146 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY. 
First primary flight-feather zx/ermediate in length between 
the seventh and eighth ; fourth slightly longest. 
Tail composed of ‘¢we/ve feathers, less than half the length 
of the wing. 
Tarsus shorter than the middle toe and claw. 
Claws very long. 
I. THE MASSENA HARLEQUIN QUAIL. CYRTONYX 
MONTEZUM. 
Ortyx montesum@, Vigors, Zool. Journ. v. p. 275 (1830) ; Jar- 
dine and Selby, Il. Orn. ii. pl. 126. 
Ortyx massena, Lesson, Ill. Zool. pl. 52 (1831). 
Tetrao guttata, La Llave, Reg. Trim. i. p. 114 (1831). 
Odontophorus meleagris, Wagler, Isis, 1832, p. 277. 
Cyrtonyx massena, Gould, Monogr. Odontoph. pt. i. pl. 7 
(1844) >°Cassin, Hl 3. 'Cal--p- 21, play. (1653). 
Cyrtonyx montesume, Bendire, N. Am. B. p. 35, pl. 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 d/ack-and-white 
pattern ; general colour above pale rufous, thickly barred with 
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 pared white spots 
down each web; rest of under-parts deep black. ‘Total length, 
8:2; wing, 5°1; tail, 2°2; tarsus, 1°1; middle toe and claw, 
I°4. 
Adult Female-—Head and throat zzthout black-and-white 
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 in the male; under-parts 
pale vinaceous, shading into buff towards the middle, and more 
or less spotted and marked with black. Total length, 7°8 
