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KUPSYCHORTYX LEUCOPOGON.

White-faced Partridge.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Eups. facie, strigd superciliart, et gula albis plumis auricularibus fuscts ; pectore sparsum, late-
ribus conspicué, guttis rotundatis albis, notatis, super colorem pallidé castaneum.

Face, stripe over the eye and throat white; crest and ear-coverts brown; back of the
neck rufous brown; sides of the neck spotted with black and white; chest vinaceous 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.

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Total length, 7+ inches; Sell, 1; wing, 4; tail, 21; tarsz, 11; meddle toe and nail, 12.

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Ortyx leucopogon, Less. Rev. de Zool., 1842, p. 175.—Gray and Mitch. Gen. of Birds,

 

vol. ili. p. 514, Ortyx, sp. 12.—O. des Murs, Icon. Orn., pl. 36.

 

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Tus species is distinguished from every other member of the genus Eupsychortya 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 “ Iconographie Ornithologique’

tion of the crest, an omission I cannot account for, as it was very apparent in the specimen above referred

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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.

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