160 LLOYDS NATURAL HISTORY. 
XI. THE VERAGUA SPOTTED PARTRIDGE. ODONTOPHORUS 
VERAGUENSIS. 
Odontophorus veraguensis, Gould. P. Z. S. 1856, p. 1073 
Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit..Mus. xxii. p. 441 (1893). 
Adult Male.— Distinguished from the male of O. gutlatus 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, 5°7; tail, 2°5; tarsus, 1°65 ; middie foeand claw, 145. 
Adult Female.— Differs only in having the top of the head and 
crest browner ; size slightly smaller. 
Range.—Central America, extending from Panama to Costa 
Rica. 
XII. BALLIVIAN’S SPUO''TED PARTRIDGE. ODONTOPHORUS 
BALLIVIANI. 
Odontophorus balliviani, Gould, P. Z. S. 1846, p. 69; id. 
Monogr. Odontoph. p. iii. pl. 29 (1850) ; Ogilvie-Grant, 
Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 441 (1893). 
Adult—Most like O. veraguensis, 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 rufius-buff ; the 
throat smoky-buff with pale buff shafts ; the general colour of 
the under-parts deep chestnut, the diamond-shaped white black- 
edged spots being /age and conspicuous, especially on the sides, 
Total length, 10°5 inches; wing, 5°85 tail, 2°75: tarsus, roy 
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. 
Range.—Western South America; Peru and Bolivia, 
