128 LLOYD’S NATURAL HISTORY. 
is mixed wth black and margined with buff; wings and shoulder 
feathers very similar, but the black markings take the form of 
blotches near the tips ; throat white ; under-parts white, s/vong/y 
barred with black, except the middle of the breast and belly. 
Total length, 7°6 inches; wing, 4; tail, 2°6; tarsus, 1°15; 
middle toe and claw, 1°35. 
Younger Birds have the eyebrow-stripes and greater part of the 
chin and throat d/ack, 
Range.—Southern Mexico. States of Colima, Guerrero, and 
Puebla, 
THE CRESTED QUAILS. GENUS EUPSYCHORTYX, 
Lupsychortyx, Gould, Monogr. Odontoph. pl. 10 in pt. i. 
(1844); Introd. p. 15 (1850). 
Type, £. leucopogon (Lesson). 
Sexes different in plumage. Curest well or fairly we/Zdeve- 
loped. 
First primary flight-feather ¢termediate in length between 
the eighth and ninth ; fourth slightly the longest. 
Tail composed of ¢zve/ve feathers, rather more than half the 
length of the wing. 
Tarsus shorter than the middle toe and claw. 
Eight small Quail-like species are known. 
I. THE CURAGAO CRESTED QUAIL. EUPSYCHORTYX CRISTATUS. 
Tetrac cristatus, Linn. S. N. 1. p. 277 (1766). 
Ortyx temmincki, Steph. in Shaw’s Gen. Zool. xi. p. 381 
(1819). 
Ortyx neoxenus, Vigors, P. Z. S. 1830, p. 3. 
Eupsychortyx cristatus, Gould, Monogr. Odontoph. pt. ii. pl. 
g (1846); Hartert, Ibis, 1893, pp. 305, 325; Ogilvie- 
Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 407:(1893). 
Perdix neoxenus, Aud. Orn. Biogr. v. p. 228, pl. 423 (1849). 
Eupsychortyx godt, Berlepsch, J. f. O. 1892, p. 100. 
