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Range.— Resident in the Plateau and Pacific slope of Honduras (Teguci- 

 galpa, Monte Redondo, Comayaguela, El Caliche, Catacamas, Sabana 

 Grande, Omoa, Comayagua, etc.). 



Type locality. — Flores, between Omoa and Comayagua, Honduras. 



Ortyx leylandi Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 18S9, 62 (Flores, between Omoa and 

 Comayagua, Honduras; coll. Derby Museum; descr. ; spec; crit.).— Sclatee 

 and Salvin, Ibis, 18S9, 226 (between Omoa and Comayagua, Honduras). — 

 Taylor, Ibis, 1860, 312 (Comayagua, Honduras; habits). 



[Ortyx] leylandi Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 137, part (Honduras). 



Eupsychortyx leucofrenatus Elliot, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. New York, vii, 1860, 106, 

 pi. 3 (Honduras). 



Eupsychortyx leylandi Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. Birds Mus., xxii, 1893, 411, part (Hon- 

 duras) ; Handb. Game Birds, ii, 1897, 132, part (Honduras).— Salvin and 

 GoDMAN, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, iii, 1903, 295, part (between Omoa and 

 Comayagua, Honduras). 



E[upsychortyx] leylandi Seth-Smith, L'Oiseau, x, 1929, 762 (care in captivity). 



[Eupsychortyx] leylandi Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 45, part (Honduras). 



Eupsychortyx lelandi Stone, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Ixxxiv, 1932, 302 

 (Honduras ; Omoa and Comayagua) . 



Colinus leucopogon leylcmdi Conovee, Condor, xxxiv, 1932, 17S (Honduras; Dept. 

 Tegucigalpa — Monte Redondo, Comayaguela ; spec. ) . — Peters, Check-list Birds 

 World, ii, 1934, SO, part (western Honduras). 



Clolinus] l[eucopogon] sclateri Dickey and van Rossem, Birds El Salvador, 1938, 

 149, in text, part (Honduras). 



[ColitMs] {leucopogon] leylandi Sassi, Temminckia, iii, 1938, 305 in text (central 

 and northern Honduras). 



Colinus cristatus sclateri Hellmayr and Conovee, Cat. Birds Amer., i, No. 1, 1942, 

 250, part (Honduras; syn.). 



COLINUS LEUCOPOGON SCLATERI (Bonaparte) 



Sclateb's Quail 



Adult male. — Similar to that of the Honduranian race but with the 

 malar and postorbital stripe warm buff to pale honey yellow, instead of 

 white ; the breast and the brown shaft areas of the feathers of the middle 

 of the abdomen more rufescent — light cinnamon-brown instead of snuff 

 brown finely mixed with gray; upperparts of body also more brownish, 

 less grayish, the dark blotches on the lower back, rump, and upper tail 

 coverts larger and more richly colored. 



Adult female.- — Similar to that of the Honduranian race but with the 

 chin, throat, and superciliary stripes usually more heavly suffused with 

 yellowish — ochraceous-buff to honey yellow instead of light pinkish buff 

 to pale ochraceous-buff — and slightly darker on the upper parts of the 

 body, the dark blotches averaging larger and deeper. 



Other plumages apparently unknown. 



Adult male.— Wing 97.8-102.4 (100.4) ; tail 52.1-64.2 (57.0) ; culmen 

 from base 14.0-16.3 (15.2) ; tarsus 28.2-30.9 (29.6) ; middle toe without 

 claw 23.4-25.1 (24.4 mm.)." 



" Nine specimens from Nicaragua. 



