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middle of upper throat whitish ; breast and sides of lower neck between 

 tawny and cinnamon-rufous with faintly paler shafts; upper abdomen, 

 sides similar but less rufescent, more ochraceous-tawny, the flanks and 

 under tair coverts as in the male; middle of abdomen whitish as in the 

 male^ 



Natd down. — "Dark chestnut above, with a bufly line along either 

 side of the rump, bright buffy superciliary area, dark line through the 

 eye, red-brown bill, and somewhat clouded or mottled underparts" {ex 

 Sutton and Pettingill, Auk, lix, 1942, 13). 



Other plumages apparently unknown. 



Adult wjo/e.— Wing 129.5; tail 51.5; culmen from base 16.2; middle 

 toe without claw 29.4 mm. (1 specimen from Puebla; tarsi damaged). 



Adult female. — ^Wing 123.5-125.0; tail 47.2; culmen from base 16.7- 

 17.1; tarsus 32:4-32.6; middle toe without claw 26.7-27.7 mm. (2 speci- 

 mens from Mexico and Veracruz). 



Range. — Resident in the forests of the mountain slopes of eastern 

 Mexico, from southern Tamaulipas (Gomez Farias) south to Veracruz 

 (Rio Seco, Jalapa, Atoyac, Cordoba, Hacienda de Los Atlixcos) and to 

 Puebla (Metlaetoyuca). 



Type locality. — Jalapa, Veracruz, Mexico. 



Ortyx thoracicus Gambel, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, iv, 1848, 77 (Jalapa, 

 Veracruz, e. Mexico ; coll. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia) ; Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 

 ser. 2, iii, 1849, 317, 318. 



Odontophorus thoracicus Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1856, 310 (Cordoba, 

 Veracruz).— Beristain and Laurencio, Mem. y Rev. Soc. Cient. "Antonio 

 Alzate," vii, No. 7-8, 1894, 218 (Veracruz). 



O [dontophorus] thoraticus Reichenow, Die Vogel, i, 1913, 316, part. 



[Odontophortis] thoraciois Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 138, part. 



Dactylortyx thoracicus Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxii, 1893, 429, part 

 (Cordoba, Hacienda de Los Atlixcos and Atoyac, Veracruz) ; Handb. Game 

 Birds, ii, 1897, 150.— Nelson, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, xii, 1898, 65 (descr. 

 of type, from Jalapa) . — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, iii, 1903, 

 308, part (Hacienda de Los Atlixcos, Cordoba, Jalapa, and Atoyac, Veracruz). — 

 Sutton and Burleigh, Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. Louisiana State Univ., No. 3, 

 1939, 28 (Gomez Farias, Tamaulipas). 



[Dactylortyx] thoracicus Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 46, part. 



Dactylortyx thoracicus thoracicus Peters, Check-list Birds World, ii, 1934, 56 

 (distr.). — Hellmayr and Conover, Cat. Birds Amer., i, No. 1, 1942, 281 (syn. ; 

 distr.). — Sutton and Pettingill, Auk, lix, 1942, 12 (G6mez Farias region, 

 southwestern Tamaulipas; habits; descr. of downy young; spec). 



DACTYLORTYX THORACICUS DEVIUS Nelson 



Jaliscan Long-toed Quail 



Adult male. — Similar to that of the nominate race but with many black- 

 ish or fuscous-blackish transverse markings on the interscapulars and 

 with the middle of the abdomen buffy instead of whitish; the tawny- 



