328 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. I50 



The three specimens from which this interesting wood quail was 

 described were collected by Dr. Pedro Galindo of the Gorgas 

 Memorial Laboratory near a camp at 1,450 meters elevation located 

 6^ kilometers west of the summit of Cerro Mali. A young female 

 came first to hand on June 5, 1963, followed by an adult pair two 

 days later. 



Among its relatives Odontophorus dialeucos resembles most O. 

 strophium of the subtropical zone of the mountains of central Colom- 

 bia. This also has a white upper foreneck banded broadly with black 

 across the center but differs in the presence of a narrow black collar 

 below the lower white neck band and in being rufous and cinnamon 

 on the breast and sides, with prominent white spots and shaft lines. 

 Its crown is fuscous-brown and its whole upper surface is rufescent 

 with prominent black markings. The darker bird of Darien is an 

 interesting contrast in its plainer pattern. 



In February and March of the following year we found these 

 birds fairly common on the slopes of Cerro Mali and Cerro 

 Tacarcuna from 1,200 to 1,450 meters. They ranged in pairs and 

 little flocks of six or eight in undergrowth, and were not wild since 

 they had had no hunter contact. While they were birds of the forest 

 floor, once one flew to a perch in a small tree 5 meters above the 

 ground. When disturbed they gave the low, rapid calls common to 

 other wood quail when approached. 



ODONTOPHORUS LEUCOLAEMUS Salvin: Black-breasted Wood QuaU; 

 Gallito del Monte Pechinegro 



Odontophorus leucolaemus Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, June 1867, p. 161. 



(Cordillera de Tole, eastern Chiriqui, Panama.) 

 Odontophorus smithianus Oberholser, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 45, Apr. 



2, 1932, p. 39. (San Joaquin de Dota, Costa Rica.) 

 Odontophorus smithians "Oberholser" Griscom, Auk, vol. SO, July 6, 1933, p. 298. 



(Lapsus for smithianus.) 



A forest quail with black breast and white throat (white sometimes 

 much reduced). 



Description. — Length, 220 to 240 mm. Adult (sexes alike), above, 

 including the crest, dark cinnamon-brown, very finely barred with 

 black to produce a mottled appearance; scapulars and inner sec- 

 ondaries spotted and barred boldly with black; flight feathers 

 fuscous; outer web of primaries faintly spotted with cinnamon; 

 outer webs of secondaries heavily mottled with dark cinnamon and 

 dull black ; tail dull black, with numerous narrow indefinite bars of 

 cinnamon and cinnamon-buff; sides of head, malar region, lower 



