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Adult male.— Wing 95-100.5 (98.7) ; tail 47-53 (48.9) ; culmen from 

 base 14.8-15.8 (15.2) ; tarsus 25.7-29.2 (27.2) ; middle toe without claw 

 23.5-25.6 (24.3 mm.). 18 



Adult female.— Wing 98-99; tail 49-53.5 ; culmen from base 14.8-15.6 ; 

 tarsus 28.3-29.2; middle toe without claw 25-26 mm. (2 specimens). 



Range. — Resident in the Tropical Zone along the eastern base of the 

 CordiUera of central Veracruz from 500 to 5,000 feet (Jalapa, Orizaba, 

 Carrizal, Coatepec, La Estranzuela, Cordoba, Llanos de Paso de Ore j as). 



Type locality. — Mexico. 



Ortyx pectoralis Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1842 (1843), 182 (Mexico; coll. 

 Earl of Derby) ; Monogr. Odontoph., pt. 3, 1850, pi. 5 and text. — Hartlaub, 

 Journ. fiir Orn., 1854, 412 (descr. female). — Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 

 1856, 310 (Cordoba, Veracruz) ; 1857, 206 (Jalapa, Veracruz).— Gray, List 

 Birds Brit. Mus., pt. 5, Gallinae, 1867, 76. — Sumichrast, Mem. Boston Soc. 

 Nat. Hist., i, 1869, 560 (tierra caliente of Veracruz). — Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. 

 Birds Brit. Mus., xxii, 1893, 421 (Jalapa) ; Handb. Game Birds, ii, 1897, 142; 

 Ibis, 1902, 240 (crit.). — Beristain and Laui!Encio, Mem. y Rev. Soc. Cient. 

 "Antonio Alzate,'' vii, 1894, 219, part (Veracruz). — Nelson, Auk, xix, 1902, 

 pi. 14, fig. 1. — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, iii, 1903, 299, 

 part (Llanos de Paso de Orejas, La Estranzuela, Orizaba, Cordoba, and Carrizal, 

 Veracruz). 



[Ortyx] pectoralis Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 137. 



[rtex] pectoralis CtiBAS, Cuadro Geogr., Estadistico, Descr., e Hist, de los Estados 

 Unidos Mexicanos, 1884, 175 (common names; Mexico). 



Colinus pectoralis Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., i, 1886, 289, in text (crit.). — 

 Nelson, Auk, xv, 1898, 117, in text (near Orizaba), 121 (e. base, of Cordillera 

 in Veracruz; Jalapa to Isthmus of Tehuantepec, 500 to 5,000 feet alt.). — 

 Lantz, Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci. for 1896-7 (1899), 219 (Coatepec, Vera- 

 cruz). — Nelson, Auk, xix, 1902, pi. xiv, fig. 1 (descr.; plum.). 



C[olinus] pectoralis Ridgway, Man. North Amer. Birds, 1887, 189. — Bailey, Avicult. 

 Mag., ser. 3, ix, 1918, 114 (breeding in captivity). — Reichenow, Die Vogel, i, 

 1913, 315. 



[Colimis] pectoralis Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 45. 



C[olinus] v[irginianus] pectoralis Bangs and Peters, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 

 Ixviii, 1928, 386, in text.— Seth-Smith, L'Oiseau, x, 1929, 763, in text (care 

 in captivity). 



Colimis virginianus pectoralis Peters, Check-list Birds World, ii, 1934, 48 (e. base 

 of the Cordillera in Veracruz from Jalapa to the Isthmus of Tehuantepec).— 

 Hellmaye and Conover, Cat. Birds Amer., i, No. 1, 1942, 243 (syn. ; distr.). 



COLINUS VIRGINIANUS GODMANI kelson 



Godman's Bobwhite 



Adult male. — ^Above very similar in coloration to that of Colinus virgi- 

 nianus pectoralis but with the dark blotches on the back, lower back, and 

 wings averaging larger and darker; below like pectoralis as far as the 

 head and throat are concerned ; breast blackish but the basal parts of the 

 feathers not white as in pectoralis but orange-cinnamon ; abdomen bright 



" Four specimens. 



