ETOPSTCMOTRTYX lEBCOPO'SGIi',
EUPSYCHORTYX LEUCOPOGON.
White-faced Partridge.
S p e c if ic C h aractek.
Eups. fa c ie , striga superciliari, et g u la albis plumis auricularibus fu s c is ; pectore spar dim, late-
ribus conspicue, g u ttis rotundatis albis, notatis, super colorem pallide castaneum.
Face, stripe over the eye and throat w h ite ; crest and ear-coverts brown ; back o f the
neck rufous brown; sides o f 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 o f bufiy white
separated by black; mantle and all the upper surface vinous chestnut-red, freckled and
crossed with zigzag lines o f black and buff; tertiaries broadly margined interiorly with
buff; tail grey, crossed with zigzag markings o f buff and freckled with the same colour;
bill black ; feet fleshy brown.
Total length, 7 t inches; bill, wing, 4 ; tail, tarsi, I * ; middle toe and nail, 1| .
O rty x leucopogon, Less. Rev. de Zool., 1842, p. 175.— Gray and Mitch. Gen. o f Birds,
vol. iii. p. 514, Ortyx, sp. 12.—O. des Murs, Icon. Orn., pi. 36.
Th is species is distinguished from every other member o f 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 “ Iconographie Ornithologique” without any indication
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.