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Adult female.— Wing 97.4-100.8 (99.4) ; tail 51.3-54.3 (52.9) ; culmen 

 from base 14.3-15.8 (15.0) ; tarsus 29.1-30.8 (29.9) ; middle toe without 

 claw 23.5-24.1 (23.8 mm.).« 



Range. — Resident in the Plateau and Pacific slope of Nicaragua (San 

 Geronimo, Chinandega, Sucuya, Ocotal, Matagalpa, Granada, etc.). 



Type locality. — None originally indicated ; restricted to western Nicara- 

 gua by van Rossem ( Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., Ixxvii, 1934, 486) . 



Eupsychortyx sclateri Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., xlii, 1856, 883, 954 (no locality 



indicated =i western Nicaragua; type in Paris Musetim). — van Rossem, Bull, 



Mus. Comp. Zool., Ixxvii, 1934, 486 (crit.). 

 Ortyx leylandi Nutting, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vi, 1884, 390 (Sucuya, Nicaragua). 

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



(Chinandega, Nicaragua) ; Hand. Game Birds, ii, 1897, 132, part (Nicaragua). — 



Salvin and Godm.a.n, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, iii, 1903, 295, part (Paraiso, 



Jalapa, Sucuya, Ocotal, Matagalpa, and Chinandega, Nicaragua). — Rendahl, 



Ark. Zool., xii. No. 8, 1919, 10 (Granada, w. shore of Lake Nicaragua, 



Nicaragua) . 

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

 Colinus leucopogon leylandi Dickey and van Rossem, Condor, xxxii, 1930, 73, part 



(w. Nicaragua). — Peters, Check-list Birds of World, ii, 1934, 50, part 



(Nicaragua). 

 C[olvnus] l[eucopogon] sclateri Dickey and van Rossem, Birds El Salvador,. 1938, 



149, in text, part (w. Nicaragua). 

 [Colinus] [leucopogon] sclateri Sassi, Temminckia, iii, 1938, 305, in text (nw. 



Nicaragua) . 

 [Colinus] [leucopogon] [dickeyi] Sassi, Temminckia, iii, 1938, 305, in text, part (sw. 



Nicaragua). 

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



250, part (syn. ; distr. ; Nicaragua). 



COLINUS LEUCOPOGON DICKEYI Conorer 



Dickey's Quail 



Adult fimle. — ^Very similar to that of Colinus leucopogon sclateri but 

 with the feathers of the upper throat with extensive white centers. 



Adult female.— 'Not certainly distinguishable from that of the Hondu- 

 ranian race C. I. leylandi, but with the chin and throat averaging somewhat 

 huffier. 



Juvenal. — Like that of C. I. leylandi. 



Natal down. — Like that of C. I. leylandi. 



Adult male.— Wing 93.2-104.7 (98.9) ; tail 50.1-55.4 (53.1) ; culmen 

 from base 13.7-15.6 (14.6) ; tarsus 27.1-29.8 (28.6) ; middle toe without 

 claw 21.2-25.0 (23.2 mm.).« 



Adult female.— Wing 95.1-99.4 (98.0) ; tail 51.1-53.4 (52.5) ; culmen 

 from base 14.3-15.5 (14.5) ; tarsus 26.1-29.3 (27.7) ; middle toe without 

 claw 22-24.1 (22.9 mm.)." 



" Five specimens from Nicaragua. 

 " Eleven specimens from Costa Rica. 

 " Six specimens from Costa Rica. 



