 219 (Orizaba). — Salvin and Godman, 

 Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, iii, 1903, 289 (Jalapa and Orizaba, Veracruz). — 

 Peters, Check-list Birds of World, ii, 1934, 42. — Hellmayr and Conover, Cat. 

 Birds Amer., i. No. 1, 1942, 225 (syn. ; distr.). 



[Dendrortyx] barbatus Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 272, No. 9773.— Sclater and 

 Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 138.— Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 44. 



D[cndrortyx] barbatus Reichenow, Die Vogel, i, 1913, 315. 



Dendrortyx barbata Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1857, 206 (Jalapa). — Baird, 

 List Described Birds Mexico, Central America, and West Indies not in Coll. 

 Smithsonian Inst., 1863, 6. 



DENDRORTYX MACROURA MACROURA (Jardine and Selby) 



Eastern Long-tailed Partridge 



Adult (sexes alike in color). — Broad forehead, supraorbital line, chin, 

 and upper throat black ; feathers of crown and occiput black broadly 

 tipped with distally widening tear-shaped spots of dull, rather pale, russet 

 to Mikado brown ; a broad white superciliary stripe on each side, the 

 feathers composing which are black basally and the posteriormost of 

 which have narrow terminal shaft marks of dull russet; feathers of hind 

 neck dark bright hazel to dark Sanford's brown edged termino-laterally 

 with white, and blackish basally, the more posterior feathers with the 

 white edges darkening to light mouse gray ; interscapulars dark bright 

 hazel to dark Sanford's brown broadly edged with neutral gray, the gray 

 areas, especially of the more posterior feathers, mottled with buffy brown 

 and blackish and with small white lateral flecks ; scapulars grayish buffy 

 brown, tipped and crossed by three to five more or less complete white 

 bars, each of which is proximally broadly bordered with dark fuscous to 

 black, the subterminal black area bent basally on the two sides enclosing 

 a median area of dull dark hazel, the grayish-brown areas of the feathers 

 finely speckled with black dots ; inner secondaries like the scapulars but 

 with the hazel reduced or wanting ; outer secondaries with the pale and 

 the black marking restricted to the outer edge of the outer webs, the 

 rest of the feathers being dark dull olive-brown only faintly mottled with 

 paler; primaries dark dull olive-brown, their outer webs faintly flecked 

 with light pinkish cinnamon ; lesser upper Mang coverts pale buffy brown 

 vermiculated sparingly with blackish; median upper wing coverts similar 

 but with faint hazel shaft lines and tipped with pale buffy brown to 

 almost white, the tip basally edged with blackish ; greater upper wing 

 coverts like the scapulars but with less whitish; alula dark dull olive- 



