FAMILY PHASIANIDAE 3X9 



ODONTOPHORUS GUJANENSIS MARMORATUS (Gould) 



Ortyx (Odontophorus) viarmoratus Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, pt. 11, 



no. 124, Dec. 1843, p. 107. ("Santa Fe de Bogota," Colombia.) 

 Odontophorus guianensis panamensis Chapman, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 



34, May 27, 1915, p. Z6Z. (Line of Panama Railroad.) 

 Odontophorus guianensis panamensis Chubb, Ibis, ser. 11, vol. 1, no. 1, Jan. 8, 



1919, p. 26. (Lion Hill, Canal Zone.) 

 Odontophorus guianensis chapmani Griscom, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 69, no. 



8, Apr. 1929, p. 153. (Cana, Darien.) 



Characters. — Neck all around and upper back gray (varying from 

 light to dark) ; vi^hite on throat and upper foreneck more extensive. 



A male taken at Mandinga, San Bias, February 12, 1957, had the 

 iris wood brown; bill dusky neutral gray, very slightly paler at the 

 base of the gonys; eyelids, lores, and skin beneath the gape, dull 

 orange ; tarsus and toes neutral gray, with a small area of light neutral 

 gray on the front of the tarsus, below the proximal joint. 



Another male shot at Frijolito, Panama, near the Canal Zone 

 boundary differed slightly in having the iris russet brown; bill dull 

 black ; bare skin around eye and on lores light orange ; tarsus and 

 toes neutral gray ; and claws black. 



Measurements. — Males (17 from Panama), wing 137.0-149.2 

 (143.8), tail 56.8-71.5 (65.0), culmen from cere 17.0-19.8 (18.8), 

 tarsus 41.2-48.1 (45.1) mm. 



Females (4 from Panama), wing 136.7-140.8 (137.3), tail 57.0- 

 63.6 (61.1), culmen from cere 16.1-17.8 (16.9), tarsus 40.8-41.8 

 (41.4) mm. 



Resident. In the Tropical Zone lowlands, from the Caribbean slope 

 of Code (El Uracillo), western Colon (Chilar), and the Canal Zone 

 (Lion Hill, Barro Colorado Island, Juan Mina) east throughout 

 forested areas on both slopes to the Colombian boundary, ranging to 

 500 meters on Cerro Chucanti, and to 1,000 meters on Cerro Pirre; 

 fairly common in areas remote from human settlement. 



One in the British Museum was taken near Lion Hill by Mc- 

 Leannan (date not recorded). In May 1904 W. W. Brown, Jr. shot 

 two near Panama City (Thayer and Bangs, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 

 1906, p. 214) ; on September 3, 1911, and February 22, 1912, Jewel 

 collected males near Gatun (Stone, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadel- 

 phia, 1918, p. 242) ; and in January or February 1921 M. J. Kelly 

 took one near Gamboa that he prepared as a mount for exhibition 

 in the Everhart Museum of Scranton, Pa. Formerly these wood 

 quail were reported regularly on Barro Colorado Island but now are 

 rare, my last record being of one that called at dusk from the 

 forested slope above the laboratory on May 5, 1953. My only other 



