524 BIRDS FRO:\r NICAKAOUA and COSTA UK a RICHMOND. 



Oil one occasion I lircd into a t I'cc o\er a do/cn times while a small 

 Hock of these birds were feedinu in it. They remained throughout the 

 disturbance, chicking" to one another occasionally, as if uncertain as to 

 the i»ropriety of remaining. At other times [ liave noticed them ex- 

 hibit undue haste in retreating from vi(nv% but ordinarily they are niod- 

 eiately tame. 



237. Crax globicera Liiiii. 



Rather common. Observed on the llio l''rio and on the Escondido. 

 It is often kept in cai)tivity. A iine male on the Magnoliai plantation 

 was verj' tame, and answered to the name of "Tonie." One of Touie's 

 l)eculiarities was an abhorence of women. The moment a dress ap- 

 peared on the ])lantation he. began to show great distress, uttering his 

 low, i)laiutive whistle, and running after the object of his wrath, with 

 body leaning forward and almost brushing the ground, head thrown 

 back, and tail raised, giving him a. laughable api^earance. After pick- 

 ing at the offending dress and following its wearer about for a time, 

 Touie would quiet down a bit, but would continue to sulk and utter 

 his note of complaint until the cause of the trouble had departed. This 

 bird raised its crest when excited, or when its curiosity was aroused, 

 but on other occasions kept it depressed. 



Iris dark brown; cere Nai)les yellow. 



Family PEKDIGID^. 

 238. Odontophorus melanotis Salv. 



A flock of over a dozen was observed in the forest on the Escondido. 

 When a])proached the birds flew into the surrounding trees and aftei- 

 wards oft" into the woods, two or three at a tinu^. Two were secured. 



239. Odontophorus spodiostethns Salv. 



One S])ecimen. It was one of a pair found running in a ])ath in the 

 woods on the l^jscondido. h\)llo\vingis a. description of this bird, which 

 has been compared with a si)ecimeu from Panama, belonging to the 

 American Museum of Natural History : 



Pileum and cervix sepia, edged with mummy brown, some of the 

 feathers with slender shaft-streaks of butf ; a line of feathers on sides of 

 head bordering superciliary stripe tipped Avith line, tear-shaped bull' 

 spots, edged with blackish, these feathers most numerous and markings 

 largest Just above, and ])osteiior to, black auricular jnarks; interscapn- 

 lar region, including sides of neck, dark gray, broadly edged or bor- 

 dered with light chestnut ; this is followed posteriorly and on thes(,'apu- 

 lars by light olive-brown, the feathers for the most i)art faintly and 

 almost imperceptibly vermiculated with a darker shade, having slender 

 buft" shaft-streaks, and usually the innei- web black, with deep chest- 

 nut mottlings. Back, rnmp, and upper-tail coverts light olive, au occa- 

 sional feather with a narrow black shaft-streak; the feathers minutely 



