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middle of upper throat whitish; breast and sides of lower neck between 

 tawny and cinnamon-rufous with faintly paler shafts ; upper abdomen, 

 sides similar but less rufescent, more ochraceous-tawny, the flanks and 

 under tail coverts as in the male; middle of abdomen whitish as in the 

 male. 



Natal down. — "Dark chestnut above, with a huffy line along either 

 side of the rump, bright buffy superciliary area, dark line through the 

 eye, red-brown bill, and somewhat clouded or mottled underparts" (ev 

 Sutton and Pettingill, Auk, lix, 1942, 13). 



Other plumages apparently unknown. 



Adult male. — Wing 129.5; tail 51.5; culmen from base 16.2; middle 

 toe without claw 29.4 mm. (1 specimen from Puebla; tarsi damaged). 



Adult female. — Wing 123.5-125.0; tail 47.2; culmen from base 16.7- 

 17.1; tarsus 32.4—32.6; middle toe without claw 26.7-27.7 mm. (2 speci- 

 mens from Mexico and Veracruz). 



Range. — Resident in the forests of the mountain slopes of eastern 

 Mexico, from southern TamauHpas (Gomez Farias) south to Veracruz 

 (Rio Seco, Jalapa, Atoyac, Cordoba, Hacienda de Los Atlixcos) and to 

 Puebla (Metlaetoyuca). 



Type locality. — Jalapa, Veracruz, Mexico. 



Ortyx thoracicus Gambel, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, iv, 1848, 77 (Jalapa, 

 Veracruz, e. Mexico ; coll. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia) ; Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 

 ser. 2, iii, 1849, 317, 318. 



Odontophortis thoracicus Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1856, 310 (Cordoba, 

 Veracruz). — Beristain and Laurencio, Mem. y Rev. Soc. Cient. "Antonio 

 Alzate," vii, No. 7-8, 1894, 218 (Veracruz). 



0[dontophorus] thoracicus Reichenow, Die Vogel, i, 1913, 316, part. 



[Odoniophorm] thoracicus Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 138, part. 



Dactylortyx thoracicus Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxii, 1893, 429, part 

 (Cordoba, Hacienda de Los Atlixcos and Atoyac, Veracruz) ; Handb. Game 

 Birds, ii, 1897, 150.— Nelson, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, xii, 1898, 65 (descr. 

 of type, from Jalapa). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, iii, 1903, 

 308, part (Hacienda de Los Atlixcos, Cordoba, Jalapa, and Atoyac, Veracruz). — 

 Sutton and Burleigh, Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. Louisiana Stale Univ., No. 3, 

 1939, 28 (Gomez Farias, Tamaulipas). 



[Dactylortyx] thoracicus Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 46, part. 



Dactylortyx thoracicus thoracicus Peters, Check-list Birds World, ii, 1934, 56 

 (distr.).— Hellmayr and Conover, Cat. Birds Amer., i. No. 1, 1942, 281 (syn. ; 

 distr.).— Sutton and Pettingill, Auk, lix, 1942, 12 (Gomez Farias region, 

 southwestern Tamaulipas; habits; descr. of downy young; spec). 



DACTYLORTYX THORACICUS DEVIUS Nelson 



Jaliscan Long-toed Quail 



Adult ww/^.— Similar to that of the nominate race but with many black- 

 ish or fuscous-blackish transverse markings on the interscapulars and 

 with the middle of the abdomen huffy instead of whitish; the tawny- 



