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PHASIANID^. 



and sides of the throat bright nist-red ; middle of chin and throat 

 white ; front and sides of neck, chest, and sides of breast dark 

 grey, shading intobuif on the middle of the breast and belly ; flanks 

 indistinctly clouded with dusky and barred with black ; under tail- 

 coverts buff, barred with black ; tail finely mottled with rufous 

 and black. Total length 7-5 inches, wing 4-9, tail 1-8, tarsus 1-4, 

 middle toe and claw 1"15. 



In the type specimen the rump and upper tail-coverts are washed 

 with vinaceous grey, and in both this and a second specimen the rufous 

 and buff markings on the wing-coverts and scapulars are more 

 strongly marked than in the bird described above, while a few of the 

 feathers of the nape have white shaft-stripes or spots. These 

 characters probably indicate that the birds are not yet in the most 

 adult plumage. 



Hah. Veragua and Panama. 



a, h.\^S ? ] Ad. sk. Veragua. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(Types of the species.) 

 c. c? ad. sk. Agua Dulce, Panama, Gould Coll, 



Dec. 



2. Rhynchortyx cinctus. 



Odontophorus cinctus, Salvin, Ibis, 1876, p. 379 [Veragua] ; Mmvley, 

 Orn. Misc. iii. p. 39, pi. Ixxxvi. (1878). 



Adult. Top of the head, mantle, chest, and sides of breast deep 

 rufous ; a white band from the lores to the eye, and continued 

 behind the eye above the ear-coverts and along the sides of the 

 neck ; wings very similar to those of li. sjjodiostethus ; in the type 

 the lower back and rump are dark grey, finely mottled with whitish ; 

 but in a second example these parts are dull vinaceous, very slightly 

 freckled with black, while a line of feathers down the centre have 

 deep black shaft-stripes (these difiFerences are due probably to either 

 age or sex, but it is impossible to say which); upper tail-coverts 

 reddish brown, vermiculated with black ; superciliary stripe and 

 sides of head dull olive-brown ; ear-coverts blackish chestnut, chin 

 and throat white ; breast, belly, and flanks white, rather widely 

 barred with black, except down the middle of the body ; under tail- 

 coverts buff, barred with black ; tail-feathers reddish brown, 

 vermiculated with black. Total length 7'5 inches, wing 4-6, 

 tail 1"7, tarsus 1*3, middle toe and claw 1"15. 



Hab. Veragua. 



a, b. Ad. sk. Veragua {Arce). Salvin-Godmau Coll. 



(Types of the species.) 



