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PHASIANID^. 



Younger males have the black feathers of the throat with white 

 shafts aud middles. 



Adult female. To be distinguished from the females of E. sonnini 

 and E. parvicristatus, which it greatly resembles, b)' having the 

 chest like that of the male, but more spotted ; the superciliary 

 stripe wider and pure yellowish buff; the throat the same, with 

 very slight black edges to the outer feathers ; and the upper parts 

 with the black markings coarser. 



Hab. Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Ilica. 



a. 2 ad. St. Costa Eica (Endres). Purchased. 



6, e. cJ 2 ad. sk. Costa Rica {J. Carmiol^- Cajjt. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Doiv). 

 d, e. d 2 fid. sk. Costa Rica. Gould Coll. 



/. c? ad. sk. San Jose, Costa Rica, Feb. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(J. Carmiol). 

 y. S imm. sk. Irazu Distr., Costa Rica (if. Sahin-Godman Coll. 



Rogers), 

 h-n. <S 5 ad. et Chinandega, Nicaragua, May Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 imm. sk. ( W. B. Richardmn) . 



6. Eupsychortyx nigrogularis. 



Ortyx nigrogularis, Gotdd, P. Z. S. 1842, p. 181 [Mexico] ; id. Man. 



Odontopk. pt. ii. pi. 4 (1846) ; Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 514, pi. cxxxii. 



(1846); id. List Gallina Brit. Mm. p. 76 (1867): id. Hand-l. 



B. ii. p. 273 (1870) ; Boucard, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 461 [Chable, 



Yucatan]. 

 Ortyx nigrigularis, Sclat. ^ Sahin, Ibis, 1859, p. 225 [Yucatan and 



British Honduras]. 

 Cohnus nigrogularis, Ridgio. Man. N. Am. B. p. 190 (1887). 

 Colinus nigrogularis segovien.sis, Ridyio. P. U. S. Nat. Mus. x. p. 693 



(1887) [Segovia River, Honduras]. 



Ad^dt male. Lores, superciliary stripes, chin, and throat black ; 

 top of the head aud moderate crest brown, edged on the forehead 

 and sides with white ; a white stripe from the angle of the gape 

 across the ear-coverts ; feathers of the back and sides of the neck 

 and upper part of the mantle chestnut, mostly with white centres ; 

 those of the lower mantle chestnut, margined with grey finely 

 mottled with black ; lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts grey 

 tipped with olive-brown, and with large deep black mottled blotches ; 

 scapulars and outer secondaries very similar, but with their inner 

 webs margined with white ; wing-coverts brown, with chestnut 

 middles; quills brown; the inner secondaries mottled with pale 

 brown on the outer web ; chest, breast, and belly white, each 

 feather margined all round with black, those of the sides and flanks 

 with chestnut ; under tail-covcrts rufous, tipped with whitish and 

 with black centres ; tail brownish grey, the middle feathers especially 

 more or less mottled towards the tips with whitish brown. Total 

 length 8-2 inches, wing 4-1, tail 2-3, tarsus 1-15, middle toe and 

 claw 1"35. 



