Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant on American Gallintc. 239 



Mountain Partridge are admitted : — 1. Oreortyx pictus 

 (Dougl.) ; 2. 0. plumiferus (Gould) ; and 3. O. confinis 

 Aiithony. 



3. EUPSYCHORTYX SONNINI (op. cit. p. 409). 



Eupsychortyx pallidus Richmond, P. U. S. Nat. Mus. 

 xviii. p. 657 (1896) [Margarita T., Venezuela]. 



This species is said to be " considerably paler " than 

 E. sonninii. 



Mr. Richmond admits having very scanty material for 

 comparison (one male and one female). In a series of 

 typical birds from Quonga, British Guiana, collected by 

 H. Whitely, considerable variation is found in the plumage, 

 some being much paler on the breast and some darker. This 

 species was introduced into Mustique Island, Grenadines, 

 W.I., about 1885, and there is a male in the British Museum 

 collection procured on that island by D. W. Smith. It is very 

 likely to have been introduced into Margarita Island. In 

 any case the description does not lead one to believe that 

 Mr. Richmond has much faith in the validity of the species ; 

 and, after re-examining our specimens from British Guiana, 

 I have no hesitation in regarding E. pallidus as a synonym 

 of E. sonninii. 



CoLiNus Less. Man. d^Orn. ii. p. 190 (1828) must stand in 

 place of Ortyx Steph. in Shaw's Gen. Zool. xi. p. 376 (1819) 

 [nee Oken, Lehrb. Nat. iii., Zool. pt. ii. p. 611 (1816) : type, 

 Turnix sylvaticus (Desf.)]"^. 



1 B. OllTYX VIRGINIANUS Subsp. b. TEXANUS (op. cit. p. 419) . 



Colinus virginianus maculatus Nelson, Auk, xvi. p. 26 

 (1899) [from Tancanhuitz, San Luis Potosi, north to Victoria, 

 and Jaumave Valley, Tamaulipas, Mexico]. 



* [We fail to see why " Ortyx,^' which has, until recently, been the 

 title of this well-known group, should be superseded by Colinus. It is 

 the fact that " Ortyx'" was casually mentioned by Oken in his ' Lehrbuch ' 

 as a synonym of Turnix, but it does not seem at all certain that Oken 

 meant to propose " Ortyx " as a new generic term. At any rate it has 

 never been used in place of Turnix. Let us give " Ortyx " the benefit 

 of the doubt. — Edd.] 



