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D[actylortyx] devius Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, iii, 1903, 308, 



part, in text (crit.). 

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

 Dactylortyx thoracictis devius Peters, Check-list Birds World, ii, 1934, 56 (distr.). — 



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



DACTYLORTYX THORACICUS LINEOLATUS (Gould) 



Oaxacan Long-toed Quail 



Adult male. — Similar to that of the nominate race but with the lower 

 back, rump, and upper tail coverts slightly darker, less buffy; the lateral 

 feathers of the occiput with their shaft stripes or their outer webs deep 

 warm buff, not white, with the shaft stripes of the feathers of the breast, 

 sides, and flanks much wider and slightly washed with buffy, the general 

 tone of the sides, flanks, thighs, and under tail coverts less tawny or 

 rufescent, somewhat more olivaceous. 



Female. — Apparently unknown. 



Adult male. — Wing 132-134; tail 52.5-56.5 ; culmen from the base 16.5- 

 17.0; tarsus 34-35.1 ; middle toe without claw 28.9-29.0 mm. (2 specimens 

 from Gineta Mountain, near Santa Efigenia, Oaxaca). 



Range. — Resident in the forest of the mountain slopes of southeastern 

 Oaxaca (Gineta Mountain near Santa Efigenia; Tehuantepec) ; possibly 

 in adjacent part of western Oaxaca. 



Type locality. — "Mexico." 



Odontophorus lineolatus Gould, Monogr. Odontoph., pt. 3, 1850, pi. 32 and text 

 (Mexico; cot3-pes in Berlin Mus. ; ex Pcrdix lineolatus Lichtenstein, manu- 

 script).— Gray, List Birds Brit. Mus., Gallinse, pt. 5, 1867, 7i. 



[Strophiortyx] lineolatus Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., xlii, 1856, 883. 



Dactylortyx thoracictis lineolatus Nelson, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, xii, 1898, 

 64, 66 (Mount Gineta, near Santa Efigenia, Oaxaca; descr. ; synonymy). — 

 Peters, Check-list Birds World, ii, 1934, 56 (distr.).— Hellmayr and Conover, 

 Cat. Birds Amer., i, No. 1, 1942, 282 (syn.; distr.). 



D[actylortyx] thoracicus lineolatus Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, 

 iii, 1903, 308 in text (crit.). 



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



[Odontophorus] thoracicus (not Ortyx thoracicus Gambel) Sclater and Salvin, 

 Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 138,. part. 



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

 (in synonymy); Ibis, 1902, 242 (crit.). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-' 

 Amer., Aves, iii, 1903, 308, part (Santa Efigenia, Tehuantepec, Oaxaca). 



DACTYLORTYX THORACICUS SHARPEI Nelson 



Yucatan Long-toed Quail 



Adult male. — Similar to that of the nominate race but generally paler 

 (the palest of all the races of the species), the sides and flanks paler and 

 grayer — fairly pale drab ; the lower back, rump, and upper tail covert's' 

 less buffy, more grayish — pale buffy drab vermiculated with drab. 



