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Mountain Partridge are admitted : — 1. Oreortyx pictus 
(Doiigl.) ; 2. 0. plumiferus (Gould) ; and 3. O. confinis 
Anthony. 
3. EUPSYCHORTYX SONNINT (op. cit. p. 409). 
Eupsychortyoc pallidus Richmond, P. U. S. Nat. Mus. 
xviii. p. 657 (1896) [Margarita I., Venezuela], 
This species is said to be " considerably paler " than 
E. sonninii. 
Mr. Richmond admits having very scanty material for 
comparison (one male and one female). In a series of 
typical birds from Quonga, British Guiana, collected by 
H. Whitely, considerable variation is found in the plumage, 
some being^ much paler on the breast and some darker. This 
species was introduced into Mustique Island^ Grenadines, 
W.I., about 1885, and there is a male in the British Museum 
collection procured on that island by D. W. Smith. It is very 
likely to have been introduced into Margarita Island. In 
any case the description does not lead one to believe that 
Mr. Richmond has much faith in the validity of the species; 
and^ after re-examining our specimens from British Guiana^ 
I have no hesitation in regarding E. pallidus as a synonym 
of E. sonninii. 
CoLiNUS Less. Man. d^Orn. ii. p. 190 (1828) must stand in 
place of Ortyoj Steph. in Shaw's Gen. Zool. xi. p. 376 (1819) 
[nee Oken, Lehrb. Nat. iii.^ Zool. pt. ii. p. 611 (1816) : type_, 
Turnix sylvaticus (Desf.)]"^. 
1 B. Ortyx virginianus subsp. b. TEXANus (op. cit. p. 419). 
Colinus virginianus maculatus Nelson, Auk, xvi. p. 26 
(1899) [from Tancanhuitz, San Luis Potosi, north to Victoria, 
and Jaumave Valley, Tamaulipas, Mexico]. 
* [We fail to see why "Ortyx,''^ which has, until recently, been the 
title of this well-known group, should be superseded by Colinus. It is 
tbe fact that " Ortyx'' was casually mentioned by Oken in his ' Lehrbuch ' 
as a synonym of Turnix, but it does not seem at all certain that Oken 
meant to propose " Ortyx " as a new generic term. At any rate it has 
never been used in place of Turnix. Let us give " Ortyx " the benefit 
of the doubt. — Edd.] 
