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Adult female. — Similar to that of Dactylortyx thoracicus chiapensis but 

 the feet slightly smaller, the middle toe without the claw averaging less 

 than 28 mm. 



Adult male. — Wing 126-126.5 ; tail 51-52 ; culmen from base 17.1-17.6; 

 tarsus 33.5-33.7 ; middle toe without claw^ 27.6-28.5 mm."^^ 



Adult female. — Wing 125-128; tail 53-55; culmen from base 17.1; 

 tarsus 33.2-34.1 ; middle toe without claw 26-28.6 mm. (2 specimens). 



7^aw(7(?.— Confined to the oak forest in the Arid Upper Tropical Zone 

 on Volcan de San Miguel, El Salvador, 2,500 to 4,000 feet. 



Type locality. — Volcan de San Miguel, alt. 4,000 feet, Dept. San Miguel, 

 El Salvador. 



Dactylorly.v thoracicus (not Orty.r thoracicus Gambel) Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. Birds 

 Brit. Mus., xxii, 1893, 429, part (Volcan de San Miguel, El Salvador).— 

 Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, iii, 1903, 308, part (Volcan 

 de San Miguel, El Salvador). 



Dactylortyx thoracicus salvadoraiins Dickey and van Rossem, Proc. Biol. Soc. 

 Washington, xli, 1928, 129 (Volcan de San Miguel, alt. 4,000 feet, Dept. San 

 Miguel, El Salvador; tj^pe in Dickey coll., Univ. California at Los Angeles; 

 descr. ; crit.) ; Birds El Salvador, 1938, 153 (El Salvador; Volcan de San 

 Miguel ; spec. ; habits; colors of soft parts).— Peters, Check-list Birds of World, 

 ii, 1934, 56 (distr.).— CoNOVER, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 1, 1937, 74 (spec; 

 Volcan de San Miguel, El Salvador). — Hellm.wr and Conover, Cat. Birds 

 Amer., i,' No. 1, 1942, 253 (syn.; distr.). — Marshall, Condor, xlv, 1943, 22 

 (El Salvador; Cerro del Agua). 



DACTYLORTYX THORACICUS TAYLOR! van Rossem 



Taylor's Long-toed Quail 



Adult male. — Similar to that of Dactylortyx thoracicus salvadoranus 

 but larger, the wings averaging 130 mm. in length, and generally more 

 rufescent on the entire underparts, the breast and sides suffused with 

 pale Sayal brown ; the interscapulars more buffy brown, less grayish in 

 their median portions. 



Adult female. — Not certainly distinguishable from that of D. t. 

 salvadoranus. 



Adult male.— Wing 124-133 (130); tail 52.5-60.5 (55.8); culmen 

 from ba.se 17.1-18.7 (17.8); tarsus 31.8-33.6 (32.4); middle toe with- 

 out claw 28.9-29.6 (29.2 mm.).'^ 



Adult female.— \Wmg 121-124 (122.5); tail 51.5-55 (53.5); culmen 

 from base 16.8-17.2 (17.0) ; tarsus 31.2-32.6 (31.8) ; middle toe without 

 claw 26.9-28.6 (27.9 mm.).«o 



Range. — Resident in the oak and coffee association of the Arid Upper 



' Two specimens including the type. 

 ' Three specimens including the type. 

 Three specimens. 



