774 
OETYXELOS. — ORYOMA. 
So it ni iiii Stephens, geßer. Zool. XI. 383. [Guiana. Carracas. Mexico. Brasilia. 
Coturnix Somvinii Vieillot, Encycl. méth. 369. 
Perdix Sonninii Temminck, PI. color. 75; Journ. phys. 1772. Tb. 2. 
Eupsychortyx Sonninii Gould, Monogr. Odontoplior. 16. Tb. 11. 
spilogaster Vigors, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1832. II. 4. = Ortyx elegans Less. 
sqaamatus Vigors, Zool. Journ. 1829. V. 275. — Lesson, Illastr. Zool. Tb. 52. 
[Mexico. Texas. 
Ortyx cristatus Llave, Registro trimestro 1832. I. 144. 
Callipepla strenua Wagler, Oken's Isis 1832. 277. 
Callipepla squamata Gray, Genera Birds III. 514. — Gould, Monogr. Odon- 
toplior. 20. Tb. 19. — Baird, Birds N America 646. 
stellata Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1842. X. 183. = Odontophorus stellatus 
Gould. 
strophium Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1843. XI. 134.= Odontophorus strophium 
Gould. 
Temmincki Stephens, gener. Zool. XI. 381. = Ortyx cristatus Gray. 
texanus Lawrence, Ann. Lyc. New York 1853. VI. 1. — Baird, Birds NAmerica 
641. Tb. 42. [Texas. Eiogrande. 
thoracicus Gambel, Proc. acad. Philadelphia 1848. III. 77. = Odontophorus 
Uneolatus Gould. 
Virginia h us Gray, Genera Birds III. 514. — Gould, Monogr. Odontophor. 
Tb. 1. — Baird, Birds NAmerica 640. [America septentr. 
Perdix americana, P. novae Angliae Brisson, Ornith. I. 229. 230. 
Coturnix ludoviciana , C. mexicana Brisson, Ornith. I. 256. 258. Tb. 22. Fig. 2. 
Perdix virginiana, P. mayrlanda, P. mexicana Latham, Ind. Ornith. II. 650 — 653. 
Tetrao mexicana, T. virginiana, T. marylanda Linne, Syst. Nat. I. 277. — 
Wilson, amer. Ornith. 
Attagen americanus Frisch, Vögel Tf. 113. 
Tetrao minor Bartram, Travels 1791. 290. 
Coturnix virginiana, C. marilandica, C. mexicana Bonnaterre, Encycl. méth. 219. 
Ortyx borealis Stephens, gener. Zool. IX. 377. 
Ortygia Virginia Boie, Oken's Isis 1826. 977. 
Ortyx mexicana Lesson, Traité Ornith. 507. 
Colinia virginiana Nuttall, Man. Ornith. I. 646. 
Perdix borealis Temminck, Pi^. Gall. 436. 735. — Vieillot, Galerie Oiseaux 
II. 44. Tb. 214. 
Partridge. — Colenicui. — Quail. 
ORTYXELOS (Tetraonidae. — opxuê coturnix). — Vieillot, Galerie Oiseaux 
1825. Tb. 300. — Gray, Genera Birds 1847. III. 511. 
Synon.-. Ortygis Boie. — Psilocnemis, Torticeila Glog. — Helortyx Agass. — Oxy- 
teles Reichb. 
Bill moderate, straight and very slender with the culmen curved and the sides 
compressed to the tip, which slightly overhangs that of the lower mandible; the 
gonys short ad adscending ; the nostrils lateral and placed in a long nasal groove, 
icith the opening linear and closed by a membrane. Wings moderate, icith the 
third quill the longest and the first and second graduated and pointed at the 
ends. Tail moderate and rounded, icith the ends of the feathers rather acute. 
Tarsi longer than the middle toe, slender and covered in front with transverse 
scales. Toes moderate, with the outer toe longer than the inner, and the hind toe 
wanting; the claws short and curved. — 1 Spec. 
Meyffreni Vieillot, Encycl. méth. Tb. 239. Fig. 1; Galerie Ois. Tb. 300. — 
Temminck, Pl. color. 60. Fig. 1. — Hartlaub, Ornith. WAfr. 205. [Africa. 
Hemipodius nivosus Swainson, Phil. Magaz. IX. 353; Zool. Illustr. 163; Birds 
WAfr. II. 225. 
Turnix Meifreni Vieillot, Diet. hist. nat. XXXIV. 
Ortyxelos isabellinus v. Heuglin, Beitr. Tf. 31. 
0RYGMA Desmurs 1853. = Origma Gould, 
