. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. 264 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM Genus CALLIPEPLA Wagler Callipcpla Wagler, Isis, 1832, 277. (Type, by monolypy, C. strenua Wagler =r Or/i).v squainatus Vigors.) Calipcpla (emendation) Hartlaub, Arch, fiir NaUirg., 1853, ii, 40. Medium-sized Odontophorinae (wing about 112-127 mm.) with 14 rectrices, tail more than two-thirds (but less than three-fourths) as long as wing, crest rather short and bushy with its feathers not conduplicate, neck, chest, and breast conspicuously squamated, and sexes alike in colora- tion. Bill relativ
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. 264 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM Genus CALLIPEPLA Wagler Callipcpla Wagler, Isis, 1832, 277. (Type, by monolypy, C. strenua Wagler =r Or/i).v squainatus Vigors.) Calipcpla (emendation) Hartlaub, Arch, fiir NaUirg., 1853, ii, 40. Medium-sized Odontophorinae (wing about 112-127 mm.) with 14 rectrices, tail more than two-thirds (but less than three-fourths) as long as wing, crest rather short and bushy with its feathers not conduplicate, neck, chest, and breast conspicuously squamated, and sexes alike in colora- tion. Bill relatively small, the chord of culmen (from extreme base) much less than half the length of tarsus, its depth at base not greater than dis-. XI Figure 16.—Callipcpla sqiuumita. tance from anterior end of nasal fossa to tip of maxilla and slightly less than its width at rictus; culmen not very strongly convex, broadly rounded. Outermost primary equal to eighth or very slightly shorter, the third, fourth, and fifth longest. Tail a little more than two-thirds (de- cidedly less than three-fourths) as long as wing, graduated (the gradu- ation about equal to length of first two phalanges of middle toe), the rectrices (14) firm, slightly tapering terminally, but with rounded tips. Tarsus much less than one-third as long as wing, slightly shorter than. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original United States National Museum; Smithsonian Institution; United States. Dept. of the Interior. Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc. ]; for sale by the Supt. of Docs. , U. S. Govt Print. Off.
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