( 505 ) 

 2S0. Ortalis erythroptera (Scl. & Salv.). 



Oue female, Chimbo, liMHi feet. "Iris brown; bare skin on sides of liead 

 (lark blnisli grey; feet i)alc bine, elaws lirown, soles yellow; bill [lale blnisli, 

 base almost black." 



231. Odontophorus parambae Kothsch. 

 (Plate 111. tig. I.) 



Two J'emaUs were shot at Paramba, 3500 feet, on April 17tb, 1897, and 

 described as above in Bull. B. 0. C. VII. p. 6. Three more specimens were 

 procured in the same place by one of Mr. Rosenberg's correspondents. They are 

 larger, and two are marked " i," one " ? .'" The latter the collector reports was 

 killed on the nest, which contained two eggs. This was on May 16th, 189.^. If 

 the specimens are correctly sexed, the sexes do not differ in coloration at all; but 

 the three recently sent specimens have the wings 152 to 155 mm. long, while the 

 type had it only 145 mm. long. " Iris brown, skin round eye greenish grey; feet 

 dark greenish or bluish grey; bill black." The British Museum has recently 

 received a skin from Northern (Jolombia. 



The eggs are of the form of Partridge-eggs, have a somewhat rough shell, and 

 are white of colour; they measure 35"8 : 28'5 and 3(r7 : 28'5 mm. 



232. Crypturus berlepschi Hothsch. 

 (Plate 111. hg. 2.) 



This sombre-looking dark ( 'rypturns has been described by Mr. Rothschild in 

 /lull. IS. 0. C. VII. p. 5. The colour is shown on our plate. The total length is 

 about 3110 ram., wing IsO, tarsus 60, culmen 33. " Iris dark orange; feet yellowish 

 brown; liill black, with the tip whitish and some red on the base." 



Only a single/emale was shot at I'achavi, 500 feet high. 



