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Adult imle.—Wmg 99.4-105.1 (102.6) ; tail 59.7-63.2 (61.7) ; culrhen 

 from base 14.4-15.0 (14.8; tarsus 28.1 ; middle toe without claw 23.2-24.0 

 (23.6mm.).^'0 



Adult female.— Wmg 97.1-101.1 (98.7) ; tail 53.1-62.7 (57.6) ; culmen 

 from base 14.1-14.8 (14.4) ; tarsus 27.1-28.4 (27.7) ; middle toe without 

 claw 21.4-23.6 (22.5 mm.).^! 



Range. — Resident in southern Guatemala from the Upper Motagua 

 Valley to the Departments of Jalapa and Baja Vera Paz. 



Type locality. — Saloma, Baja Vera Paz, Guatemala. 



Eupsychortyx hypolcucns Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxii, 1893, 413, 



part (San Geronimo, Vera Paz, Guatemala). — Beristain and Laurencio, Mem. 



y Rev. Soc. Cient. "Antonio Alzate," vii, Nos. 7, 8, 1894, 219 (Mexico; Chiapas 



and Tabasco). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, iii, 1903, 297, 



part (San Geronimo, Guatemala). 

 [Eupsychortyx] hypoleucus Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 138. — 



Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 45 (Guatemala). 

 Ortyx hypolciictis Gray, List Birds Brit. Mus., pt. 5, 1867, "77 (Mexico). 

 [Orty.v] hypoleucus Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 273, No. 9789 (Mexico). 

 Eupsychortyx Icacopogon (not Orty.v leucopogaii Lesson) Salvin and Sclater, 



Ibis, 1860, 277 (San Geronimo, Guatemala). 

 Colinus leucopogon hypoleucus Dickey and van Rossem, Condor, xxxii, 1930, 73, 



part (Guatemala). — Griscom, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., Ixiv, 1932, 106. 



(Guatemala; distr.). — Peters, Check-list Birds World, ii, 1934, SO, part 



(Guatemala). 

 [Colinus] [leucopogon] hypoleucus Sassi, Temminckia, iii, 1938, 305, in text, part 



(Guatemala). 

 Colinus cristatus hypoleucus Hellmayr and Conover, Cat. Birds Amer., i, No. 1, 



1942, 249, part (syn.; distr.). 

 Colinus leucopogon incanus Friedmann, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, Ivii, 1944, 



16 (Saloma, Baja Vera Paz, Guatemala; orig. descr.). 



COLINUS CRISTATUS SONNINI (Temminck) 



SONNINI'S BoBWHITE 



Adult male. — Forehead, lores, and anterior part of crown varying from 

 bufiFy whitish to pale bufify brown or grayish brown ; the posterior coronal 

 area with the dusky basal parts of the feathers showing through occa- 

 sionally, giving a transversely marked appearance, crest darker — dull 

 sepia to fairly pale bister — the feathers edged with huffy brown -to al- 

 most buckthorn brown ; sides of crown and occiput edged with feathers 

 that are black on their inner webs, edged with buffy white, and light 

 ochraceous-tawny on their outer w^bs ; broad superciliaries bright 

 ochraceous-tawny to ochraceous-orange ; feathers of nape streaked with 

 black ; a nuchal collar of snuff-brown feathers with large subterminal 

 white spots edged with black ; interscapulars and upper back cinnamon 

 coarsely vermiculated with black, each feather edged with mouse gray ; 



' Three specimens, including the type. 

 Four specimens. 



