DESCRIPTION OF A SUPPOSED NEW SPECIES OF ODONTOPHORUS 

 FROM SOUTHERN MEXICO, 



nv 

 Robert Ridgway, 



Curator of the Department of Birds. 

 ODONTOPHORUS CONSOBRINUS, sj). iiov. 



Sp. Char. — Most like O. guttatnH itim\i\,h\\i muoh darker and richer 

 in fieneral coloration, and diftcrin^' i)ositively in entire absence of any 

 bull' or tawny color in the crest. 



Adult female (ty]»e, No. 44732, Mirador, Vera Cruz, Mexico, April 

 5; Florentin Haitorius): Pileuni, inclndinj? entire crest and underlying- 

 feathers of occii)ut, uniform l)ro\\ nish bhick, fading to sepia-brown on 

 forehead; sui^erciliary and supra-auricular regions lighter sepia or 

 bister-brown; ear coverts dark cliocolate-brown, approaching black 

 along the upi)er margin; continued from this dark auricular patch, 

 down sides of neck, a bioad stripe, more or less interrujited, of rich 

 chestnut, mixed with blackish; cheeks .(malar and subauricular re- 

 gions), chin, and throat black, each feather marked with a mesial streak 

 of white, these markings brojider and of guttate form on the subauri- 

 cular region. Hind neck, sides of neck (except as described), and 

 back rather light bister-brown, mixed with olive, indistinctly mottled 

 or vermiculated with dusky, the feathers of tin' back with narrow me- 

 sial streaks ol" btiffy whitisli; inner webs of scai)nlars with most of ex- 

 posed portion black (producing large black spots or blotches), preceded 

 by bars of black and tawny-cliestnnt; outer webs coarsely mottled 

 with olive-grayish and buffy-wliitisli, ;vnd marked with zigzag bars of 

 blackish; prevailing color of wing coverts mummy-brown, varied 

 with zigzag maikings of dusky and occasional transverse spots of 

 black, most of the featheis marked with a terminal small guttate spot 

 of light buff; outer ■^vebs of se(;ondaries dusky, broken by broad bars 

 of mottled russet; tertials mixi'd rusty brown or bright I'usset and 

 dusky, each feather with a iaige and conspicuous subterminal irregu- 

 lar lunule of bla(;k, the tip marked with a deltoid spot of dee]) butf; 

 juimaries dusky, their outer webs indistinctly flecked along the margin 

 with buflfy. Lower back light buffy olive-brown, indistinctly mottled 

 with darker and with occasioiijil small si)ots or flecks of black; rumj) 

 similar, but rather darker, with more distinct dusky vermiculations; 

 upper tail coverts with the same features still more pronounced. Tail 



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( I'rofe«'iling8 National Museuin, ^'ol. XVI — Ko. 945.] 



