130 at,len's naturalist's library. 



il the white-faced crested quail. eupsychortyx 

 leucopogon. 



Ortyx leucopogon^ Lesson, Rev. Zool. 1842, p. 175; Des Miirs, 



Icon. Orn. pi. 36 (1846) [crest omitted]. 

 Ortyx leiicotis, Gould, P. Z. S. 1843, p. 133. 

 Eupsychortyx kucotis, Gould, Monogr. Odontoph. pt. i. pi. 10 



(1844). 

 Eupsychortyx kucopogon, Gould, Monogr. Odontoph. pt. iii. 

 pi. 13 (1850); Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 

 409(1893). 



Adult Male. — Very similar to the male of E. cristafus, but 

 the crest is brownish-white ; eyebrow-stripes riifous-chesinut^ 

 and the white ear-patches margined above and below with 

 chestnut instead of black. From the following species it differs 

 in having the chest thickly spotted right up to the throat. 

 Total length, 8*5 inches; wing, 4-1; tail, 27; tarsus, 1*2; 

 middle toe and claw, 1*3. 



Adult Female. — Differs from the male in having the CYe?>tdark 

 l??'07vn ; the feathers of the eyebrow-stripe and throat buff, 

 edged with black ; the ear-coverts brown ; the mantle blotched 

 with black like the rest of the back ; the under-parts paler and 

 the cross-bars more strongly marked ; somewhat smaller. 



Range. — Vcragua to the United States of Colombia. 



III. SONNINl'S CRESTED QUAIL. EUPSYCHORTYX SONNINIL 



Perdix so?mifii, Temm. Pig. et Gall. iii. pp. 451, 737 (181 5) ; id. 



PI. Col. V. pi. 42 [No. 75] (1823). 

 Eupsychortyx sonni?ii, Gould, Monogr. Odontoph. pt. iii. pi. 11 



(1850); Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 410 



(1893). 

 Adult Male. — Differs from the male of E. leucopogon in having 

 the ear-coverts dirty white ; the chest almost uniform pale vina- 

 ceous, slightly mottled with black (there are irregular white black- 



