176 CATALOGUE OF MEXICAN ANIMALS. 



239. Ortalis vetula maccaUi Baird. 



Ortalida maccaUi, Baird, B. N. Am., 1858, p. 611. 



Ortalida vetula var miaccaZn, Baird, Hist. N. Am. B., Ill, 1874, p. 398. 



FwZ</. — Chachalaca. 



Hah. — State of Piiebla. San Jose Acateno, No. 449 <?, July. 



Fam. TETRAOXIDJE. 



240. Colinus pectoralis (Gould). 



Ortyx pectoraUs, Gould, P. Z. S., 1842, p. 182. 

 Vulg. — Codoruiz solitaria. 

 Eab.—^tate of Puebla. Chietla, No. 166 <? , 16Ga 9 , December. 



241. Philortyx personatus Eidgway, sp. nov. 



Philorti/x personatus, Eidgway, Auk, III, July, 1886, p. 333. 



Vulg. — Codoruiz de copete. 



Hah. — State of Puebla. Chietla, No. 157 3 , type, December. 



[Sp. Char. — Somewhat like P. fasciatus, Gould, but differing iu 

 haviug the bill light brown instead of black, and the forehead, cheeks, 

 and throat black, instead of brown and white. 



Young S , transition plumage (type. No. 157, collection of the Comis- 

 ion Geografico Exploradora de Mexico, Chietla, Puebla, December, 

 1884): Forehead, cheeks, chin, and throat, uniform black; lores and 

 post-ocular region dull ochraceous; feathers of crown, including those 

 of the crest (the longest of which extend 1.25 inches from the base of 

 the culmen), brownish black, with transverse spots or irregular bars of 

 fulvous; occiput and nape light brown, barred with dusky, the lower 

 l^art of the cervix uniform light grayish brown; scapulars, interscapu- 

 lars, tertials, and some of the wing-coverts, light grayish brown, marked 

 with a broad mesial streak of whitish, and large terminal or subteiniinal 

 spots of black. (A few yiew feathers on the anterior portion of the scai)u- 

 lar area have a terminal bar of dull buff preceded by a broad subter- 

 minal band or spot of black.) Primaries brownish gray, the outer 

 webs irregularly spotted with pale brownish buff. Rump grayish brown, 

 finely mottled with darker, some of the feathers with indistinct lighter 

 tips and dusky subteruiiual si)ots; upper tail-coverts similar, but with 

 more distinct markings. Tail finely mottled with light brown, pale 

 dull grayish buff, and dusky, the coarser mottlings disposed iu the form 

 of indistinct but very regular bars. Old feathers (immature plumage) 

 of jugulum and breast dusky, each Avith a sharply defined and very 

 conspicuous white mesial streak ; new feathers (adult plumage) alter- 

 nately barred with blackish brown and white; new feathers of lower 

 breast more broadh' barred, the darker bars deep black ; sides and 

 flanks (old feathers) irregularly barred and spotted with dusky, on a 

 white ground ; abdomen white, immaculate iu middle portion ; lower 

 tail-coverts pale dull buft'y or brownish white. Bill light reddi.sli brown ; 



