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subterminal blotch of fuscous-black ; under wing coverts dull wood brown 

 to hair brown, margined with slightly paler. 



Adult female. — Like the male but with the coronal crest shorter. 



Juvenal. — Similar to the adult but with the forehead, lores, chin, throat, 

 and cheeks black, the blackish coronal crest banded with bright hazel, 

 the black of the forehead extending back over the eyes, and the whole 

 crown hazel irregularly transversely mottled with black ; the feathers of 

 sides and back of neck, interscapulars, upper back, upper wing coverts, 

 and secondaries with narrow white or buffy-white shaft streaks and with 

 the rest of the feathers tawnier, the pale cross bars pale tawny-olive and 

 pale antique brown, the interspaces bright tawny-olive; rump, upper tail 

 coverts, and rectrices slightly paler and more olivaceous, less dusky than 

 in adult; primaries more pointed and with their outer webs more dis- 

 tinctly notched with pale pinkish buffy; bill light reddish brown; tarsi 

 and toes horn brown. 



Adult male.— Wing 9S-102.S (99) ; tail 58.3-66 (61.8) ; culmen from 

 base 14.3-15.9 (14.9) ; tarsus 26.7-29.7 (28.2) ; middle toe without claw 

 24-27.6 (25.7 mm.)." 



Adult female.— W'mg 94-104 (98.7) ; tail 59-68 (62.3) ; culmen from 

 base 14.9-15.5 (15.2) ; tarsus 26.7-29.7 (28.5) ; middle toe without claw 

 24-27.9 (25.4 mm.). 68 



Range. — Resident in open bushy places in southwestern Mexico; in 

 the states of Colima, Guerrero, Michoacan, Morelos, and Puebla. 



Type locality. — California = Mexico. 



Ortyx fasciatus Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1843 (1844), 133 ("California"; 

 coll. Mus. Prince Massena, now in coll. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia; ex Nat- 

 terer, manuscript). — Cooper, Bull. Nuttall Orn. Club, ii, 1877, 95 (not known 

 north of Colima, Mexico). 



Philortyx fasciatus Gould, Monogr. Odontoph., pt. 2, 1846, 17, pi. 14 and text. — 

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

 Mem. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., ii, 1874, 307 (plains of Colima, sw. Mexico).— 

 RiDGWAY, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., ix, 1886, 177, in text (Colima).— Ogilvie- 

 Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxii, 1893, 406 (plains of Colima; Sierra Madre 

 del Sur and Dos Arroyos, Guerrero) ; Handb. Game Birds, ii, 1897, 127 

 (monogr.). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, iii, 1903, 294 (Co- 

 lima; Sierra Madre del Sur; Dos Arroyos; Chietta, Puebla). — Todd, Auk, 

 xxxvii, 1920, 217, in text (syn.). — Griscom, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., Ixxv, 1934, 

 422 (Guerrero).— Peters, Check-list Birds of World, ii, 1934, 46 (distr.).— 

 Hellmayr and Conovee, Cat. Birds Amer., i. No. 1, 1942, 238 (syn.; distr.).— 

 Blake and Hanson, Publ. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Zool. Ser., xxii. No. 9, 1942, 

 527 (Michoacan; Apatzingan ; spec). 



[Philortyx] fasciatus Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 45. 



Phylortix fasciatus Cubas, Cuadro Geogr., Estadistico, Descr. e Hist, de los Esta- 

 dos Mexicanos, 1884, 168 (common names; Mexico). 



" Ten specimens from Michoacan, Guerrero, and Morelos. 



°" Six specimens from Michoacan, Guerrero, Colima, and Morelos. 



