BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMEPaCA 245 



Range. — Resident in the mountain forests of the Valley of Mexico 

 and the highlands of Veracruz. 



Type locality. — Mexico = mountains about the Valley of Mexico. 



Ortyx macroura Jaedine and Selby, lUustr. Orn., i, pt. 3, 1828, pis. 38, 49 and text 



(Mexico).— J ARDiNE, Nat. Libr., Orn., iv, 1834, 128, pi. 12. 

 Dendrortyx macrnrus Gould, Monogr. Odontoph., pt. 1, 1844, pi. 20 and text. — 



ScLATER, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1864, 178 (near City of Mexico). — Gray, 



List Birds Brit. Mus., Gallinae, 1867, 73. — Beeistain and Laurencio, Mem. 



y Rev. Soc. Cient. "Antonio Alzate," vii, 1894, 219 (Orizaba).— Ogilvie-Grant, 



Ibis, 1902, 237. — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, iii, 1903, 287, 



part (alpine region of Orizaba, Veracruz). 

 [Dendrortyx] macrurus Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 272, No. 9771.— Sclater and 



Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 138, part.— Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 43, part. 

 Dendrortyx macrounu Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxii, 1893, 392, 



part (in synonymy; descr.?). — Nelson, Auk, xiv, 1897, 44, in text (crit.). 

 D[etidrortyx] inacronrns Reichenow, Die Vogel, i, 1913, 315. 

 Dendrortyx macrorus Ogilvie-Grant, Handb. Game Birds, ii, 1897, 112 part (s. 



Mexico; highlands of Oaxaca). 

 [Odontophorus] macrourus Reichenbach, Synop. Av., iii, 1848, pi. 194, figs. 1692, 



1693. 

 Dendrortyx macroiwa macroura Peters, Check-list Birds of World, ii, 1934, 42. — 



Hellmayr and Conover, Cat. Birds Amer., i. No. 1, 1942, 225 (syn. ; distr.). 

 [Dendrortyx macroura] macroura Griscom, Auk, liv, 1937, 192, in text (crit.). 

 Tetrao marmoratus La Llave, Registro Trimestro, i, 1832, 144 (mountains near 



City of Mexico) ; La Naturaleza, vii, 1884, App., p. 65. 



DENDRORTYX MACROURA GRISEIPECTUS Nelson 



Gray-breasted Long-tailed Partridge 



Adult. — Similar to that of the nominate race but with the hazel shaft 

 stripes of the breast feathers confined to the basal two-thirds or less of 

 the feathers, and almost hidden by the overlapping of these feathers, giving 

 the breast a nearly uniform deep gull gray; the hazel stripes of the 

 feathers of the sides also greatly reduced; back and rump slightly more 

 olivaceous. 



Other plumages unknown. 



Adult. — Wing 167 ; tail 145 ; culmen irom base 19.5 ; tarsus 54 ; middle 

 toe without claw 42 min. (type). 



Adult female. — Wing 157; tail 131; culmen from base 20; tarsus 54; 

 middle toe without claw 40 mm. (1 specimen). 



Range. — Known only from the heavy oak forest on the Pacific slope 

 of the Cordillera, in the State of Morelos (and possibly in the State of 

 Mexico as well). 



Type locality. — Huitzilac, Morelos, Mexico. 



Dendrortyx macrurus (not Ortyx macroura Jardine and Selby) Salvin and Godman, 

 Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, iii, 1903, 287, part (Morelos). 



eesoos"— 46 — 1,7 



