EUPSYCHORTYX LEUCOPOGON. 
White-faced Partridg*e. 
Specific Character. 
Eups. facie, striga superciliari, et gala albis plumis auricularibus fuscis; pectore sparsim, late- 
ribus conspicue, guttis rotundatis albis, notatis, super colorem pallicle castaneum. 
Face, stripe over the eye and throat white; crest and ear-coverts brown ; back of the 
neck rufons brown ; sides of the neck spotted with black and white; chest vinaceons or 
reddish brown, minutely freckled with black and irregularly spotted with white encircled 
with black; abdomen and flanks chestnut, ornamented with large spots of buffy white 
separated by black; mantle and all the upper surface vinous chestnut-red, freckled and 
crossed with zigzag lines of black and buff; tertiaries broadly margined interiorly with 
buff; tail grey, crossed with zigzag markings of buff and freckled with the same colour; 
bill black ; feet fleshy brown. 
Total length, 7 k inches; bill, a; wing, 4; tail, 2a ; tarsi, 1a ; middle toe and nail, 1a. 
Ortyx leucopogon, Less. Rev. de Zool., 1842, p. 175.—Gray and Mitch. Gen. of Birds, 
vol. iii. p. 514, Ortyx, sp. 12.—O. des Murs, Icon. Orn., pi. 36. 
This species is distinguished from every other member of the genus Eupsychortyx by its white face and 
throat, and the peculiar spotted markings of the chest. 
I am indebted to the Baron de la Fresnaye for the use of the specimen from which the above characters 
are taken ; it is the only one that has come under my notice. 
The bird has been figured by M. O. des Murs in his 45 Iconographie Ornithologique” without any indica¬ 
tion of the crest, an omission I cannot account for, as it was very apparent in the specimen above referred 
to, and is moreover a character common to all the species of the genus. 
Habitat. San Carlos in Central America. 
The figures represent males of the natural size; the female I have never seen. 
