Compendium der neu beschriebenen Gattungen und Arten. 409 
Fam. PERDICIDAE. 
187. Callipepla squamata pallida. 
W. Brewster, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club vor 6 1881 p. 72. 
General coloring very pale and bleached. There is not the 
slightest trace of the usual rusty chestnut patch on the abdomen, 
that part being nearly concolor with the lower portion ot the 
breast. The yellowish-rusty of the anal region and erissum is very 
light in tint, and the bluish cast on the breast is barely appre- 
ciable. The bill, also, is shorter and slenderer than in Texas 
examples. 
Hab.: Arizona. 
188. Francolinus ochrogaster. 
G. Hartlaub, Journ. Ornith. 30. Jahrg. 1882 p. 327. 
Fr. pileato valde affinis, sed minor, rostro et pedibus debilio- 
ribus: regione gastraei maculis subtriangularibus fuseis notata 
multo minus extensa; abdomine medio et imo, crisso et cruribus 
saturate ochraceis, immaculatis; subcaudalibus dilute ferrugineis. 
Hab.: Obere Nielgebiete. 
189. Perdicula manipurensis. 
A. Hume, Stray Feath. Vol. 9 No. 5—6 p. 467— Am. 
Forehead, 'a band above the eye, chin, cheeks and throat deep 
maroon; lores, a patch behind the eye, over, and another smaller 
one below, the ear-coverts, white; crown, occiput, nape, neck all 
round, entire mantle, includig the wings, grey, with olive tinge; 
tail black, narrowly, but not closely, barred with olive grey; breast, 
sides and flanks buff, with a black shaft stripe and a black cross 
bar a quarter of an inch from the end, the two expanding where 
they cross into a sort of diamond; these black markings narrower 
on the breast, broader on the sides and flanks, abdomen,. vent and 
tibial plumes pale dull fulvous, obscurely barred with dusky; lower 
tail-coverts black, tipped with white, and most of the feathers with 
a pair of white spots one on each web. The female wants the ma- 
roon head markings. Legs and feet dull orange. Length 7,7; 
tail 2,2; wing 3,3; tarsus 1 inches. 
Hab.: Manipur, Indien. 
Fam. TETRAONEDAE. 
+190. ZLagopus mutus atkhensis. 
L. M. Turner, Proc. Un. St. Nat. Mus. July 29 1882 p. 230. 
Ground color of upper parts light olive brown, altogether lighter 
than in the corresponding plumage of »wpestris. The whole sur- 
face very finely and densely vermieulated with black. The tips of 
many of the feathers lighter and more grayish, with very narrow 
erescentic terminal bar of whitish. The eround color of head and 
nape above is more yellowish than that “of the back. The crown 
spotted with black ground color of foreneck, jugulum, and upper 
breast light fulvous or yellowish-brown, distinetly and somewhat 
regularly barred with black. The upper breast, sides, and flanks 
| similar, but more finely and distinetly barred with dusky. The 
