55. ORTYX. 41 i 



/. Chin, throat, and chest black. 



c'. Feathers of the top of the head black, 

 edged and tipped with brown, a white 

 superciliary stripe usually fairly de- 



veliiped coyolcos, p. 423. 



d! . Feathers of the top of the head uniform 



black, superciliary stripe black atriceps, p. 424. 



E. Middle of brea^it and belly white, barred 



with black and mixed with chestnut .... castaneus, p. 424. 



1. Ortyx Virginian us. 



New-England Partridge, Albin, Kut. Hist. B. i. p. 26, pi. xxviii. 



(1738). 

 American Partridge, Catesby, Carol, ii. App. pi. 12 (1743) ; Nutt. 



J/rt»i. Or«. i. p. 647 (1832). 

 La Perdrix de la Xouvelle Angleterre, Briss. Om.i. p. 229 (1760) ; 



Buf. Hist. Xat. Ois. ii. p. 447 (1771). 

 La Caille de la Louiziane, Briss. Orn. i. p. 258, pi. xxii. fig. 2 (1760) ; 



D'Aubent. PL Enl. ii. pi. 53 [no. 149]. 

 La Perdrix d'Amerique, Briss. Orn. i. p. 230 (1760). 

 Tetrao virginianus, Linn. S. N. i. p. 277 (1766) ; Gm. S. X. i. pt. ii. 



p. 761 (1788). 

 Tetrao marilandicus, Li7in. S. N. i. p. 277 (1766). 

 Tetrao mexicanus, Linn. S. N. i. p. 277 (1766) ; Gni. S. N. i. pt. ii. 



p. 762 (1788). 

 Le Colenicui, Buf. Hist. Kat. Ois. ii. p. 487 (1771). 

 Virginia Partridge, Lath. Gen. Si/n. ii. pt. ii. p. 777 (1783). 

 Maryland Partridge, Lat/i. Gen. Syn. ii. pt. ii. p. 778 (1783) ; id. Gen. 



Hi.^t. B. viii. p. .'524 (1823). 

 Louisiana Quail, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. pt. ii. p. 785 (1783) ; id. Gen. 



Hist. viii. p. 326 (1823). 

 Tetrao marilandus, Gm. S. X. i. pt. ii. p. 761 (1788). 

 Perdix virginiana. Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 650 (1790) ; WHs. Am. Orn. 



vi. p. 21, pi. xlvii. (1812) ; Jard. ed. IVils. Am. Orn. ii. p. 223, 



pi. 47. tig. 2 (1832) ; Aud. Orn. Biogr. i. p. 388, pi. 76 (1831), v. 



p. 564 (1839). 

 Perdix marilanda, L.ath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 651 (1790). 

 Perdix mexicana, Lath. Lid. Orn. ii. p. 653 (1790). 

 Tetrao minor, Bartr. Travels, p. 290 his (1791). 

 Coturuix virginiana, p. 219, marilandica, p. 220, mexicana, p. 223, 



Bonn. Tabl. Encycl. Meth. i. (1791). 

 Perdix borealis, Temm. Pig. et Gall. iii. pp. 436, 735 (1815) [part.] ; 



VieiU. Gal. Ois. ii. p. 44, pi. 214 (1825). 

 Le Colin ho-oui. J'ieill. N.Diet. d'Hist. Nat. x\v. p. 242 (1817). 

 Ortvx borealis, Steph. in 6'hair's Gen. Zool. xi. p. 377 (1819); Jard. 



^- Self>. III. Orn. i. text to pi. 38. 

 Ortyx virginianus, Jard. Xat. Lib., Orn. iv. p. 123, pi. x. (18.U) ; 



Gould, Monot/r. Odontoph. pt. i. pi. i. (1844) ; ff'oodJi. Sityr. Pep. 



p. 94 (1853) [Indian Territory; Texa.<i] ; Neic(on,Ibis, 1859, p. 254 



[St. Croix, introduced] ; Baird, U. S. S( 3/e.r. Surv.. Birds, p. 32 



(1859): Baird, B. N. Amer. p. 640 (1860) ; Sclaf. P. Z. S. 1861, 



p. 80 [Jamaica, introduced] ; Albrecht, J. f. O. 1862, p. 205 



[Jamaica]: Ilnyd. Pep. p. 173 (1862) [Missouri R. tu White K.] ; 



Marsh, P. Ac. ' Philad. 186:3, p. 303 [Jamaica]; Gray, List Gat- 



liiue Brit. Mus.^. 75 (1867); id. Hand-l.B.'ii. p. 272(1870); 



