408 PHASIANID^. 



Coturuix cristata, Bonn. Tabl. Encycl. Meth. i. p. •222, pi. 96. fig. 4 



(1791). 

 Le Colin Zon&olin, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxv. p. 247 (1817). 

 Ortyx temminckii, Sfepfi. hi 8/imv's Gen. Zool. xi. p. 381 (1819). 

 Ortyx neoxenus, Vigors, P. Z. 8. 1830, p. 3. 

 Ortvx cristata, Lesson, III. Zool. text to pi. 52 (1831) ; Jard. ^ Selh. 



ill. Orn. i. text to pi. 38. 

 Ortvx cristatus, Gray, List of B. pt. iii. Gall. p. 44 (1844) ; id. List 



GalUnce Brit. Mus. p. 76 (1867) ; id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 273 (1870) ; 



r. Pelz. Ibis, 1873, p. 36. 

 Eupsvchortvx cristatus, Gould, Man. Odontoph. pt. ii. pi. 9 (1846) ; 



Cuoj)er, Bull. Nutt. Orn. C. ii. p. 9-5 (1877) ; Berlepsch, J. f. O. 



1892, p. 98 ; Hartert, Ibis, 1893, pp. 305, .325 [ Aruba, Curafao]. 

 Perdix neoxenus, Aud. Orn. Bioyr. v. p. 228, pi. 423 (1849). 

 Eupsycbortyx gouldi, Berlepsch, J.f. O. 1892, p. 100 [Cura9ao]. 



Adult male. Lores, top of the head, elongate crest, chin, and throat 

 huff or rufous buii' ; ear-coverts white, a wide black superciliary 

 stripe and a black band running from the angle of the gape between 

 the throat and ear-coverts ; feathers of the back of the neck white, 

 with a triangular black patch at the extremity : mantle, sides of the* 

 neck, and wing-coverts mostly rufous washed with grey, and shading 

 into grey on the rump and upper tail-coverts ; all the upper parts are 

 finely mottled with black, and many of the wing-coverts, scapulars, 

 outer secondaries, and feathers below the mantle are blotched with 

 the same colour, while the three former are also edged with whitish 

 buff ; quills brown, the secondaries more or less mottled on the 

 cuter webs with rufous white ; chest-feathers rufous down the 

 middle, barred with black, and with a white spot on either side of 

 the extremity ; sides and flanks very similar ; breast and belly 

 white, barred with black, and, especially in the middle of the breast 

 and belly, widely tipped with orange-buff ; under tail-coverts buif 

 with dark centres ; tail-feathers brownish grey, with irregular 

 mottled bars or vermiculations of pale buff. Total length 8 inches, 

 wing 4, tail 2-4, tarsus 1-15, middle toe and claw 1*3.5. 



Adult female. Differs chiefly from the male in having the super- 

 ciliai'y stripe orange-yellow : the ear-coverts pale brown and the 

 band below them whitish buff; the sides of the throat washed with 

 the same colour and the feathers margined on the sides with black. 

 Total length 8 inches, wing 3'9, tail 2-3, tarsus 1*15, middle toe and 

 claw 1'3. 



Hah. Islands of Curacao and Aruba. 



a, b. c? ad. st. et $ [S. America.] Pui'chased. 



ad. sk. 

 c. <S ad. sk. [Mexico.] Salvin-Godman Coll. 



2. Eupsychortyx leucopogon. 



Ortyx leucopogon. Less. Eev. Zool. 1842, p. 175 [San Carlos, Central 



America]; Des Murs, Icon. Orn. pi. 36 (1846). 

 Ortyx leucotis, Gould, P. Z. S. 1843, p. 133 [Santa Fe de Bogota] ; 



Gray, List GalUnce Brit. Mus. p. 77 (1867); id. Hand-l. B. ii. 



p. 273 (1870). 



