FAMILY PHASIANIDAE 3II 



KEY TO SPECIES OF THE PHASIANIDAE 



1. Size small, wing less than 105 mm.; luidersurface strongly spotted and 



barred with buff, brown, and black. 



Crested bobwhite, Colimis cristatus, p. 311 



Larger, wing more than 110 mm. ; undersurface plain, or with less conspicuous 



pattern ; if barred, these markings not present on lower f oreneck and upper 



breast 2 



2. Smaller, wing less than 120 mm. ; head without a distinct crest ; 10 rectrices. 



Banded wood quail, Rhynchortyx ductus, p. 330 



Larger, wing more than 120 mm.; head with a distinct bushy crest; 12 



rectrices (Odontophorus) 3 



3. Breast, sides, and crest plain cinnamon-brown. 



Rufous-breasted wood quail, Odontophorus erythrops melanotis, p. 325 

 Breast and crest more or less variegated 4 



4. Throat black, streaked with white; rest of lower surface distinctly spotted 



with white or buff Spotted wood quail, Odontophorus guttatus, p. 322 



Not as in 4. 5 



5. Breast black, in some mixed with brown barred with white; throat white, 



or white mixed with black. 



Black-breasted wood quail, Odontophorus leucolaemus, p. 328 



Breast grayish brown, finely barred, spotted, or marbled with dull black, 



buff, or grayish white 6 



6. Foreneck and throat gray to grayish brown, with many fine cross bars of 



white to grayish white. 



Marbled wood quail, Odontophorus gujanensis, p. 316 



Foreneck white with a broad central band of black mixed with rufous brown. 



Tacarcuna wood quail, Odontophorus dialeucos, p. 327 



COLINUS CRISTATUS (Linnaeus): Crested Bobwhite; Codomiz 



Figure 53 

 Tetrao cristatus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, vol. 1, 1766, p. 277. (Curasao.) 



A small quail, with form rounded and compact, short tail, and 

 head with pointed crest. 



Description. — Length 190 to 200 mm. Male, crown white or buff 

 shading to gray on the crest and back, bordered posteriorly by brown 

 more or less lined with black; sides and back of neck black, spotted 

 with white; rest of upper surface finely mottled with gray, brown, 

 and black; tertials spotted with black, with the inner borders black; 

 foreneck in some white, in others chestnut; under surface buff to 

 chestnut, spotted with white and barred with black ; ear coverts white 

 or buffy white. 



Female, similar, but crown black in front, brown behind, including 

 the crest, with sides buff lined narrowly with black; throat buff to 

 white with the feathers bordered and tipped narrowly with black. 



