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Adult female.— Wing 101-112 (106.9); tail 54.5-67 (59.6); culmen 

 from cere 14.5-17.2 (15.6) ; tarsus 28.1-32.5 (30.3) ; middle toe without 

 claw 25.4-27.9 (26.2 mm.).io 



Range. — Resident in the southern part of the tableland of Mexico from 

 northern Jalisco (Ameca, Etzatlan, Guadalajara, Hacienda El Molino, 

 Hacienda El Rosario, La Barca, Lagos, Lake Chapala, Ocotlan, Santa 

 Ana, and Tuxpan) ; western and southern San Luis Potosi (Rio Verde, 

 Hacienda Angostura) ; and southeastern Nayarit (Rio Ameca, near 

 Amatlan de Canos) to Guanajuato (Guanajuato and Celaya) ; Hidalgo 

 (Pachuca) ; and northern Morelos (Alpuyeca). 



Type locality. — Guadalajara, Jalisco ; Mexico. 



Ortyx graysoni Lawrence, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. New York, viii, 1867, 476 (Guada- 

 lajara, Jalisco, w. Mexico; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.) ; Mem. Boston Soc. Nat. 

 Hist., ii, 1874, 306 (Guadalajara; habits). — Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. 

 Mus., xxii, 1893, 422 (Santa Ana, near Guadalajara, and Lake Chapala, Jalisco) ; 

 Handb. Game Birds, ii, 1897, 142, pi. 32 (fig.; descr.; distr.; habtis).— Salvin 

 and GoDMAN, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, iii, 1903, 300 (Guadalajara, Santa Ana 

 near Guadalajara, Hacienda El Rosario, Hacienda El Molino, and Lake Chapala, 

 Jalisco; Hacienda Angostura, San Luis Potosi). 



0[rtix] graysoni Cubas, Cuadro Geogr., Estadistico, Descr. e Hist, de los Estados 

 Unidos Mexicanos, 1884, 175 (common names). 



Colinus graysoni Stejneger, Auk, ii, 1885, 45. — Ridgway, Man. North Amer. Birds, 

 189, 1887, 189, 585.— Chapman, Auk, v, 1888, 401 (deleted from Check-list).— 

 JouY, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xvi, 1894, 790 (Guadalajara and Hacienda El 

 Molino, Jalisco; Hacienda Angostura, San Luis Potosi). — Nelson, Auk, xv, 

 1898, 121 (San Luis Potosi and n. Jalisco to Valley of Mexico, 3,000 to 7,500 

 feet).- — DEL Campo, Anal. Inst. Biol., viii. No. 3, 1937, 336 (Morelos; Alpuyeca; 

 spec). 



Clolinus] graysoni Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., i, 1886, 289, 290. in text 

 (crit.). 



[Colimcs] graysoni Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 46. 



Clolinus] v[irginianus] graysoni Bangs and Peters, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 

 Ixviii, 1928, 386, in text (crit). 



Colinus virginianus graysoni Peters, Check-list Birds of World, ii, 1934, 48 (s. 

 Mexican tableland from n. Jalisco, w. and s. San Luis Potosi, south to the 

 Valley of Mexico). — Aldeich, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, Iv, 1942, 68, in 

 text (sw. San Luis Potosi southward). — Hellmayr and Conover, Cat. Birds 

 Amer., i. No. 1, 1942, 243 (syn. ; distr.). 



COLINUS VIRGINIANUS NIGRIPECTUS Nelson 



Puebla Boewhite 



Adiilt male. — Similar to that of Colinus virginianus graysoni above; 

 similar also below but with the blackish pectoral band very much broader, 

 extending from the posterior margin of the white throat patch over the 

 entire breast and the sides of the neck, this black area considerably blotched 



'° Fourteen specimens from Jalisco, San Luis Potosi, Guadalajara, and Guana- 

 juato. 



