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The two lowland areas from which it has been recorded, both in or 

 near the drainage of the Chiriqui Viejo river system, formerly 

 heavily forested, have been cut over until little of the original cover 

 remains. It seeems doubtful that any are still to be found in the 

 Republic. 



Two specimens in the American Museum of Natural History, 

 sent originally by J. H. Batty to the Rothschild collection, have data 

 that are not to be trusted, as they are labeled "Isla Cebaco" with 

 the dates February 4 and 5, 1902. Probably they are Arce skins from 

 somewhere on the mainland. 



ODONTOPHORUS GUTTATUS (Gould): Spotted Wood Quail; Gallito del 



Monte Pintado 



Ortyx guttata Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, pt. 5, no. 56, 1837 (Feb. 13, 



1838), p. 79. (Bay of Honduras.) 

 Odontophorus V eragnanensis Gould, Athenaeum, no. 1490, May 17, 1856, p. 



620. ("Near David, in Veragua," Panama.) 

 Odontophorus veraguensis Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, pt. 24, no. 307, 



Aug. 13, 1856, p. 107. (Boquete, Chiriqui.) 



A forest quail with under surface grayish brown or dull cinnamon 

 spotted with white ; throat black, streaked with white. 



Description. — Length, 230-275 mm. Adult male, (in gray-brown 

 phase) crown brownish black, with the elongated crest feathers 

 bright cinnamon-buff, except for the darker tips ; side of head gray- 

 ish brown, with a streak of chestnut, mixed slightly with black from 

 beneath the eye back over the ear coverts to the side of the neck ; 

 hindneck and upper back mottled olive-brown and gray, with shaft 

 lines of white ; a few black feathers mixed with chestnut forming a 

 narrow indefinite collar across hindneck; lower back, rump, and 

 upper tail coverts finely mottled with grayish brown and olive ; wing 

 coverts similar, but with small spots of mixed black and buffy white; 

 tertials and inner secondaries with bold, irregular black spots, barred 

 narrowly with chestnut-brown, and lined with buffy white; flight 

 feathers fuscous, the outer webs of the secondaries with narrow, 

 irregular bars and spots of buff to cinnamon ; tail dull black, with 

 faintly indicated bars and spots of cinnamon; throat and foreneck 

 black, streaked narrowly with white; lower surface grayish brown 

 with small elongated spots of white bordered narrowly with black; 

 upper breast, sides and flanks washed with warm brown ; under tail 

 coverts dull chestnut-brown, banded indistinctly with black; under 

 wing coverts dark grayish brown. 



