MASSENA QUAIL — CYRTONYX MASSENA. 447 



color; legs, pale dull bluish. Leugtb, 9i inches; extent, 18; wing, 5; tail, 2; bill, 

 0.70; tarsus, IJ. 



Adidi female: Like the male on the upper parts, but wanting the distinct markings 

 on the head; colors of the under parts entirely diftereut; the crest less developed; 

 the size of the whole bird less ; no black about the head ; chin yellowish or tawny 

 Avhite; whole under parts plain, pale brownish-white, inconspicuously marked with a 

 few little black sjwts. Bill, light horn-color ; upper mandible with a tinge of reddish, 

 lower nearly white; iris, brownish-olive; legs and feet, livid bluish-white, with a 

 yellowish tinge behind. Length, 9 inches ; extent, 17 ; wing, 4| ; tail, 2 ; tarsus, 1.20. 



Young, scarceh/ fledged: Bill, reddish-brown above, whitish below ; feet, dull brown- 

 ish. General plumage of the upper parts light, warm brown, variegated with black, 

 and very boldly striped with white — each feather having a broad, sharp, white shaft- 

 line, hannner-headed or transversely enlarged at ajjex, bordered on either side by the 

 areas that cause the variegation. A few of the inner wing-quills like the back ; the 

 rest dnsky, with whitish shafts, and interruptedly barred, chiefly on the outer webs, 

 with light, dull bufty-brown, or whitish. Feathers of under parts white, with a slight 

 bufty suffusion, boldly marked with innumerable spots of brownish-black, paired on 

 each feather, quite circular and sharp on the breast, further back widening into trans- 

 verse bars. The head of the specimen is still in the down, except a feather or two just 

 sprouted on the vei'tex ; these feathers are like the back ; there is a triangular chest- 

 nut-brown area on the crown ; the head is otherwise light grayish-brown, fading into 

 white on the chin and throat, and with a dusky auricular mark. Length of the speci- 

 men about :5.J inches. 



For opportunity of describing this early stage, hitherto unpublished, so far as I know, 

 and quite new to me, I am indebted to Lieutenant G. M. Wheeler, Corps of Engineers, the 

 accomplished officer in charge of the Explorations and Surveys west of the 100th 

 meridian, which are doing so much to develop the resources of the West. I was 

 kindly shown, by Dr. H. C. Yarrow, the well-known naturalist in charge of the 

 Natural History Department, several specimens of the species from Arizona, forming 

 part of the collection made during the season of 1873 by H. W. Henshaw — one of the 

 largest, best prepared, and most valuable suites of bird-skins ever brought from our 

 Western Territories. 



Note. — The foregoing account of Gall'mce includes all the species known to inhabit 

 North America, north of Mexico. 



