;V3. riiiLoKTVx. 4no 



prinmry-covcrts brown ; secondaries and their coverts similar, but 

 washed with olive on the outer web and finely mottled with butt'; 

 feathers of chin and throat black, edged with white ; chest, breast, 

 and belly grey, the two latter ornamented with round white spots ; 

 under tail-coverts dark brown down the middle, buff on the sides ; 

 tail-feathers slate-grey, washed with brown towards the tip. Total 

 length 9-3 inches, wing 4-4, tail 3-2, tarsus 1'2, middle toe and 

 claw 1-4. 



Adult female. Differs from the male in having the general colour 

 of the top and sides of the head and nape olive-brown ; the crest 

 usually dark brou n ; the mantle washed with greyish and mottled 

 with whitish buif; the rest of the upper parts similarly marked ; 

 the inner wing-coverts, scapulars, and outer secondaries deep 

 Idackish brown, more or less mottled with rufous and margined 

 with buff ; the chin and throat white with dark shafts ; and the 

 rest of the underparts greyish brown, covered with rounded white 

 spots. 



Ilah. Western Mexico : States of Sonora, Sinaloa, Jalisco. 



a, h. (S ad. sk. et Mexico. Ur. J. E. Gray [P.]. 



St. 



c. (S ad. sk. Mexico. (lould Coll. 



d. 2 ad. sk. Ysleta, Sonora, Mexico, May Salvin-Godman Coll. 



( W. Lloyd). 



e. 2 ad. sk. Guadalupe, Sonora, Mexico, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



April (W.L.). 

 f,g. 5 *id. sk.* Quiriego, Souora, Mexico, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



April ( ir. L.). 

 h-k. (S $ ad. sk. Sierra de Alamos, Sonora, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Mexico, May ( W. L.). 

 I. (^ ad. sk. Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mexico. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



m. 2 '•^^- *'f [Mazatlan J (Capt. Beechey). Zool. Soc. Coll. 



(Type of Orty.v dotiglasii, Vig.) 

 w, o. cJ 5 ad. sk. Presidio, Mexico, Dec. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



{A. Furrer). 

 p~b'. (S $ ad. sk. San Bias, Jalisco, ISlexieo, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



April, May ( W. B. Rkhard- 



so/i). 



53. PHILORTYX. 



Typi 



Philortyx, O'viild, Mon. Oilontojih. pi. 14, or pt. ii. 



( 1840) ; Introd. p. 17 (18o0) P. fasciatus. 



Sexes similar ; crest well developed and extending much beyond 

 the feathers of the head. 



1st primary falls between the 9th and 10th ; 4th slightly the 

 longest. 



Tail composed of 12 feathers, about | of the length of the wing. 



Tarsus shorter than the middle toe and claw. 



Ranye. Southern Mexico : States of Colima, Guerrero, and Puebla. 

 * One assuming male plumage. 



