MASSENA QUAIL — CYETONYX MASSENA. 447 



color I legs, pale dull bluish. Length, 9^ inches; extent, 18; wing, 5; tail, 2; bill, 

 0.70; tarsus, IJ. 



Adult female: Like the male ou the upper parts, but wanting the distinct markings 

 on the head ; colors of the under parts entirely difi'ereut ; the crest less de\eloped ; 

 the size of the whole bird less; no black about the head; chin yellowish or tarruy 

 white; whole under parts plain, pale brownish-white, inconspicuously marked with a 

 few little black, spots. BiU, liglit horn-color ; upper mandible with a tinge of reddish, 

 lower nearly white; iris, brownish-olive; legs and feet, livid bluish-white, with a 

 yellowish tinge behind. Length, 9 inches ; fextent, 17 ; wing, 4J ; tail, 2 ; tarsus, 1.20. 



Young, scarcely fledged: Bill, reddish-brown above, whitish below; feet, dull brown- 

 ish. General plumage of the upper parts light, warm brown, variegated with black, 

 and very boldly striped with white — each feather having a broad, sharp, white shaft- 

 line, hammer- headed or transversely enlarged at apex, bordered ou either side by the 

 areas that cause the variegation. A few of the inner wing-quills like the back ; the 

 rest dusky, with whitish shafts, and interruptedly barred, chiefly on the outer webs, 

 with light, dull bnfty-brown, or whitish. Feathers of under parts white, with a slight 

 huffy suffusion, boldly marked with innumerable spots of brownish-black, paired on 

 each feather, quite circular and sharp ou the breast, further back widening into trans- 

 verse bars. The head of the specimen is still in the down, except a feather or two just 

 sprouted ou the vertex ; these feathers are like the back ; there is a triangular chest- 

 nut-brown area on the crown ; the head is otherwise light grayish-brown, fading into 

 white on the chin and throat, and with a dusky auricular mark. Length of the speci- 

 men about 3,^ inches. 



For opportunity of describing this early stage, hitherto unpublished, so far as I know, 

 and quite new to me, I am indebted to Lieutenant 6. M. Wheeler, Corps of Engineers, the 

 accomplished officer in charge of the Explorations and Surveys west of the 100th 

 meridian, which are doing so much to develop the resources of the AVest. I was 

 kindly shown, by Dr. H. C. Yarrow, the well-known naturalist in charge of the 

 Natural History Department, several specimeus of the species from Arizona, forming 

 part of the collection made during the season of 1873 by H. W. Henshaw — one of the 

 largest, best prepared, and most valuable suites of bird-skins ever brought from our 

 Western Territories. 



Note. — The foregoing account of Gallince includes all the species known to inhabit 

 North America, north of Mexico. 



