406 PHASIAN1D,E. 



1. Philortyx fasciatus. 



Ortyx fasciatus, Natter er, MS., Gould, P. Z. S. 1843, p. 133 [Cali- 

 fornia!]; Cooper, Bull. Nutt. Orn. C. ii. p. 95 (1877) [Colima, 

 Mexico]. 



Ortyx perrotiana, Bes Murs, Bev. Zool. 1845, p. 207 [Mexico]. 



Philortyx fasciatus, Gould, Mon. Odontoph. pt. ii. pi. 14 (1846). 



Philortyx personatiis, Ridgw. Auk, iii. p. 333 (1886) [State of Puebla]. 



Callipela fasciata, Ridyw. Man. N. Am. B. p. 193 (1887). 



Callipepla personatus, '-R«V/(/w. Man. N. Am. B. p. 193 (1887). 



Adult male and female. Top and sides of the head olive-brown, 

 washed with rufous on the crown ; a well-developed occipital crest of 

 blackish-brown, parallel-edged feathers, tipped with rufous ; neck 

 and mantle grey or olive-grey, each feather margined with reddish 

 brown ; lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts olive-brown, 

 margined and barred across the middle with black and buff; wing- 

 coverts, scapulars, and outer secondaries olive-brown, barred and 

 tipped with buff, and mostly, especially the two latter, blotched with 

 deep brownish black towards their extremities ; primaries, primary- 

 coverts, and inner secondaries brown, the latter barred on the outer 

 web with buff; chin and throat white; chest, sides of breast, 

 belly, and flanks strongly barred with black and white, and fringed 

 with reddish brown at the extremity : middle of breast and belly 

 white, some of the feathers with a rounded or oval black spot in the 

 middle ; vent and under tail-coverts buff, the latter with heart-shaped 

 black spots down the middle ; tail-feathers grey, the middle ones 

 washed with olive, and all with mottled cross-bars of black and 

 pale buff. Total length 7'6 inches, wing 4, tail 2-5, tarsus 1-15, 

 middle toe and claw 1'35. 



Immature birds (in January) have the lores, superciliary stripes, 

 and the greater part of the chin and throat black ; many of the 

 feathers of the mantle, scapulars, and wing-coverts with buff shaft- 

 stripes, and the primaries marked on the outer web and tipped 

 with buff. 



A very yovyig specimen has the top of the head covered with 

 dark chestnut down ; the lores, forehead, and superciliary stripes 

 and cheeks rufous buff ; the chin, throat, and middle of the breast 

 yellowish white ; all the rest of the body is covered with feathers ; 

 the upper parts are much like those of the adult, but the mantle 

 is blotched with black and every feather has a wide buff shaft- 

 stripe ; the fore part of the neck, chest, and breast black, with white 

 shaft-stripes, and the flank-feathers white, spotted on each web with 

 black. 



Bab. Same as that of the genus. 



a. Ad. .sk. Mexico. Gould Coll. 



6. Ad. sk. Mexico (W /life). Salvin-Godnjan Coll. 



c~l. cJ 5 ad. et Plains of Colima, Jan. ( W. B. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



imm. sk. Bichardson). 



vt. (^ ad. sk. Sierra Madre del Sur, State of Sahin-Godnian Coll. 



Guerrero, Oct. (Mrs. H. H. 

 Smith). 



