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is mixed ivith black afid margijied zvitJi buff; wings and shoulder 

 feathers very similar, but the black markings take the form of 

 blotches near the tips ; throat white ; under-parts white, strotigly 

 barred with blacky except the middle of the breast and belly. 

 Total length, 7-6 inches; wing, 4; tail, 2-6; tarsus, i"i5; 

 middle toe and claw, 1-35. 



Yonnger Birds have the eyebrow-stripes and greater part of the 

 chin and throat black. 



Range. — Southern Mexico. States of Colima, Guerrero, and 

 Puebla. 



THE CRESTED QUAILS. GENUS EUPSYCHORTYX. 



Eupsychoriyx, Gould, Monogr. Odontoph. pi. 10 in pt. i. 

 (1844); Introd. p. 15 (1850). 



Type, E. lexicopogon (Lesson). 



Sexes different in plumage. Crest well or fairly well-deve- 

 loped. 



First primary flight-feather intermediate ifi length between 

 the eighth and ninth ; fourth slightly the longest. 



Tail composed of twelve feathers, rather mo7'e than half the 

 length of the wing. 



Tarsus shorter than the middle toe and claw. 



Eight small Quail-like species are known. 



I. THE CURA5AO CRESTED QUAIL. EUPSYCHORTYX CRISTATUS. 



Tetrao cristatus, Linn. S. N. i. p. 277 (1766). 



Ortvx te7nmincki, Steph. in Shaw's Gen. Zool. xi. p. 381 



^ (1819). 



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



Eiipsychortyx cristatus^ Gould, Monogr. Odontoph. pt. ii. pi. 

 9 (1846); Hartert, Ibis, 1893, pp. 305, 325; Ogilvie- 

 Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 407 (1893). 



Perdix neoxe?ius, Aud. Orn. Biogr. v. p. 228, pi. 423 (1849). 



Eiipsychortyx ga^ldi, Berlepsch, J. f. O. 1892, p. 100. 



