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notes made on a molting specimen collected at Cerro San Felipe, Oaxaca, 

 August 31, 1894, by Nelson and Goldman, U.S.N.M. No. 155551: 

 Similar to adult male above except that the forehead and crown are tawny- 

 buff to buckthorn brown, the feathers tipped with dusky; superciliaries 

 and lores white; no black anywhere on the head; greater and median 

 upper wing coverts pale buckthorn brown with bufFy white shafts and 

 almost without transverse dark markings; lores, malar area, cheeks and 

 auriculars buckthorn brown to sepia except immediately around and be- 

 hind the eye which area is white finely speckled with brownish; chin 

 and throat white, the latter with small dusky brown spots ; the brown 

 of the breast and midventral part of abdomen very much paler-clay color. 



Adult male.— Wing 120-124.5 (122.3); tail 42.5-54 (48.1); culmen 

 from base 15.7-16.4 (16.1); 31-32 (31.3); middle toe without claw 

 22.2-24 (22.8 mm.).^* 



Adult female. — Wing 121.5 ; tail 51 ; culmen from base 15.5 ; tarsus 

 29.4; middle toe without claw 22.3 mm. (1 specimen). 



Range. — Resident in tropical rain forest in the highlands of western 

 Mexico from Guerrero (Amula, Omilteme, and Isguagilite) to east-central 

 Oaxaca (Cerro San Felipe and Ozolotepec). 



Type locality. — Mexico^State of Guerrero. 



Cyrtonyx sallei Verreaux, in Thomson, Arcuna Naturae, 1, 18S9, pi. 4. — Peters, 

 Check-list Birds World, ii, 1934, 57 (distr.).— Griscom, Auk, liv, 1937, 193 

 (Isguagilite, Guerrero, female; plum.; crit.). — Hellmayk and Conover, Cat. 

 Birds Amer., i. No. 1, 1942, 287 part (syn. ; distr.; all except Michoacan). 



Cyrtonyx sallaei Gray, List Birds Brit. Mus., pt 5, Gallinae, 1867, 74. — Salvin and 

 GoDMAN, Ibis, 1889, 242 (Amula, Guerrero; crit.); Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, 

 iii, 1903, 306 part (Amula, Guerrero). — Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 

 xxii, 1893, 427 (Amula, Guerrero) ; Handb. Game Birds, ii, 1897, 148 (monogr.). 

 — Beristain and Laurencio, Mem. y Rev. Soc. Cient. "Antonio Alrate," vii, 

 No. 7-8, 1894, 219 (Mexico) .—Nelson, Auk, xix, 1902, pi. 15, fig. 4. 



Cyrtonyx sallai Griscom, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., Ixxv, 1934, 422 (Guerrero, 

 Mexico) . 



[Cyrtonyx] sallcsi Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 272, No. 9776. — Sclater and Salvin, 

 Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 137.— Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 46. 



C[yrtonyx] salliri Ridgway, Man. North Amer. Birds, 1887, 194. 



CTETONTX OCELLATUS (Gould) 



OCELLATED HARLEQUIN QuAIL 



Adult male. — Lores and middle of forehead and of crown blackish slate, 

 broadly bordered on each side with white; a blackish-slate supraorbital 

 line from the lores to the posterolateral angle of the occiput; this band 

 continuous through the lores with a broader paler one (slate color) ex- 

 tending posteroventrally demarcating the throat from the face and 

 expanding into a triangle over the lower sides of the head; the cheeks 



'Three specimens from Oaxaca and Guerrero. 



