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PHASIANID^. 



List Gaaince Brit. Mus. p. 74 (1867) ; Cooper, Cal. Orn. i. p. 558 

 (1870) [Gulf of California] ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 272 (1870) ; 

 Coues, Key N. Am. B. p. 239 (1872) : Baird. Breic, lV Bidgio. 

 N. Ainer. B. iii. p. 492 (1874) ; Coues, B. N.- West, p. 443 (1874) ; 

 Stephens, Bull. Nutt. Orn. C. iii. p. 94 (1878) ; Breicst. Bull. Nutt. 

 Orn. C. viii. p. 35 (1883) [Chiricahua Mts., Arizona] ; Coues, Key 

 N. Am. B. p. 594 (1884). 

 Cyrtonyx montezumse, Stejn. Auk, ii. p. 46 (1885) ; Scott, Auk, iii. 

 p. 389 (1886) [Arizonal; A. O. U. Check-list, p. 170 (1886) ; Bidgio. 

 Man. N. Am. B. p. 194 (1887); Lloyd, Auk, iv. p. 187 (1887) 

 [W. Texas] ; Beckham, P. U.S. Nat. Mus. x. pp. 637, 656 (1887) 

 [S.W. Texas] ; Mearns, Auk, vii. p. 52 (1890) [Arizona] ; Ben- 

 dire, N. Am.B. p. 35, pi. i. tig. 15 (1892). 



Adult male. Feathers of the top of the head black, barred and 

 tipped with sandy brown and with buff shaft-stripes : occipital 

 crest reddish buff; forehead, sides of the head aud throat, and fore 

 part of neck with an elegant black-and-white pattern, the black 

 markings being arranged as follows : — the space down the middle of 

 the forehead, a band bordering the top of the head and passing in 

 front of the eye across the lores and cheeks and ending in a wide 

 triangular bluish-black patch ; ear-coverts, chin, middle of the 

 throat, and a band bordering the base of the neck ; a narrow line of 

 black leathers also surrounds the eye; mantle, scapulars, lower back, 

 and rump are pale rufous thickly barred with black ; each feather, 

 except those of the lower back, with a wide buff black-bordered 

 shaft-stripe ; the wing- and upper tail-coverts are greyer, and the 

 black markings take the form of a row of spots on each web ; pri- 

 maries, primary-coverts, and secondaries dark brown, with the outer 

 web barred with white, the bars on the inner secondaries being 

 washed with pale rufous and extending across the outer half of the 

 inner webs ; middle of the chest and breast dark chestnut ; sides and 

 flanks dark grey, with a row of three or four paired spots on each 

 web ; rest of underparts deep black ; tail-feathers very similar to 

 the upper tail-coverts. Total length 8-2 inches, wing 5-1, tail 2-2, 

 tarsus I'l, middle toe and claw 1-4. 



An immature male has the sides of the head and throat like those 

 of the female, with only a few black feathers beginning to appear 

 on the chin and ear-coverts. 



Adult female. Feathers of the top of the head black barred with 

 brown or rufous-buff and with pale shafts ; mantle, scapulars, lower 

 back, rump, and upper tail-coverts pale reddish or sandy brown, 

 barred and blotched with black ; all the feathers, except those of 

 the lower back aud rump, with broad buff black-edged shaft-stripes ; 

 wing-coverts pale vinaceous grey, with indistinct bars towards the 

 base ; quills like those of the male ; sides of the head white, washed 

 on the superciliaries and cheeks with pale vinaceous and dotted with 

 black; chin aud throat white: a black band commences on the ear- 

 coverts and passing down the sides of the neck forms an ill-defined 

 border to the base of the fore part of the neck ; rest of the under- 

 parts pale vinaceous, shading into buff on the middle of the breast and 

 belly, as well as on the under tail-coverts, and spotted and marked 



