382 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



DACTYLOKTYX THORACICUS THORACICUS (Gambel) 



Veracruz Long-toed Quail 



Adult male. — Sides of forehead, superciliary stripe, cheeks, chin, and 

 throat ochraceous-tawny with an orange tinge ; a dusky sepia band from 

 the lores under the eyes to the auriculars ; center of forehead, crown, and 

 occiput dark Prout's brown tinged with argus brown; the lateral feathers 

 of the occiput with buffy-white shaft streaks and, in some cases, outer 

 webs, forming a discontinuous whitish border to the occiput; nape like 

 the occiput but the feathers tipped with black, forming a narrow collar 

 of that color; interscapulars and feathers of upper back brownish drab 

 to huffy brown broadly suffused marginally and, more narrowly, termi- 

 nally with bright cinnamon-brown, the entire feather faintly vermiculated 

 with dusky; scapulars light tawny cinnamon-brown darkening to deep 

 hazel on the inner webs which are externally margined with between warm 

 buff and ochraceous-buff, next to which is a lengthwise band of blackish ; 

 the rest of the inner webs stippled with blackish; the outer webs more 

 sparsely speckled and paling to almost buffy near the margins, this buffy 

 color forming an incomplete, indefinite bar proximally edged with dusky ; 

 upper wing coverts like the scapulars but with the pale buflfy restricted 

 to the shaft stripes, the blackish on the inner webs forming a large terminal 

 blotch; the size of this blotch decreasing on the outer coverts; inner- 

 most secondary like the scapulars; rest of secondaries dull, dusky sepia 

 on the inner webs; the outer webs tawny ochraceous-buff crossed by 

 five or more wavy blackish bars, each of which is distally edged with 

 pale ochraceous-buff, the interspaces sparingly stippled with dusky, the 

 outer webs becoming more extensively plain dark sepia on the outer 

 secondaries, primaries dark, dull sepia to clove brown externally blotched 

 with pale cinnamon-huffy; a few of the feathers of the upper back like 

 the interscapulars but subterminally heavily blotched with fuscous-black ; 

 feathers of back ochraceous-buff irregularly barred with dusky; lower 

 back, rump, and upper tail coverts similar but duskier and more oliva- 

 ceous — tawny-olive vermiculated with Saccardo's umber; rectrices dark, 

 dull sepia barred, tipped, and incompletely edged with ochraceous-buff; 

 breast, sides of lower neck, upper abdomen and sides buffy brown, the 

 feathers of the breast washed with drab except marginally; and all the 

 feathers with white shaft stripes, these stripes becoming narrower and 

 fainter on the sides which are also brighter and more rufescent buffy 

 brown; middle of abdomen white, little or not at all tinged with pale 

 buffy; flanks like the sides but crossed by widely spaced fuscous-black 

 wavy bars ; under tail coverts similar but the dark bars turned into longi- 

 tudinal U-shaped marks; thighs pale brownish drab; under wing coverts 

 dark buffy brown. 



Adult female. — ^Upperparts as in the male but the side of forehead, 

 superciliary stripes, cheeks, and throat dark grayish vinaceous; chin and 



