^10 Todd, The Genus Eupsychortyx. [April 



Eupsychortyx leucopogon decoratus Todd. 



Plate V, figure 6. 



Eupsychortyx parvicristatus (not Ortyx parvicrislatus Gould) Heine and 



Reichenow, Nom. Mus. Heineani Orn., 1887, 294, part (Barran- 



quilla, Colombia). 

 Eupsychortyx leucotis (not Ortyx leucotis Gould) Robinson, A Flying 



Trip to the Tropics, 1895, 153, part (Barranquilla, Colombia). 

 Eupsychortyx decoratus Todd, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, XXX, 1917, 



6 (Calamar, Colombia; orig. descr.; type in coll. Carnegie Mus.). 

 Colinus cristatus decoratus Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XXXVI, 



1917, 198 (Calamar and Turbaco, Colombia; crit.). 



Subspeeific characters. — Similar to Eupsychortyx leucopogon leucotis, but 

 more richly and deeply colored throughout, the male with the throat 

 rich chestnut, the breast almost or quite concolor, and the white spots 

 smaller; sides and flanks very heavily marked with chestnut; superciliary 

 and malar stripes much varied with black. Female more heavily marked 

 below, the throat more decidedly tinged with buffy ochraceous, and more 

 heavily streaked with black. 



Measurements. — Male (seven specimens): wing, 99-105 (average, 103); 

 tail, 60-69 (66); bill, 12.5-13 (13); tarsus, 29-31 (30). Female (five 

 specimens): wing, 101-106 (102); tail, 60-63 (61); bill, 12-13 (12.7); 

 tarsus, 28-29 (28.5). 



Range. — Lower Magdalena Valley, Colombia, and westward along the 

 coast at least to the Sinu River. 



Remarks. — A small series of quail collected by Mr. Carriker 

 at Calamar, on the lower Magdalena River, and Punto Zapote, in 

 the delta of the Sinu River, were at first referred to leucotis, until 

 comparison with specimens from the interior of Colombia showed 

 that they did not belong to that form. So strongly marked did 

 their characters appear by comparison, and such was the uncer- 

 tainty in the writer's mind as to the inter-relations of this group, 

 that he preferred to treat the new form provisionally as a full 

 species. It is certainly a strongly marked subspecies, differing 

 from leucotis in its much richer coloration throughout, and from 

 leucopogon by its rather paler, more rufescent, less brownish 

 upper parts, decidedly darker breast, and in particular by the 

 restriction of the white area on the head, in which latter respect 

 it resembles leucotis. Unlike either of these forms, however, it 

 has the superciliaries conspicuously streaked with black, and 



