158 LLOYD’S NATURAL HISTORY. 
in the only examples I have examined, the sex had not been 
ascertained, so it is uncertain if the male and female differ in 
plumage. 
Range.—Western South America; Ecuador. 
VIII. THE BLACK-BREASTED PARTRIDGE. ODONTOPHORUS 
LEUCOLEMUS. 
Odontophorus leucolemus, Salvin, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 161; 
Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 438 (1893). 
(Flate XX X/I/a.) 
Adult Male and Female.—Easily distinguished from the last 
species and those previously described by having the forehead, 
sides of the head and throat, as well as the chest and breast 
black ; the middle of the throat zwz¢e ; the rest of the under 
parts vich rufous-brown mixed with black on the belly. In 
male: Total length, 9 inches; wing, 5°3; tail, 2°2; tarsus, 
1°8 ; middle toe and claw, 1°95. ema/e, rather smaller. 
Range.—Central America ; Costa Rica and Veragua. 
B. Chest and breast spotted with white. 
IX. THE STARRED PARTRIDGE. ODONTOPHORUS STELLATUS. 
Ortyx (Odontophorus) stellata, Gould, P. Z. S. 1842, p. 183. 
Odontophorus stellatus, Gould, Monogr. Odontoph. pt. ii. pl. 
27 (1846); Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 439 
(1893). 
Adult Male—Above very similar to O. guianensis, but the 
crest is longer and the hinder part bright rufous-chestnut,; chin 
and throat gvey, under-parts deep dbrick-red, the sides of the 
chest and breast with diamond-shaped white spots sometimes 
edged with black. Total length, 10°5 inches ; wing, 5°5 ; tail, 
2°73; tarsus, 1°5; middle toe and claw, 1°6. 
Adult Female.—Differs from the ma/e in having the hinder 
part of the crest deep 4rownish-black. Rather smaller. 
