l6o LLOYDS NATURAL HISTORY. 



XL THE VERAGUA SPOTTED PARTRIDGE. ODONTOPHORUS 



VERAGUENSIS. 



Odontophortis veraguensis, Gould. P. Z. S. 1856, p. 107; 

 Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 441 (1893). 

 Adult Male. — Distinguished from the 7nak of O. gut tains by 

 having the whole top of the head and crest rust-red, and the 

 under-parts rufous or rufous-brown. Total length, 9-5 inches ; 

 wing, 57 ; tail, 2-5 ; tarsus, 1-65 ; middle toe and claw, 1-75. 



Adult Female. — Differs only in having the top of the head and 

 crest browner ; size slig];itly smaller. 



Eange. — Central America, extending from Panama to Costa 

 Rica. 



XIL BALLIVIAN's SPOTTED PARTRIDGE. ODONTOPHORUS 



BALLIVIANI. 



Odo?itopJiorus l>aUivia7ii^ Gould, P. Z. S. 1846, p. 69; id. 

 Monogr. Odontoph. p. iii. pi. 29 (1850); Ogilvie-Grant, 

 Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 441 (1893). 



Adult. — ]Most like O. veragiccnsis^ but the upper-parts are 

 more rufous and less heavily blotched with black ; crest dark 

 chestnut ; the eyebrow-stripes, chin, and a band on each side 

 of the head below the ear-coverts are buff or ruf< us-buff ; the 

 throat smoky-buff w'lih pale biff shafts ; the general colour of 

 the under-parts deep chestnut^ the diamond-shaped white black- 

 edged spots being hvge and conspicuo7is, especially on the sides. 

 Total length, 10-5 inches; wing, 5*8; tail^ 27; tarsus, i-8; 

 middle toe and claw, 2. 



In the only specimens of this rare Partridge which I have 

 been able to examine, the sex had not been indicated, and 

 it is not known to what extent, if any, the male differs from 

 the female in plumage. 



Eange. — Western South America ; Peru and Bolivia, 



