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First primary flight-feather intennediate in length between 

 the seventh and eighth ; fourth shghtly longest. 



Tail composed of twelve feathers, less than half the length 

 of the wing. 



Tarsus shorter than the middle toe and claw. 



Claws very long* 



t. THE MASSENA HARLEQUIN QUAIL. CYRTONYX 

 MONTEZUM/E. 



Ortyx montcziuncB, Vigors, Zool. Journ. v. p. 275 (1830) ; Jar- 

 dine and Selby, 111. Orn. iii. pi. 126. 



Ortyx massena^ Lesson, 111. Zool. pi. 52 (1831). 



Tetrao guttata^ La Llave, Reg. Trim. i. p. 114 (1831). 



Odontophorus nieleagris, Wagler, Isis, 1832, p. 277. 



Cyrtoiiyx masseua, Gould, Monogr. Odontoph. pt. i. pi. 7 

 (1844); Cassin, 111. B. Cal. p. 21, pi. iv. (1S53). 



Cyrfonyx viontezunice, Bendire, N. Am. B. p. 35, pi. i. fig. 15 

 [egg] (1892); Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 



425 (1893)- 



Adult Male. — Crest reddish-buff; forehead, sides of the head, 

 throat, and fore-neck elegantly marked with a hlack-and-whi!e 

 pattern ; general colour above pale rufous, thickly barred Avith 

 black, with wide buff shaft-stripes ; outer webs of quills barred 

 with white; middle of chest and breast dark chestnut; sides 

 and flank dark grey, with a row of rounded paired ivhiie spots 

 down each web ; rest of under- parts deep black. Total length, 

 8'2 • wing, 5'i ; tail, 2*2; tar.-us, i"i ; middle tee and claw, 

 1-4. 



Adult Female. — Head and throat without black-and-vv-hite 

 pattern, and mostly white, the eyebrow-stripes, and cheeks 

 washed with pale vinaceous ; base of fore-neck bordered by an 

 ill-defined black band, commencing on the ear-coverts ; upper- 

 parts more coarsely marked than m the male ; under-parts 

 pale vinaceous, shading into bufftow\ards the middle, and more 

 or less spotted and marked with black. Total length, 7-8 



