BIRDS OP NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA 387 



Adult male. — Wing 123-137 (133) ; tail 51-56.5 (53.7) ; culmen from 

 base 16.8-17.8 (17.3) ; tarsus 34.3-37.4 (35.9) ; middle toe without claw 

 29.7-32.9 (31.6 mm.).'^^ 



Adult female.— Wing 125-133 (128.2); tail 49-53.5 (51.3); culmen 

 from base 16-16.8 (16.4); tarsus 32-34.3 (33.5); middle toe without 

 claw 28.6-31.2 (29.5 mm.)."^" 



Range. — Resident in cloud-forest subtropical areas from central Chiapas 

 (Mount Ovando; Santa Rosa, Esculntla, Siltepec, Male, and Pico de 

 Loro, Moriscal; San Cristobal) to the Pacific Cordillera of Guatemala 

 (Tecpam, Finca Perla, Volcan de Fuego, Quetzaltenango, Duerias, 

 Volcan de Santa Maria; 7,000 to 8,500 feet). 



Type locality. — San Cristobal, Chiapas, Mexico. 



Odontophorus thoracicus (not Ortyx thoracicus Gambel) Salvin and Sclater, Ibis, 

 1860, 276 (Volcan de Fuego, Guatemala; habits). 



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



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

 part (Volcan de Fuego, Duetias, and Quezaltenango, Guatemala) ; Ibis, 1902, 

 242 (crit). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, iii, 1903, 308, 

 part (San Cristobal, Chiapas; Santa Maria, Volcan de Fuego, Quezaltenango, 

 and Duenas, Guatemala). 



[Dactylortyx] thoracicus Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 46, part (Guatemala), 



Dactylortyx chiapensis Nelson, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, xii, 1898, 65, 66 

 (San Cristobal, Chiapas, s. Mexico; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus. ; descr. ; crit.). 



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

 308, in text (crit.). 



[Dactylortyx] chiapensis Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 46 (Guatemala). 



Dactylortyx thoracicus chiapensis Griscom, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., Ixiv, 1932, 

 107 (Tecpam and Quezaltenango, Guatemala; habits; distr.). — Peters, Check- 

 list Birds o£ World, ii, 1934, 56 (distr.). — Conover, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 

 1, 1937, 73, in text (crit.), 74 (spec; Mexico and Guatemala). — Hellmayr and 

 CoNOVER, Cat. Birds Amer., i, No. 1, 1942, 282 (distr.; syn.). — del Campo, Anal. 

 Inst. Biol., xiii. No. 2, 1942, 700 (Chiapas; Catarinas; spec), 



DACTYLORTYX THORACICUS SALVADORANUS Dickey and van Rossem 



Salvadorean Long-toed Quail 



Adult male. — Similar to that of the nominate race but without the 

 white lateral edge to the occiput; the breast and sides and flanks paler, 

 more grayish drab, the middle of the abdomen less white, more washed 

 with drab to hair brown ; the interscapulars with more conspicuous white 

 shafts; tarsus shorter than in Dactylortyx thoracicus chiapensis, and the 

 pale shafts of the feathers of the breast and sides and upper abdomen nar- 

 row and white ; iris brown ; bill blackish brown ; tarsi and toes plumbeous 

 horn color; claws brownish horn color. "^ 



" Ten specimens from Chiapas and Guatemala. 

 " Six specimens from Chiapas and Guatemala. 



" According to Dickey and van Rossem, Birds of El Salvador, 1938, 154, the 

 basal half of the mandible is paler in birds in the first autumn than in older birds. 



