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The black-breasted wood quail ranges in the highlands to eastern 

 and northern Costa Rica, but other than specimens that have been 

 taken little is known of it. Carriker (Birds of Costa Rica, 1910, pp. 

 388-389) wrote of it in Costa Rica that like "all other species of the 

 genus it is an inhabitant of the forest, congregates in small coveys, 

 and keeps to the thickest parts of the jungle." Oberholser (Proc. 

 Biol. Soc. Washington, 1932, p. 41) cited observations by Austin 

 Paul Smith, who found it an elusive inhabitant of steep, heavily 

 wooded slopes in Costa Rica where the "birds were noisy early in the 

 morning during March and April." 



RHYNCHORTYX CINCTUS CINCTUS (Salvin): Banded Wood Quail; 

 Gallito del Monte Menor 



Odontophorus cinctus Salvin, Ibis, ser. 3, vol. 6, no. 23, July 1876, p. 379. 



(Veraguas, Panama.) 

 Odontophorus spodiostethus Salvin, Ibis, ser. 4, vol. 2, no. 8, Oct. 1878, p. 447. 



(Veraguas.) 

 Odontophorus rubigenis Lawrence Mss., Richmond, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 



16, Oct. 4, 1893, p. 525. (Panama.) 

 Rhynchortyx cinctus hypopius Griscom, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 72, no. 9, 



Jan. 1932, p. 320. (Puerto Obaldia, San Bias.) 



A small forest-quail, with upper breast plain gray (male) or plain 

 brown (female) ; head not prominently crested ; bill heavy. 



Description. — Length 170 to 200 mm. Male, crown and hindneck 

 dark brown, very faintly spotted with buff and black ; upper back dark 

 gray, slightly mottled with buff, the feathers tipped more or less with 

 brown; lower back paler gray, washed with buff, barred lightly and 

 indistinctly with darker gray, and spotted with cinnamon-buff and 

 black; uppermost lesser wing coverts black, barred narrowly with 

 cinnamon ; rest of wing coverts brownish gray, with irregular bars 

 and spots of buff and black ; tertials and innermost secondaries spotted 

 boldly with black and barred with cinnamon ; flight feathers fuscous ; 

 outer webs of primaries spotted faintly with buff; outer webs of 

 secondaries with irregular spots and broken bars of cinnamon-buff ; 

 rump, upper tail coverts, and tail dull cinnamon, with shaft lines of 

 black and mottling of fuscous ; band from eye back over ear coverts 

 dark grayish brown ; side of head, including a broad superciliary line 

 and the malar area, cinnamon; throat mixed white and light gray 

 f oreneck and upper breast dark gray ; lower breast cinnamon-buff 

 sides dull gray, mottled and washed with buff and cinnamon-buff 

 abdomen and tibia white ; flanks and under tail coverts cinnamon- 

 buff, barred with black ; shorter under wing coverts brownish black, 

 spotted faintly with white. 



