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gray, lighter than in the latter species and marked with numerous round 

 white spots about half the size of those in that bird. On the posterior 

 portion of the flanks the white spotting is replaced by spots of buffy and 

 chestnut. The rest of the lower parts are black as in mcmtezumae." 



Known only from the type locality, the eastern slopes of Mount Orizaba, 

 and probably (sight records only) from Antigua, nearer the coast, in 

 the State of Veracruz. 



Cyrtonyx merrimni Nelson, Auk, xiv, 1897, 48 (e. slope of Mount Orizaba, Vera- 

 cruz, e. Mexico; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.) ; xix, 1902, 391, pi. 15, fig. 3 (crit.).— 

 Ogilvie-Grant, Ibis, 1903, iii (crit.). 



[Cyrtonyx] merrimni Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 46. 



Clyrtonyx] merriami Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, iii, 1903, 306, 

 in text (crit.). 



Cyrtonyx sallai (not of J. Verreaux) Ogilvie-Grant, Ibis, 1902, 242 (tax.; crit.). — 

 Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, iii, 1903, 306, part (Volcan de 

 Orizaba) . 



Cyrtonyx montezumae (not of Vigors) Heilfurth, Journ. fur Orn., Ixxviii, 1930, 

 40, 44, 45 in text (Antigua, Veracruz; seen). 



Cyrtonyx montezumae merriami Peters, Check-list Birds World, ii, 1934, 57 (e. 

 slopes of Mount Orizaba, Veracruz). — Hellmayr and Conover, Cat. Birds 

 Amer., i, No. 1, 1942, 286 (syn.; distr.). 



CYRTONYX MONTEZUMAE SALLEI Vcrreanx 



Salle's Harlequin Quail 



Adult male. — Similar to that of Cyrtonyx montezumae montezumae 

 above but more brownish, less blackish, upper wing coverts and scapulars 

 clear light grayish olive with heavy but widely spaced transverse black 

 spots; the shaft stripes of the interscapulars and upper back warm buflf, 

 those of the scapulars, upper wing coverts, rump, upper tail coverts, and 

 rectrices ochraceous-orange to ochraceous-tawny ; below differs from the 

 nominate race in having the brown median area of the breast and abdomen 

 paler — ^bright chestnut with a slight orange-tawny tinge; the feathers of 

 the sides of the breast and of the upper abdomen much paler — slate-gray 

 with smaller round white spots, the spots becoming chestnut on the 

 feathers of the sides of the lower abdomen, the most posterior of which 

 have chestnut stripes as well ; the dark area from the lores to the auriculars 

 and sides of throat paler, slate instead of blackish slate. 



Adult female. — Very similar to that of the nominate race but with the 

 upperparts averaging darker, the brown areas of the feathers Saccardo's 

 umber (as compared to tawny-olive in C. m. montezumae) and the black 

 cross marks more densely and abundantly developed, giving a general 

 impression of a blacker dorsum ; the breast and abdomen averaging slightly 

 darker vinaceous-fawn. 



Immature male. — This is not a true plumage, but in a bird of which 

 so little is known it is deemed advisable to include here the following 



