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Tropical Zone on Mount Cacaguatique, and probably of other interior 

 areas of EI Salvador. 



Type locality. — Mount Cacaguatique, Dept. San Miguel, El Salvador. 



Dactylortyx thoracicus salvadoranus Dickey and van Rossem, Proc. Biol. Soc. 

 Washington, xli, 1928, 129, part (Mount Cacaguatique, El Salvador). 



Dactylortyx thoracicus taylori van Rossem, Trans. San Diego Soc. Nat. Hist., 

 vii, 1932, 151 (Mount Cacaguatique, 3,S0O feet, Dept. San Miguel, El Salvador; 

 type in coll. D. R. Dickey, Univ. California at Los Angeles; descr. ; crit.). — 

 Peters, Check-list Birds World, ii, 1934, 56, part (Mount Cacaguatique, El 

 Salvador). — Conover, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 1, 1937, 74 (spec; Mount 

 Cacaguatique, El Salvador). — Dickey and van Rossem, Birds El Salvador, 

 1938, 154 (El Salvador, Mount Cacaguatique; spec; distr. ; colors of soft 

 parts; habits; crit.). — Hellmayr and Conover, Cat. Birds Amer., i. No. 1, 

 1942, 283 (syn.; distr.).— Marshall, Condor, xlv, 1943, 23 (El Salvador; Mount 

 Cacaguatique). 



DACTYLORTYX THORACICUS FUSCUS Conover 



Honduranian Long-toed Quail 



Adult male. — Similar to that of the nominate race but without the 

 Wfhitish marks on the sides of the occiput; the breast and sides slightly 

 less brownish, with no cinnamon-buffy wash, more dusky grayish earth 

 brown (in some specimens these parts are considerably paler as well). 



Adult female. — The darkest of all the races of the species; similar to 

 that of the nominate form but with the top of the head fuscous-black; 

 the breast, upper abdomen, and sides cinnamon-brown; the white on the 

 middle abdomen more restricted than in the typical race ; and the lateral 

 portions of the interscapular feathers darker — dusky auburn. 



Adult male.— Wing 121.5-130.0 (126.9) ; tail 48.0-52.5 (50.1) ; culmen 

 from base 17.4-18.3 (17.9); tarsus 31.6-36.2 (33.6); middle toe with- 

 out claw 28.6-30.6 (29.4 mm.).8i 



Adult female. — Wing 123.0-130.0 (126.2); tail 52; culmen from base 

 16.1-17.2 (16.8) ; tarsus 34.1-35.2 (34.6) ; middle toe without claw 29.0- 

 29.4 (29.2 mm.). 82 



Range. — Resident in tropical forests of southern Honduras, Dept. 

 Tegucigalpa (Alto Cantoral, Cantoral, Rancho Quemado, San Juancito, 

 and Olancho, Catacamas). 



Type locality. — Alto Cantoral, Dept. Tegucigalpa, Honduras. 



Dactylortyx thoracicus taylori van Rossem, Trans. San Diego Soc. Nat. Hist., 



vii. No. 13, 1932, 152, part (s. Honduras; range only).— Peters, Check-list Birds 



World, ii, 1934, 56, part (Honduras). 

 Dactylortyx thoracicus salvadoranus (not of Dickey and van Rossem) Stone, Proc. 



Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Ixxxiv, 1932, 302 (Honduras; San Juancito, 



6,300-6,800 feet, in cloud forest). 



" Four specimens including the type. 

 " Three specimens. 



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