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Sapo and Jesusito, Darien). — Sturgis, Field Book Birds Panama Canal Zone, 



1928, 29 (descr.; habits; Panama) .—Heath, Ibis, 1932, 482 (Barro Colorado 



Island, Panama). 

 Odontopliorus guianensis chapmani Griscom, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., Ixix, 1929, 



153 (Cana, e. Panama; descr.; crit.). — Bangs, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., Ixx, 



1930, 160 (type spec, in Mus. Comp. Zool. <= 0. g. marmoratus) . 

 Odontophoriis guianensis canescens (not O. parambae can^scens Chapman, 1921) 



Osgood and Conover, Publ. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., zool. ser., xii, 1922, 27, 



pi. 1, lower fig. (Rio Cogollo, Perija, Zulia, Venezuela; type in Conover 



coll.; fig.). 

 Odontophoriis guianensis polionotus Osgood and Conover, Auk, xliv, 1927, 561 (new 



name for O. guianensis canescens Osgood and Conover, preoccupied). 

 Odontophorus gujanensis polionoUu; Peters, Check-list Birds of World, ii, 1934, 52 



(Venezuela). 

 Odontophorus guianensis (not Tetrao guianensis Gmelin) Lawrence, Ann. Lye. 



Nat. Hist. New York, vii, 1862, 301 (Lion Hill, Panama). — Seth-Smith, 



L'Oiseau, x, 1929, 763 (care in captivity). 



ODONTOPHORUS ERYTHROPS MELANOTIS Salvin 



Black -EARED Wood Quail 



Adult male. — Forehead, crown, occiput, and dorsal part of auriculars 

 dark chestnut; nape and interscapulars mummy brown heavily flecked 

 and vermiculated with fuscous, the interscapulars with pale smoke-gray 

 longitudinal flecks along the shaft except terminally ; upper wing coverts 

 and scapulars dark sepia transversely broadly blotched with dark clove 

 brown to dark fuscous and vermiculated with fuscous to blackish ; the 

 large blackish blotches edged with pale cinnamon-brown, this pale color 

 most extensive and prominent, the black most restricted, on the outer 

 lesser and median coverts ; the scapulars with incomplete whitish bars 

 on the inner part of their outer webs ; the greater and median coverts 

 more regularly banded with blackish and with pale cinnamon-brown than 

 the others; secondaries dark clove brown, the outer webs abundantly 

 flecked and mottled with cinnamon-brown to pale cinnamon-brown and 

 blackish ; primaries dark clove brown, fairly uniform on their inner webs ; 

 heavily banded on the outer ones, these short bars almost coalescing on 

 some of the remiges to form solid outer webs of this color; upper back 

 dull sepia, subterminally broadly banded with black, this band narrowly 

 edged proximally with cinnamon-brown proximal to which is a very 

 narrow black band, the sepia basal portion of the feathers speckled finely 

 with dusky; lower back and rump sepia to bister, faintly flecked with 

 dusky; upper tail coverts similar but with large blackish stippling and 

 the feathers subterminally blotched transversely with blackish ; rectrices 

 mummy brown faintly and incompletely banded with dark sepia and 

 abundantly flecked and vermiculated terminally and marginally with sepia 

 to cinnamon-brown ; lores and circumocular area bare, dark plumbeous to 

 blackish ; cheeks, auriculars, chin, and throat black ; breast and sides dark, 



