Vol. XXXVII 1 

 1920 



Todd, The Genus Eupsychortyx. 201 



states that in British Guiana the species occurs in flocks of from 

 twelve to eighteen individuals in the oases of the savannas, out- 

 side of which it rarely ventures far, running or flying into the 

 woods upon being disturbed. The late John F. Ferry, who met 

 with the bird near Caracas, Venezuela, says that he flushed a 

 covey among the forlorn, bushy hills of that section, where they 

 darted off and sought safety in a patch of the densest shrubbery. 

 Returning a few days later he again flushed them in the same 

 spot and succeeded in securing a specimen. "All their habits 

 that I observed were typically quail-like." 



Specimens examined. — Colombia: "Bogota," 2; Fomeque, 2; 

 Palmar, Boyaca, 3. Venezuela: Caracas, 4; Naguanagua, 1; El 

 Trompillo, Carabobo, 10; San Antonio, Bermudez, 1; Agua Salada 

 de Ciudad Bolivar, 3; Altagracia, 2; San Mateo de Caicara, 1; 

 Maripa, Rio Caura, 6; San German de Upata, 1. British Guiana: 

 Courantyne River, 2. Dutch Guiana: " Surinam," 1 ; Paramaribo, 

 1; "Guiana," 1. Brazil: Serra da Lua, near Boa Vista, 5. West 

 Indies: St. Thomas, 3. Unspecified, 4. Total, 53. 



Eupsychortyx sonnini mocquerysi Hartert. 



Plate V, figure 3. 



Eupsychortyx sonnini (not Perdix sonnini Temminck) Cassin, Proc. 

 Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1860, 378, part (Cumana, Venezuela). — 

 Ogilvie-Grant, Ibis, 1902, 239, part (Margarita I., Venezuela, ex 

 Richmond) . 



Eupsychortyx mocquerysi Hartert, Bull. British Orn. Club, III, 1894, 

 37 (Cumana, Venezuela; orig. descr.; type in coll. Tring Mus.) — Hart- 

 ert, Ibis, 1894, 430 (reprint orig. descr.).— Hartert, Nov. Zool., I, 

 1894, 675, pi. 15, fig. 2 (Cumana, Venezuela; crit.). — Ogilvie-Grani, 

 Hand-Book Game-Birds, II, 1897, 131 (syn.; descr.; range).- — Sharpe, 

 Hand-List Birds, I, 1899, 45 (ref. descr.; range). — Dubois, Syn. Avium, 

 II, 1902, 820 (references; range). — Brabourne and Chubb, Birds 

 S. Am., I, 1912, 13 (ref. orig. descr.; range). 



Eupsychortyx pallidus Richmond, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XVIII, 1896, 

 657 (Margarita I., Venezuela; orig. descr.; type in coll. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus.; habits, ex Robinson). — Sharpe, Hand-List Birds, I, 1899, 45 

 (ref. orig. descr.; range). — Clark, Auk, XIX, 1902, 260 (Margarita I., 

 Venezuela; habits). — Lowe, Ibis, 1907, 551 (Margarita I., Venezuela; 

 crit.). — Lowe, Ibis, 1909, 322 (Cariaco Peninsula, Venezuela). — Knowl- 



