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orange-cinnamon to hazel, the feathers broadly margined with black, those 

 of the midventral area with these margins so broad as to leave only a 

 narrow shaft line (wider basally) of cinnamon causing the appearance of 

 a large midabdominal continuation of the black pectoral band; feathers 

 of thighs and vent with a white lateroterminal spot on each web, these 

 spots proximally bordered with black. 



Adult female. — Very similar in coloration to that of Colinus virginianus 

 pectoralis but with more rufescent on the interscapulars, and with the 

 upper tail coverts also more rufescent ; size smaller. 



Other plumages apparently unknown. 



Adult male. — ^Wing 98.5 ; tail 56.5 ; culmen from base 14.4; tarsus 26.0; 

 middle toe without claw 23.1 mm. (1 specimen). 



Adult female.— Wing 94.5-96.5 (95.0) ; tail 49.5-54 (51.8) ; culmen 

 from base 13.5-14.7 (14.0) ; tarsus 25.9-28.5 (27.1) ; middle toe without 

 claw 22.2-26.2 (22.9mm.).i9 



Range. — Resident in the lowlands of southern Veracruz (Catemaco, 

 Jaltipan, Minantlan) and probably Tabasco from sea level up to about 

 1500 feet. 



Type locality. — Jaltipan, Veracruz, Mexico. 



Colinus godmani Nelson, Auk, xiv, 1897, 45 (Jaltipan, Veracruz, se. Mexico; coll. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus.) ; xv, 1898, 121, pi. 2 (lowlands of s. Veracruz; Tabasco ?; sea 

 level to 1,500 feet) ; xix, 1902, pi, 14, fig. 4. 



[Colinus] godmOni Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 46. 



Ortyx' godmani Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Amer., iii, sig. 38, Feb. 1903, 301 

 (coast plain above Jaltipan and Minantlan and n. to Lake Catemaco, Veracruz) . 



Colinus virginianus godmani Peters, Check-list Birds of World, ii, 1934, 48 (low- 

 lands of southern Veracruz) .—Hellmayr and Conover, Cat. Birds Amer., i, 

 No. 1, 1942, 244 (syn.; distr.). — Brodkorb, Misc. Publ. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michi- 

 gan, No. 56, 1943, 31 (Veracruz, Mexico). 



COLINUS VIRGINIANUS MINOR Nelson 



Least Bobwhite 



Adult male. — ^Above very similar to that of Colinus virginianus god- 

 mani; below differs in that the black pectoral band is much narrower, the 

 feathers of the lower breast, upper abdomen, sides, and flanks orange- 

 cinnamon edged with black, feathers of the midventral part with these 

 margins much broader, forming a conspicuously blackish streaked area 

 (in some specimens these feathers have a good deal of white subterminally, 

 in others none at all) ; thighs and vent spotted with white and barred 

 irregularly and incompletely with black as in godmani; size smaller. 



Adult female. — Very similar to that of C. v. godmani but generally less 

 rufescent, more dusky brown; the edges of the coronal feathers more 

 grayish than brownish, back, rump, and upper tail coverts much less 



" Three specimens from Veracruz. 



