1920 J Todd, The Genus Eupsychortyx. 197 



Eupsichortyx sonninii Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., XLII, 1856, 883 (in 

 list of species). 



Eupsichortyx parvicristata Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., XLII, 1856, 883 

 (in list of species). 



Ortyx parvirostris (lapsus) Gray, List Spec. Birds Brit. Mus., V, 1867, 

 77 ("Bogota," Colombia; references). 



Eupsychortyx cristatus (not Tetrao cristatus Linnseus) Salvin, Ibis, 1886, 

 175 (Cabanis' British Guiana reference). — (?) Heine and Reichenow, 

 Nom. Mus. Heineani Orn., 1887, 294, part ("Guiana"). 



Odontophorus sonnini Gceldi, Aves do Brazil, ii, 1894, 439 (Rio Branco, 

 Brazil) . 



Eupsychortyx [sonnini] Ferry, Condor, X, 1908, 226 (Caracas, Vene- 

 zuela; habits). 



Colinus cristatus parvicristatus Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 

 XXXVI, 1917, 199 (Fomeque and Quetame, Colombia; range; crit.). 



Description. — Male: forehead, lores, and crown varying from soiled 

 white to buffy or grayish brown, the crest similar but usually darker; 

 broad superciliaries, beginning above the eye, amber brown, margined 

 above by a narrow and irregular line of black; auriculars hair brown or 

 drab; nape ochraceous tawny, varied with black bars on the feathers; 

 throat amber brown; neck all around with a collar of black and white 

 and chestnut spots, this collar broadest on the sides of the neck, where 

 it is produced forward to the auriculars; upper parts varying from auburn 

 to bister or sepia, tinged more or less with grayish, vermiculated with 

 black and irregularly mottled with black and brown; tertiaries and scapu- 

 lars similar but more boldly marked, the feathers with buffy margins, 

 giving a streaked appearance; tail mouse gray or hair brown, or even 

 dusky, indistinctly barred and mottled with whitish or buffy; wings hair 

 brown, the secondaries mottled with buffy or grayish on the outer webs, 

 the upper coverts colored like the back; under wing-coverts hair brown, 

 margined and tipped with white; breast russet, tinged with grayish, nearly 

 or quite immaculate, but showing faint and irregular dusky vermicula- 

 tions, especially laterally; rest of under parts chestnut or amber brown, 

 passing into buffy posteriorly, everywhere spotted with white, each spot 

 surrounded (except on the outer margin) with black; under tail-coverts 

 white or buffy white, sometimes tinged with ochraceous, with notched 

 black shaft-streaks; "iris brown; bill black; feet pale horn color" (Car- 

 riker). 



Female similar in general to the male, but head and under parts dif- 

 ferent; forehead, crown, and crest much darker, brown or nearly black, 

 the nape similar, varied with ochraceous; superciliaries and throat raw 

 sienna to ochraceous tawny, the throat spotted or streaked, more or less 

 heavily, with black; neck-collar of black and white spots almost obsolete 

 in front; spots on the under surface beginning close up to the throat on 



