BIRDS OP NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA 409 



Rhynchortyx cinctus cinctus Bangs and Barbour, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., Ixv, 1922, 

 196 Mount Sapo, Darien). — Peters, Check-list Birds World, ii, 1934, 58, part 

 (distr.).— Griscom, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool, Ixxviii, 1935, 304 (Panama; Pacific 

 slope; Veraguas — very rare; Darien^common). — Hellmayr and Conover, Cat. 

 Birds Amer., i. No. 1, 1942, 288 part (syn. ; distr.). 



Odontophorus spodiostethus Salvin, Ibis, 1878, 447 (Veraguas, w. Panama; coll. 

 Salvin and Godman, now in coll. Brit. Mus.). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.- 

 Amer., Aves, iii, 1903, pi. 76 (= male). 



Rhynchortyx spodiostethus Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxii, 1893, 443 

 (Veraguas and Agua Dulce, Panama) ; Handb. Game Birds, ii, 1897, 162, pi. 34 

 (male). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, iii, 1903, 313, part 

 (Veraguas and Agua Dulce, Panama). 



[Rhynchortyx] spodiostethus Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 47, part (Panama). 



Odontophorus rubigcnis (Lawrence MS.), Richmond, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xvi, 

 1893, 525, in text (Panama ; type in Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. ; manuscript name 

 for O. spodiostethus). 



RHYNCHORTYX CINCTUS HYPOPIUS Griscom 



Caribbean Long-legged Colin 



Adult male. — Similar to that of Rhynchortyx cinctus piidihundus but 

 with more white in the center of the abdomen, the ochraceous tones paler — 

 between light ochraceous-buff and warm buff, the thighs whiter. 



Adult female. — Very similar to that of Rhynchortyx cinctus pudibundus 

 but cheeks slightly more rufescent, the auriculars rusty instead of sooty, 

 top of head more rufescent, imder tail coverts averaging more whitish. 



Other plumages apparently unknown. 



Adult male.— Wing 111-117.5 (113.4) ; tail 43.1-48.1 (45.8) ; culmen 

 from base 16.0-17.0 (16.6) ; tarsus 34.1-35.5 (34.8) ; middle toe with- 

 out claw 23.3-25.1 (24.4 mm.).^ 



Adidt female. — Wing 105.5; tail ; culmen from base 15.4; tarsus 



32.7; middle toe without claw 22.8 inm. (1 specimen). 



Range. — Resident in tropical forests of the Caribbean slope of eastern 

 Panama from Rio Pequeni, Canal Zone (not wholly typical), east to 

 Perme and Obaldia, eastern Darien. 



Type locality. — Obaldia, Caribbean slope of eastern Panama, 



Rhynchortyx cinctus hypopius Griscom, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., Ixxii, 1932, 320 

 (Obaldia, Caribbean slope, Darien, eastern Panama; type in Mus. Comp. Zool.; 

 descr. ; crit.) ; Ixxviii, 1935, 304 (Panama; Caribbean slope of eastern Darien). 

 — Peters, Check-list Birds World, ii, 1934, 58 (distr.). — Hellmayr and CoN- 

 ovER, Cat. Birds Amer., i. No. 1, 1942, 289 (syn.; distr.). 



Genus PERDIX Brisson 



Perdix Brisson, Orn., i, 1760, 219. (Type, by tautonymy, Perdix Brisson ^ Tetrao 



perdix Linnaeus.) 

 Perdrix (emendation) Brunnich, Zool. Fundam., 1771, 86. 



' Six specimens. 



