3l6 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. ISO 



collections do not seem to have included others. The only pub- 

 lished record of specimens of the race mariae seems to be that of 

 Hellmayr and Conover (Cat. Birds Amer., pt. 1, no. 1, 1942, p. 252), 

 who in their account of the subspecies panamensis, of Veraguas and 

 Code, listed two of Watson's skins from El Frances. 



My two from near Alanje are definitely blacker than those from 

 the higher elevations. It appears that the maximum depth of pig- 

 mentation in this race is found in the coastal lowlands. 



I have named this subspecies for Mrs. Robert A. Terry who, as 

 Mary E. McLellan Davidson, through her early field work added 

 much to our knowledge of the birds of Chiriqui. 



[COLINUS VIRGINIANUS Linnaeus: Bobwhite; Codomiz Nortena 



Members of the Rio Hato Rod and Gun Qub are reported to 

 have imported a number of bobwhite quail from the United States 

 for release in the savanna country near the Rio Hato military base. 

 At present there is no information as to the success of this experiment. 



This species in general body form is like the native quail but is 

 larger and does not have the prominent crest of the codorniz {Colimis 

 cristatus). The throat in the adult male is white, and in the female 

 plain buffy brown without dark spots or streaks. The wing in males 

 measures from 106 to 119 mm., in females from 103 to 118 mm.] 



ODONTOPHORUS GUJANENSIS (Gmelin): Marbled Wood 0«ail; Gallito del 



Monte Jaspeado 



Figure 54 



Teirao gujanensis Gmelin, Syst. Nat., vol. 1, pt. 2, 1789, p. 767. (Cayenne.) 



A forest quail with undersurface brown, mottled and barred lightly 

 with black, buff, and dull white. 



Description. — Length, 230 to 285 mm. Adult, crown crested, 

 brown ; neck all around and upper back brown or gray, finely barred 

 with black; wings, wing coverts, and scapulars brown, barred with 

 buff, buffy white, and black, with heavy blotches of black, the con- 

 cealed web of the scapulars lined with gray; lower back and rump 

 brown, barred brokenly with brown and buff ; tail similar but darker ; 

 side of head and chin chestnut ; flight feathers fuscous, with broken 

 bars of buffy brown on outer webs; throat gray, barred with dull 

 white; lower surface brown to grayish brown, barred brokenly and 

 spotted with black, buff, and bufify white, more prominently on the 

 under tail coverts; under wing covers gray mottled with white. 



