BIRDS OP NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA 353 



i, No. 1, 1942, 248 (syn. ; distr. ; Honduras, Guatemala, British Honduras). — 



Van Tyne and Trautman, Occ. Papers Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, No. 439, 



1941, 3, in text. 

 Colinus nigrogularis nigrogularis Van Tyne and Trautman, Occ. Papers Mus, 



Zool. Univ. Michigan, No. 439, 1941, 6 (Honduras; Segovia River; Guatemala, 



La Libertad). 

 Eiipsychortyx nigrogularis (not Ortyx nigrogularis Gould) Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. 



Birds Brit. Mus., xxii, 1893, 412, part (Honduras). — Salvin and Godman, 



Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, iii, 1903, 297, part (Rio Segovia, Honduras; Belize, 



British Honduras). 

 [Eiipsychortyx] nigrigularis Sharpe, Handlist, i, 1899, 45, part (Honduras ; British 



Honduras). 

 Colinus nigrogularis coffini Nelson, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, xlv, 1932, 169 



(La Libertad, Peten, Guatemala; descr. ; crit.). — Peters, Check-list Birds World, 



ii, 1934, 49 (Brit. Honduras and the Peten district). — Van Tyne and Trautman, 



Occ. Papers Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, No. 439, 1941, 3, in text (crit.). 

 [Colinus] [nigrogularis] coffini Van Tyne, Misc. Publ. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 



No. 27, 1935, 12, in text (crit.). 

 C[allipepla] nigrogularis Reichenow, Die Vogel, i, 1913, 317. 



COLINUS LEUCOPOGON LEYLANDI Moore 



Leyland's Quail 



Adult male. — Forehead and crown between Sayal brown and snuff 

 brown, becoming tawny to ochraceous-tawny on the occiput; center of 

 crown dusky; nape like the occiput with large white spots, edged with 

 black on the lateral feathers, this black and white less pronounced on the 

 medial ones ; interscapulars and upper back Saccardo's umber finely ver- 

 miculated with black and narrowly tipped with grayish ; scapulars, inner 

 greater upper wing coverts, and inner secondaries similar but heavily 

 blotched with fuscous to fuscous-black and distomedially suffused with 

 cinnamon-brown, the scapulars and inner secondaries internally broadly 

 edged with buffy white; rest of upper wing coverts Saccardo's umber 

 somewhat indistinctly and rather sparsely vermiculated with dusky, some 

 of the interspaces paler and huffier than the ground color of the feathers 

 producing faint paler cross bands ; secondaries dark clove brown, thickly 

 flecked along their outer edges with pale buffy brown and whitish, the 

 latter color forming incomplete bars which are proximally bordered with 

 relatively unflecked dark clove brown, both webs very narrowly edged 

 with whitish ; primaries uniform dark clove brown ; feathers of back and 

 rump Saccardo's umber heavily blotched with fuscous to fuscous-black and 

 finely flecked with grayish white, the dark blotches becoming smaller on 

 the rump feathers; upper tail coverts like the rump but with the dark 

 blotches compressed into shaft stripes ; rectrices deep mouse gray to hair 

 brown transversely flecked and mottled with paler, forming indistinct ir- 

 regular barrings; lores, a broad superciliary, and a broad malar stripe on 

 each side white somewhat tinged with pale buff, many of the component 



